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...A former mid-level manager attributed the frequent course corrections to Li’s preoccupation with technology rather than making money....
...Jack Ma’s push for funds Jack Ma’s Ant Group is moving forward with plans to raise capital for its lending arm after a major state-owned asset manager pulled out of an earlier fundraising deal in January...
...Masayoshi Son, the chairman of SoftBank, has been side by side with Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, over the past two decades since he started the company....
...James KyngeRui Ma is a US investor with many years of experience working and watching Chinese tech....
...say I’m a lawyer who works for the Department of Justice....
...As always you can reach me at sid.v@ft.com. Thanks for reading....
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...Congratulations go to the overall winner, Atul Arya of Newton, MA....
...Next week we spend the whole episode on the likely repeal of Roe v Wade and the right to abortion in America....
...as a growing number of employers, led by government departments and state firms, now say they prefer to hire party members....
...The relationship among the Big Tech giants is reminiscent of that, writes Rana Foroohar as the US Department of Justice takes on the antitrust case of our time, analysed in our weekend Big Read....
...Almost two-thirds of Russians are unwilling to receive the Sputnik V vaccine and about the same number believe Covid-19 was created as a biological weapon, a pollster said on Monday....
...Halfords is doing well out of the Saturday announcement from the Department of Transport that the government will try to support bikes and possibly e-scooters, legislation depending....
...“[Due to] the trade war, China’s government and its big tech companies have realised it needs to push the development of its own domestic open-source ecosystem,” says Mark Ma, chief executive of Open Source...
...And he ordered the commerce department to add it to the so-called entity list, which makes it harder for US companies to provide hardware and software to the Chinese group....
...Taiwan supporters in Washington are also lobbying to reduce the role of the state department, which has weighed in against sales of big-ticket items or discouraged the Taiwanese government from requesting...
...When Chinese tourists reach the UK, there is a dearth of original, innovative domestic marketing, according to Arnold Ma, chief executive of Chinese digital marketing agency Qumin, in London....
...(FT) New York Times v South China Morning Post The New York Times probes the revival of the South China Morning Post under the ownership of Jack Ma’s Alibaba....
...Sceptics are going to remain sceptics for a while “The market judges,” said Morris DeFeo, co-chair of the corporate department of the law firm Herrick Feinstein. “It is just one day....
...Twice, the “other department” men tried to stitch me up for spying. They tried to accuse me of spying in the restive Muslim region of Xinjiang....
...The tie-dyed crowd see the department’s intransigence as a rejection of their values, in favour of events organised by corporations....
...So you don’t have to study economics very long to figure out that we have to look at markets outside the borders of the United States,” says Greg Ibach, director of the Nebraska Department of Agriculture...
...His first curatorial role at the V&A was in the East Asia department, where he began to introduce examples of fashion into the collection....
...Almost exactly a year ago, Jack Ma was setting out on an investor roadshow for the world’s largest initial public offering: the New York listing of shares in Alibaba, which raised $25bn for his Chinese ecommerce...
...“With the joint diligent efforts of all government departments and administrative regions, these two areas of risk were successfully defused.”...
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