Last week, I mentioned two startups -- Tink Labs and WeWork -- that either crashed or suffered major setbacks last year. Let us now take a look at Airbnb, the home-sharing rental startup that plans to ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-20
... nd bigotry. Most, however, were celebrating the president’s tax cuts for billionaires and corporations and looking forward to his efforts to deregulate the economy. That would allow businesses to poll ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-20
... rs reports. “We are trying to read the black boxes here in Iran. Otherwise, our options are Ukraine and France, but no decision has been taken so far to send them to another country,” Hassan Rezaifar, ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-20
Recently, I traveled to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Learning that I had come from Hong Kong, the first thing a cab driver there asked me was: is the unrest now under control? Some other ethnic Chinese cab ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
Hurlyburly is a children's game. Or a drinking game, some might argue.That sounds rather extreme, but I'm sure it works in both situations. It is a dexterity game about building towers and using catap ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
... for Taiwan. “We don't have a need to declare ourselves an independent state,” Tsai said in the BBC interview. “We are an independent country already and we call ourselves the Republic of China (Taiwan ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
... nwarranted. If anyone needs to apologize, it is the "rioters", Chris Tang Ping-keung said on Thursday, as he rejected accusations of police brutality and reiterated that the force had been the target ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
The Fitbit on your wrist not only counts your steps and minutes of sleep, it can also help tell if you’re coming down with the flu – and warn health authorities to get ready to help. A study in the Un ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
At the start of a new decade, many commentators are understandably focused on the health of the global economy. Gross domestic product growth this decade most likely will be lower than during the teen ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
Microsoft Corp. has set a new ambition among Fortune 500 companies in addressing climate change, pledging to remove as much carbon as it has emitted in its 45-year history, Reuters reports. The focus ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
A second person has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan following an outbreak of a previously unknown virus, Reuters reports, citing local health authorities. The 69-year-old man ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
... r for life. The State Duma, the lower house of parliament, on Thursday gave its backing to Mikhail Mishustin, a 53-year-old with almost no political profile, endorsing his nomination with 383 votes of ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
... rs reports. The assessment from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) was a setback for Trump, but it was unclear if it would figure in his trial in the Republican-led Senate given th ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-17
... as "riots". The squabbles over the nature of the social unrest won't end anytime soon. If you ask me, both those labels -- “resistance”, "riots” -- are not truly reflective of what is really going on ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-16
... US exports. The agreement, meant to reduce tensions after nearly two years of a tit-for-tat tariff war, included a pledge by China to purchase at least an additional US$12.5 billion worth of agricultu ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-16
... rs reports. In an emailed statement, Hironaka said that everyone involved in the case at his practice had resigned. A spokeswoman there declined to give a reason. A second lawyer in Ghosn’s three-pers ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-16
... heir homes. Some residents took advantage of what they perceived as a lull in the activity of Taal, one of country’s most active and deadliest volcanoes, to return home even though a 14-kilometer (nin ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-16
... nald Trump. The Democratic-led House voted earlier in the day to send the two formal charges against Trump to the Senate, clearing the way for only the third impeachment trial of a US president to beg ...More
EJ Insight2020-01-16
