Beijing needs to put away the broad brush and use more finesse in tackling market dominance by its tech giants, or risk destroying its tech-enabled social infrastructure.
Beijing’s pursuit of Ant Group plays directly into the hands of China’s biggest critics in Washington. US authorities are now debating whether to ban investments in Alibaba & Tencent.
Similarities between Yukos debacle in Russia & China's crackdown on Alibaba are striking — 2 political systems led by strongmen with penchant for cutting hubristic entrepreneurs to size.
Alibaba’s smart factory is an attempt at leveraging its consumer data & tech to help multi-trillion-dollar manufacturing arena improving efficiency & meet consumer expectations.
Ant Group stopped taking orders from big investors a day earlier than planned due to great demand. But a smash-hit IPO doesn’t always translate into a long-term winner for investors.
The first shopping center to create a virtual replica of a mall — Marina Square — is taking more than 30 tenants online with Lazada, the Southeast Asian unit of Alibaba.
In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.
IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.
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