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Regulators and labor groups around the world have been pushing hard for higher pay and worker protections in the gig economy. But in Califor...

What does it take for a design to be truly sustainable? For such an oft-used concept associated with earth-friendly fashion, furniture, or a...

Cryptocurrencies have had a glitzy run in recent months. But is all that glitters really gold?Since the spread of Covid-19 in India, bitcoin...

Digital streaming platforms have had a dream run in India. But that might soon change.The Indian government yesterday (Nov. 11) announced th...

Chinese companies are using an ingenious trick to navigate the rising anti-China sentiment in India.Several Chinese manufacturers have switc...

A recent spate of deportations of African asylum seekers from the US in the last weeks of the Trump administration has attracted widespread...

Every four or eight years the US elects a new president who holds a different view of the transatlantic relationship than his predecessor—an...

Joe Biden is set to win Georgia in the 2020 US presidential election. It appears he will beat Donald Trump by a razor thin margin of a littl...

Earlier this year, Doug Emhoff was defending movie studios in court. Now he’s America’s first “second gentleman,” thanks to his wife, US vic...

In response to Covid-19 outbreaks across the continent, Jumia—the largest pan-African e-commerce operator, made a shift in its business mode...

Two months ago, TikTok appeared to be on the verge of being absorbed into a new US-based company partly owned by Oracle and Walmart, a deal...

Hurricanes’ fury is fueled by warm water. As storms barrel toward the coast, ocean water pumps them full of moisture like a tank filling wit...

At this point in the Covid-19 vaccine race, Pfizer and BioNTech appear to be the front runners. On Monday (Nov. 9), Pfizer said early result...

For years, China came at Hong Kong’s opposition politicians in roundabout ways to maintain a facade of legitimacy. Now the gloves are entire...

India’s largest IT services firm is making an acquisition at a price that isn’t enough to even buy a Starbucks coffee.On Monday (Nov. 9), Ta...

What would happen if Google were forced to sell off Chrome?As the tech giant faces mounting antitrust scrutiny in the US, federal and state...

The $100 billion Softbank Vision Fund (SVF) chose to opt-out of investing in Mukesh Ambani’s new tech arm Jio Platforms and retail business...

India’s mobile payment space has turned into an intense battleground with big global tech players like Google, Amazon, Walmart, and Facebook...

On Nov. 9, American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and partner BioNTech announced an interim analysis of late-stage trials of their coronavirus...

Mukesh Ambani tops many coveted rankings. He’s Asia’s richest man, India’s wealthiest person by a mile, the chairman of the company that own...

India has managed to navigate the risk of a potential monopoly by restricting WhatsApp’s newly-launched digital payments feature. And this m...

Pfizer and BioNTech’s announcement of preliminary efficacy results for their Covid-19 vaccine candidate is a tiny speck of light at the end...

US economic fortunes have been influencing presidential outcomes since the times of George Washington. Over the past two and a half centurie...

Chatter among fashion followers went into overdrive yesterday when VF Corp.—owner of brands such as Vans, The North Face, Timberland, and Di...

You win some, and you lose some.Hedge funds that bet on stocks to decline—known as a short sale—are recalibrating after news emerged yesterd...