Elon Musk’s SpaceX, fresh off the successful launch this month of the world’s most powerful rocket, won an endorsement from the top US communications regulator to build a broadband network using satel ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-15
Instacart, a US-based grocery delivery services startup, has raised US$200 million in fresh funds as it seeks to expand its operations and take on e-commerce behemoth Amazon in the fast-growing busine ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-14
Before the Year of the Rooster ends, it is good to review what we have accomplished so far and to plan ahead for the coming year. Three years ago, 20 people from different professional fields gathered ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-14
Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn Group plans to use proceeds from a Shanghai listing of one of its subsidiaries to fund eight projects totaling 27.3 billion yuan (US$4 billion), Reuters reports. In ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-13
China's Fosun group is set to acquire a majority stake in struggling French fashion house Lanvin, Reuters reports, citing sources familiar with the matter. Fosun, which owns French leisure group Club ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-13
A Public Inquiry establishes the facts, identifies those responsible for wrongdoing and makes recommendations with the aim of preventing or limiting a recurrence. To ensure that the public is assured ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-13
Israel-based OurCrowd has emerged as a key crowdfunding platform for accredited investors. Since its launch in 2013, the platform helped raise over US$650 million for 145 startups and some funds. In a ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-12
Terry Gou, the billionaire chief of Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn, is said to have invested in a cryptocurrency merchant bank being set up by Mike Novogratz, a former Wall Street macro hedge fun ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-09
Cryptocurrency is the topic of the day but what is really interesting is the technology behind the mania - blockchain. The decentralized and secure digital ledger of transactions is starting to be app ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-07
A rout in global equities deepened in Asia on Tuesday as inflation worries gripped financial markets, sending US stock futures sinking further into the red after Wall Street suffered its biggest decli ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-06
Rumors had been doing the rounds that e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com were competing against each other to acquire stake in Chinese menswear group Heilan Home Co. There were reports that Alibaba ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-06
A US judge refused to release a former Hong Kong government official on bail while he faces charges that he took part in a scheme to bribe officials in Chad and Uganda in exchange for contracts for a ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-06
Broadcom Ltd. made a US$121 billion “best and final offer” to acquire Qualcomm Inc., ratcheting up pressure on its US semiconductor peer to engage in talks on what would be the biggest ever technology ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-06
Despite a rough start in 2018, cryptocurrencies are continuing to draw hordes of new investors in many parts of the world, thanks to the record surge of bitcoin and other virtual units last year. Some ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-05
The head of the world’s biggest private equity firm paid tribute to Masayoshi Son, founder and chief executive of SoftBank Group Corp., for his investments in the field of technology. On a conference ...More
EJ Insight2018-02-02
