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Canadas prime minister Justin Trudeau at a press conference in Toronto in January 2016 Cole Burston / Bloomberg / Getty The media love Canadas prime minister, Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC), who won the federal election in Octob…

In the history of the world, no economy has made as big of a leap in such a short time as China's has in the last generation. A nation of over 1 billion people that not so long ago relied on the bicycle as its primary form of transportation is…

New Delhi: US retail giant Walmart is Indias top retailer, according to a study by Euromonitor International tracking Asias largest retailers. Walmart topped the rankings in India for 2018, after it acquired internet retailer Flipkart last year in a $16 bill…

Some of the world’s most successful tech moguls have a fairly modest taste when it comes to picking cars to drive. In fact, the world’s richest man, the CEO and founder of Amazon – Jeff Bezos – was seen driving a Honda Accord as recently as 2013. With this …

Working with Mr. Wonderful sounds pretty terrible if youre someone who values setting boundaries between your professional and personal life, anyway. Shark Tank personality Kevin OLeary told the CNBC site Make It that he works while on vacation, and he expec…

James Zhu knew the time had come to join Fanli as full-time chief operating officer in 2010, when the Shanghai-based startup first began to raise money. At the time, Fanli was an online shopping rebates service cofounded by an acquaintance, Gary Ge Yongchang,…

Billionaires like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet CEO Larry Page can afford to drive any car they want. While some of them have splurged on Teslas and Paganis, other high-end rides, others have chosen to stick to Ford pickup…

In the eyes of "Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary, work knows no bounds even during vacation. "I don't have a division anymore between vacation time and work. It's always both," O'Leary tells CNBC Make It. "I work every day." And that rule also applies to hi…

San Francisco and Lagos based fintech startup Flutterwave has partnered with Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba to offer digital payments between Alipay and African merchants. Flutterwave is a Nigerian founded B2B payments service (primarily) for companies i…

Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images The crypto whiz kid who paid $4.6 million to have lunch with Warren Buffett and invited Donald Trump to join them could permanently cancel the meal under pressure from the Chinese government, says a host of CNBC Africa's C…