Amazon.com Inc. on Thursday said that Alexa, its increasingly popular digital aide that shoppers command by voice, is now programmed to handle a range of tedious office tasks, Reuters reports. Busines ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-01
Missouri’s attorney general said his office will investigate whether Alphabet Inc.’s Google violated the state’s consumer protection and antitrust laws. Josh Hawley, a Republican seeking to unseat Dem ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-14
The smashing success of Tencent's e-book unit China Literature (00772.HK), which saw its shares surge more than 80 percent on their first day of trading on Wednesday, is expected to encourage more tec ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-09
The major futures exchanges believe in the development of cryptocurrency trading and will push on with launching exchange traded funds that allow investors to trade in them, Reuters reports, citing th ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-08
Chief Executive Carrie Lam has enjoyed a much higher rating than her predecessor, Leung Chun-ying, as she showed her capability to push forward policies such as special funding for the education secto ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-31
Every time China’s ruling Communist Party convenes a major gathering, like the congress that just ended in Beijing, the list of delegates is hand-crafted in part to burnish the party’s image as “repre ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-26
The Trump administration will temporarily delay the processing of most refugees from 11 countries deemed to be high-risk while resuming refugee admissions for other countries, government officials sai ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-25
Apple Inc. sees its mobile devices as a major platform for artificial intelligence in the future, Reuters reports, citing chief operating officer Jeff Williams. Later this week, Apple is set to begin ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-24
Two wealthy regions of northern Italy voted overwhelmingly for greater autonomy in referendums that could fan regional tensions in Europe at a time when Spain is striving to prevent Catalonia from bre ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-23
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling bloc scored a big win in Sunday’s election, bolstering his chance of becoming the nation’s longest-serving premier and re-energizing his push to revise the ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-23
Kazuo Ishiguro, the British author of The Remains of the Day, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for a run of “exquisite” novels that the award body said mixed Franz Kafka with Jane Austen ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-06
Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock wired US$100,000 to an account in the Philippines, his girlfriend’s home country, days before he committed the worst mass shooting in modern US history, NBC News repo ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-04
Advocates of Hong Kong independence are intolerable, Zhang Xiaoming said last week on his first day as director of the State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office in Beijing. “What is Hong Kong ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-03
Uber’s new global boss Dara Khosrowshahi will meet London’s transport regulator on Tuesday in the taxi hailing app’s bid to keep its license in one of its most important foreign markets, Reuters repor ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-03
The secessionist leader of Catalonia called for international mediation on Monday in the region’s dispute with Madrid, a day after hundreds of people were hurt as police swung truncheons and fired rub ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-03
The White House ruled out talks with North Korea except to discuss the fate of Americans held there, again appearing to rebuke Secretary of State Rex Tillerson who said Washington was directly communi ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-03
The other day I was talking with a taxi driver. “I’ve sent my cab to the repair shop, and the manager of the shop recommended HengTen Networks Group (00136.HK). But I don’t have the guts to buy those ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-19
Hamas has agreed to dissolve the administration that runs Gaza, a major step towards handing control of the enclave to a Palestinian unity government after a decade of bitter rivalry with President Ma ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-18
