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It may not have been a surprise, but US president Donald Trump’s veto of Lattice Semiconductor’s sale of itself to US-based and China-funded private-equity firm Canyon Bridge Capital Partners likely still comes as a shock to China’s ambitions for tech acquisitions in the US. On Sept. 13, the White House announced that the president was […]Read More

If we examine India’s current development strategy, including the Make in India initiative, it is implicitly oriented towards replicating the Chinese growth story. China’s spectacular growth record is seen as a validation of the investment- and export-led model successfully pursued earlier by some of the east Asian economies, with a focus on low-cost labour-intensive manufacturing. […]

Britain’s chancellor threw a lifeline to the financial services sector last night (Sept. 13) in a speech that suggests that the industry could get special treatment after Brexit. It’s a big deal for the City, after all, dozens of banks and businesses have been vocal about how they are looking to relocate or expand operations […]

India is finally getting ready for a bullet train. The country, used to its creaky behemoth called Indian Railways, has for long been fascinated by the high-speed Japanese trains. It was even part of Narendra Modi’s electoral promise in the run up to the 2014 national polls. On Sept. 14, Japanese prime minister (PM) Shinzo […]

The Winter Olympics are a time for athletes from around the world to show off their athletic prowess. They might also be a time for North Korea to demonstrate the strength and dexterity of its rapidly advancing weapons. It’s become clear of late that Pyongyang times its missile launches and other tests to increase the […]

Google, the world’s biggest web search engine, is up to something in India. In an ambiguously-worded media invite for a press conference, the tech giant said it would, on Sept. 18, announce, “the launch of a new product developed grounds-up for India.” It refused to reveal anything more. To an email query from Quartz, company […]

Chris Concannon’s career in electronic markets has spanned just about every role, from Securities and Exchange Commission attorney to executive positions at the world’s biggest stock exchanges and at trading firm Virtu Financial. Now, the chief operating officer of CBOE Holdings, which owns Chicago Board Options Exchange, is diving into cryptoassets. It was only a […]

It’s not just people. A company’s culture can be discerned from even inanimate elements like the office halls, walls, pillars, walkways, and boardrooms. For instance, earlier this year, when Uber sought to give itself an image makeover. Among other things, it symbolically renamed its conference hall the Peace Room, in place of the earlier War […]

I lost count of how many times I was welcomed to the donut. Between getting out of my taxi, walking to the front gate of Apple’s visitor check-in, walking up the hill in Apple Park between its new campus and the edge of the land it owns, walking around the Steve Jobs Theater at the […]

The uneasy relationship between the US Republican party and the Donald Trump White House is under increasing strain this month. Congress must pass a do-or-die schedule of bills to keep the federal government funded and supply aid to hurricane victims. But Trump gave Republicans a slap in the face last week by agreeing to a […]

New York Fashion Week and China are cozying up to each other, thanks to a new partnership between NYFW: The Shows, which is the part of NYFW managed by entertainment giant IMG, and China’s largest e-commerce company, Alibaba. The deal will introduce New York labels to a giant new Chinese audience, while also increasing the […]

During the 2016 US presidential election, Donald Trump galvanized a small but powerfully vicious fan base in his campaign against Hillary Clinton. Ten months after Clinton was defeated, things are getting nasty again. What Happened, Clinton’s book about how she lost the election, came out on Sept. 12. Critical reviews have been mixed, with equal […]