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Ant's mega IPO set to turn early investors, employees into billionaires

Ant Chairman Eric Jing's fortune will swell to $2.9 billion, and another 17 current and former Alibaba and Ant executives will join the ranks of billionaires

Why countries like India don't want to wait for superpowers' Covid vaccines

Groups such as the World Health Organization, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance are working to ensure that coverage extends beyond the developed world

TikTok needs free speech arguments to overcome Trump's broad powers to ban

TikTok says that just because its parent, ByteDance Ltd., is based in Beijing, that doesn't exclude the app from being fully protected by the Constitution just like any American company

Why theory on Kamala Harris not eligible as US VP is xenophobic, false

When it comes to constitutional claims, even extreme ones, it's important to explain why they are wrong in order to refute them

First into the coronavirus slump, China is proving the fastest out

An industry-powered rebound is pushing the Asian nation out of the historic first-quarter slump and toward the prospect of being the only major economy to expand this year

Not a good sign: Warren Buffet does away with bank shares, bets on gold

Buffett, the fifth-richest person in the world, has loved few things more in his life than sweets, soda and compound interest - but banking stocks have come pretty close

Covid effect: Worst Indian profits in a decade are beating expert estimates

Analysts have cut the 12-month average profit estimates for Nifty members by 20% since January on concerns about a patchy recovery and climbing virus numbers

Hijacking bankers to catch swindlers won't work, consolidate relationships

The biggest victim is a state-dominated banking system that recoups very little from insolvent companies

Xi makes a political gamble by telling Chinese to clean their plates

This week, Xi rolled out a new push to curb the 'shocking and distressing' problem of discarded leftovers, as he seeks to fortify a fragile food supply strained by floods, epidemics, locusts and trade

Cash-hungry Indian companies are selling shares at record pace

Companies are seeking to prepare themselves for what's forecasted to be the economy's first contraction in four decades

Pepperoni topping gets scarce amid production snags, high demand

Small pizza shops across the US are reporting higher prices and tight supply for their usual pepperoni orders

Crime-tracking app Citizen now alerts users to Covid-19 infection risk

Citizen, known for location-based crime alerts, on Thursday launched a feature called SafePass that it's already calling the largest private contact-tracing network

Covid-19: Even as second wave looms, Europe is opening its nightclubs

Europe doesn't have to face a second round of full draconian lockdowns, which would be disastrous for the economy

Russia's Sputnik coronavirus vaccine gamble is all about Vladimir Putin

Announcing the world's first regulatory approval this week, President Vladimir Putin sought to repeat the propaganda masterstroke

How Israel, UAE and the US will benefit from the historic peace agreement

The first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab nation since 1994 has profound, perdurable implications for both countries - and for the US

TikTok and WeChat expose how US tech giants lack innovation in social media

Despite spending roughly $700 million a year in research and development, the microblogging company's main offering has stayed virtually the same over the past decade

RBI's payout unlikely to plug the huge govt revenue hole created by Covid

Last year the RBI's board approved a record payment of Rs 1.76 trillion ($23.5 billion) to the government, which included Rs 1.23 trillion as dividend and Rs 526.4 billion from its surplus capital

Jan Marsalek added to Interpol's most wanted list, sparking worldwide hunt

The move alerts police worldwide that Germany wants help to track down the former manager as part of the criminal probe into the firm's meltdown

China says frozen chicken wings from Brazil tested positive for Covid

The positive sample appears to have been taken from the surface of the meat, while previously reported positive cases from other Chinese cities have been from the surface of imported frozen seafood

Hyperion says it's developed hydrogen-powered supercar, now it needs money

The supercar will go 1,000 miles before refuelling, the company says