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...It’s too dangerous,” Gina Raimondo, the US commerce secretary, has said, explaining the establishment of an AI Safety Institute....
...SK E&S, the group’s energy unit, will open a New York office headed by vice-chair Yu Jeong-joon in 2022 after taking over several US energy companies in recent years....
...According to research conducted by Google, Temasek Holdings and Bain & Co, about half of south-east Asia’s nearly 400m adults do not have a bank account....
...That has played havoc with strategic plans, including nixing its e-commerce unit. Nascent direct sales channels have failed to take up the slack....
...But a confluence of factors — the 2008 financial crisis, the decline of brick-and-mortar, the casualisation of fashion and the rise of e-commerce — created a perfect storm that few have been able to weather...
...The planned listing is a rare example of a German technology IPO focused on software rather than e-commerce....
...This month it sold an 11 per cent stake in Flipkart, an Indian e-commerce platform, raising a further $1.6bn....
...It has pursued rapid growth via acquisitions and by moving into so called “q-commerce” — the delivery of groceries and household staples....
...In addition to strong Uniqlo performance in Asia, the company saw e-commerce sales in Japan and China increase 30 per cent from a year earlier during the fiscal first half period....
...Minerals Nick Barton CEO, Birmingham Airport Ian Proctor, CEO Sky Betting & Gaming Professor Juergen Maier CEO, Siemens UK James Harris Director, UK and Europe, Mott MacDonald Lorna Fitzsimons Co-Founder...
...Metro Bank was his attempt to transfer the Commerce model to the UK, replicating Commerce’s focus on customer service....
...But the social media network is facing a series of challenges as it prepares to enter the e-commerce field....
...Along similar lines, sectors that have been most impacted over the past two days include food retailing, airlines, e-commerce, Macau gaming, restaurants and education....
...Even bank transfers, now done easily via smartphones, are set to overtake credit cards as China’s second most popular payment option by 2021, when the country’s e-commerce market will be worth an estimated...
...Authorities are preparing to issue digital banking licences in the coming weeks to six companies including internet and gaming group Tencent, Ant Financial, the payments business of e-commerce giant Alibaba...
...Dangdang only accounted for 0.46 per cent of China’s business-to-consumer online retail sales in 2017, according to China E-Commerce Research Center, a Hangzhou-based think-tank....
...Much of that is comprised of e-commerce purchases of foreign food brands, suggesting multinationals can benefit by bringing their overseas products to China more quickly....
...ZhongAn’s bestselling policy reimburses online shoppers for the cost of returning an unwanted item on Alibaba’s e-commerce platform....
...Huabei, meaning “just spend”, the credit service integrated into Alibaba’s e-commerce platforms, promises that “with no money in your balance, you can still buy, buy, buy”....
...Its deal to buy a majority shareholding in Flipkart pits it directly against Amazon, which is investing $5bn to become India’s largest e-commerce business....
...LeEco sold an 18 per cent stake in Hong Kong-listed telecommunications equipment company Coolpad to fund the $103.2m repayment, with LeEco’s e-commerce subsidiary LeMall transferring another 929 million...
...Separately on Monday, a consortium led by Tencent and e-commerce company JD.com together with property developer Sunac and retail company Suning said it had collectively taken a 14 per cent equity stake...
...Meanwhile, Associated British Foods is continuing to prove that e-commerce needn’t be so important....
...A consortium led by Tencent and e-commerce company JD.com together with property developer Sunac and retail company Suning have collectively taken a 14 per cent equity stake in Wanda’s main subsidiary, Dalian...
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