Alibaba 阿里巴巴 Under scrutiny 一审再审 American regulators are investigating China's e-commerce giant 美国监管机构正调查中国电商巨头 WE HAVE from time to time been subject to PRC and foreign government inquiries and investiga...
Yusuf Alireza unexpectedly quit as chief executive of Noble Group, Asia's biggest commodities-trading firm. Noble, which is based in Hong Kong, has been hit by the slump in commodity prices and faces allegations from a research outfit that it oversta...
Yusuf Alireza unexpectedly quit as chief executive of Noble Group, Asia's biggest commodities-trading firm. Noble, which is based in Hong Kong, has been hit by the slump in commodity prices and faces allegations from a research outfit that it oversta...
In its latest twice-yearly global assessment, the OECD warned that the world economy is stuckin a low-growth trap. The organisation said monetary policy alone could no longer be relied on to deliver growth and governments should be using the fiscal t...
A bill that would help Puerto Rico manage its $70 billion debt pile was introduced in Congress. The legislation would set up a financial control board and restructure some debt. It has bipartisan support, but is opposed by some of the American territ...
Cuba's Communist government said it would legalize small and medium-sized enterprises. That builds on earlier reforms, which allow self-employed Cubans to own restaurants, bed-and-breakfasts and other small businesses. 古巴共和党宣布,承认本...
Politics this week 本周政治要闻 Alexander Van der Bellen, a former head of the Green party, won Austria's presidential election by just 31,000 votes, defeating Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party. Had he won this post, Mr. Hofer would have been...
A self-professed introvert, which is fitting for a company that sells itself on textual communication, he values efficiency and candour. After Yahoo bought Flickr, he worked there for a few years. Everything was horrible, ugly, slow, difficult to use...
A survey of users, admittedly conducted by the firm itself, suggests that team productivity increases by around a third when they start using the software, primarily by reducing internal e-mail and meetings. Slack has decided to open itself up to oth...
Business Office communication The Slack generation How workplace messaging could replace other missives 商业报道 办公通讯 Slack一代 职场通讯工具如何取代其他沟通形式 STEWART BUTTERFIELD, the boss of Slack, a messaging company...