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View photos(Bloomberg) -- The coronavirus epidemic is exposing the dichotomy of the world’s second largest tech economy. Chinese businesses like Alibaba and Meituan with outsized footprints in the material world are rushing to contain the fallout while virtual denizens ByteDance Inc. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. ride a surge in social…

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China's tech billionaire Jack Ma has pledged over USD 2 million to support the development of antiviral drugs to combat the new coronavirus which has killed 2,236 people in the country and infected more than 75,000 others.The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the epidemic as a public health emergency.In…

Jack Ma’s advice for Chinese entrepreneurs in the time of coronavirus: retool, reflect and restore work at a steady paceRead More

For Alibaba, Covid-19 isn’t its first encounter with epidemic. This week, TechNode’s translation column looks back at China’s last great epidemic, bringing you the story of how Alibaba launched Taobao during SARS, and how it expanded its online business while its headquarters were quarantined.  This article was translated and abridged…

The Inside the Mind of the CEO interview series explores a wide range of critical decisions faced by chief executives around the world. For more insight, see PwC’s CEO Survey. This interview was conducted in January 2020 by Daniel Gross, executive editor of strategy+business, together with Neil Dhar, financial services industry…

By STEPHEN WADE and MARI YAMAGUCHI TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo Olympic organizers and the International Olympic Committee said Friday there is no “Plan B” for the 2020 Games, which open in just over five months and have been jolted by the outbreak of a virus in neighboring China. The coronavirus…

Sort by Oldest Latest Popular 26 Comments Login to comment gogogo Feb. 15 06:47 am JST Total head in the sand, without a plan B the only option is to cancel. Not allowing Chinese in isn't a solution since the virus has spread from non contact with Chinese people. 9…

The coronavirus has infected almost 64,000 people globally with almost 1,400 deaths in China, but only one in Japan where fear is rising with so much attention focused on the outbreak AP | PTI  |  Tokyo  Last Updated at February 28, 2020 12:31 IST Tokyo Olympic organizers and the International…

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo Olympic organizers and the International Olympic Committee said Friday there is no “Plan B” for the 2020 Games, which open in just over five months and have been jolted by the outbreak of a virus in neighboring China. The coronavirus has infected almost 64,000 people globally…