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While we were enjoying our Thanksgiving holiday, folks in Hong Kong were celebrating too. But the jubilation there was the result of several seemingly disparate events.  What went down in Hong Kong this week is pretty amazing and worth digging into, as it mi…

Fans with smartphones at an outdoor concert. Ericsson With 5G networks expected to carry almost half of the worlds mobile data traffic by 2025, the Middle East and Africa is expected to have the highest growth rate in the next six years, according to resear…

Alibaba Group Holding, returning to Hong Kong's stock market this week after a five-year wait, considers the city a cornerstone of its strategy to globalise and prosper across three centuries, according to its chairman. This week's successful US$13 billion i…

ANYONE WHO is cursed with a rational mind should ponder Alibabas faith in eight, the luckiest single digit in China. On November 26th Chinas e-commerce juggernaut sold HK$88bn ($11.2bn) of secondary shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock symbo…

Aiming to strengthen its foothold in the region's growing mobile internet markets, Jack Ma's Ant Financial Services plans to raise close to $1 billion in funding for India and Southeast Asia-based startups, according to a report in Bloomberg. The Alibaba-aff…

ANYONE WHO is cursed with a rational mind should ponder Alibabas faith in eight, the luckiest single digit in China. On November 26th Chinas e-commerce juggernaut sold HK$88bn ($11.2bn) of secondary shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock symbo…

HONG KONG (AP) Chinese e-commerce giant Alibabas shares jumped more than 8% in their debut on the Hong Kong stock exchange on Tuesday, an auspicious start at a time when the former British colony is reeling from political unrest. By mid-afternoon Tuesday, Al…

HONG KONG (AP) Chinese e-commerce giant Alibabas shares jumped more than 8% in their debut on the Hong Kong stock exchange on Tuesday, an auspicious start at a time when the former British colony is reeling from political unrest. By mid-afternoon Tuesday, Al…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin HONG KONG, CHINA - NOVEMBER 26: Daniel Zhang Yong (C), Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group, Joseph... Tsai (3rd R), executive vice chairman and co-founder of the Alibaba…

Daniel Zhang, center, applauds during Alibaba’s listing ceremony in Hong Kong, Nov. 26. (Bloomberg: Paul Yeung) Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. rose 7.7% in its Hong Kong debut, capping a landmark share sale that unfolded during violent anti-government protests. …