Jack Ma’s Ant Group Forced to Restructure After China Crackdown
By: City AM April 12, 2021 Ant Group will be restructured as a financial holding company as part of a crackdown by Beijing on billionaire Jack Ma’s Alibaba empire. China’s central bank today said Ant Group had laid out a “comprehensive and feasible restructuring plan” following pressure from regulators. The agreement will […]
A Byte To Eat: will AI Super-Tasters Disrupt Food?
By: The Economist April 9, 2021 A tea bag is an extraordinary thing. Each small sachet contains a mix of leaves from different producers and different places. Hundreds of factors can affect the flavour of each leaf, from the amount of sunlight and rainfall to the type of soil it was grown in, how […]
Google Accused Of Insider Trading Over Secret Digital Ads Programme
By: City AM April 12, 2021 Google has been accused of insider trading in the digital advertising market through its use of a secret programme that allegedly gave it an unfair advantage over rivals. Court documents filed in a Texas lawsuit state the scheme, dubbed Project Bernanke, used access to data about past […]
Crisp Insights into Digital Age ESG Developments – Apr 8, 2021
Trust In Tech Craters In a massive survey of 31,000 people in 27 countries, Edelman has found that favourable views of the tech sector globally dropped six points overall, to 70 (on a scale of 100). This has massive implications for tech companies, in a stakeholder-centric environment. Edelman urges businesses to embrace a […]