For the first time in its history, financial results were published by French fashion group Chanel this week which showed the credentials of the brand as the largest fashion brand in t world in terms of rale revenues and profit – both of which showed strong growth in 2017. The privately-owned company has always kept…
Harley Davidson and the likes has been excluded in the list of American products that India is planning to impose tariffs on. Apples, walnuts and some chemical and metal products are among the American products that India wants to impose retaliatory tariffs on, the Indian government confirmed this week. The tariffs will take effect on…
Employing more than 1 million people, Foxconn’s export market includes both the United States and China. On Friday, Hon Hai Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, also known as Foxconn, stated the tariff war between the United States and China is more of a tech war than a trade war. This tech war is the…
The prediction of analysts at GBH Insights for Netflix’s share price is $500. This online streaming giant, is taking on all comers in its race toward the top spot in the entertainment industry’s Big Boys Club Bumping up from 400 U.S. dollars previously, surpassing the 490 U.S. dollars that analysts at Goldman Sachs assigned last…
Telenor has said it is contemplating an appeal in the case. Incidentally, in 2016, Norway’s Competition Authority had considered imposing a fine of 906 million Norwegian crowns, but later dropped parts of the case. On Thursday, Norway’s Competition Authority stated it had imposed a fine of $96.3 million (788 million crowns) on Telenor, the country’s…
The move is part of a larger, strategic bipartisan efforts by U.S. lawmakers to rein in collaboration between U.S. tech companies and their Chinese peers, especially in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning which have application in the military. In a bipartisan move, Republican and Democratic lawmakers have asked Alphabet Inc’s Google on…
Xiaomi’s Hong Kong IPO is slated to be one of the biggest tech IPO globally in recent years. According to sources familiar with the matter at hand, Xiaomi plans on raising $6.1 billion from its planned Hong Kong IPO scheduled for launch this week. Xiaomi’s Hong Kong IPO is slated to be one of the…
Hackers stole $31.5 million from Bithumb, the 6th busiest cryptocurrency exchange in the world. According to a notice put up by Bithumb on its website on Wednesday, it has stopped all of its trading activities after it ascertained that “some cryptocurrencies worth about [$31.5 million] 35 billion won has been seized between late yesterday and…
According to CB Insights, Mercari is one of Japan’s two unicorns. On its market debut its market cap touched $7.4 billion. The other unicorn is Preferred Networks Inc, an IT startup. On Tuesday, the share prices of Mercari Inc, a flea market app operator, jumped by 100% in their stock market debut in Tokyo and…
For Google, the investment will benefit in terms of improved analytics and market reach in China, one of Asia’s fastest growing economies. In an effort aimed at expanding its presence in one of Asia’s fastest growing economy, Google is set to invest $550 million in China’s e-commerce firm JD.com. The strategic move is also aimed…
