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Former presidential advisor and right-wing pundit Steve Bannon had his show suspended from Twitter and an episode removed by YouTube after calling for violence against FBI director Christopher Wray and the government’s leading pandemic expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Bannon, speaking with co-host Jack Maxey, was discussing what Trump should do…

(Variety) Losses narrowed at the digital entertainment and media activities of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba in the second quarter of its financial year. Results at group level underline how far the China has already recovered since the COVID-19 pandemic and how far the rebound has favored the digital economy.Alibaba reported a…

A Meituan food delivery driver picks up an order on Oct. 19, 2019 in Beijing. (Image credit: TechNode/Coco Gao) Chinese food delivery giant Meituan is mulling a secondary listing on the mainland. Alibaba is planning to invest $300 million in Farfetch, the UK-based online luxury retailer that has been expanding…

Wang HE/Getty Images Jack Ma lost about $3 billion of his wealth on Tuesday after it was revealed that the Ant Group IPO would be delayed.Regulators in Shanghai and Hong Kong have suspended the highly anticipated IPO, which attracted $3 trillion in bids and was set to be the largest…

The regulatory changes likely refer to new microlending restrictions, announced earlier yesterday by The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) and the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC). Sources told Reuters that regulators had told Ant “to properly comply with the new micro-lending rules.” These regulations were expected to “severely hurt” the…

(Image credit: Ant Group) Ant Group’s suspended $34 billion dual listings in Shanghai and Hong Kong may have resulted from a combination of regulators’ increased intolerance for risk alongside recent bold statements from Jack Ma, the founder of parent company Alibaba Group. Here’s what sources told TechNode. The sequence of…

HONG KONG: China suspended Ant Group's $37 billion stock market listing on Tuesday, thwarting the world's largest IPO with just days to go in a dramatic blow to the financial technology company founded by billionaire Jack Ma. The Shanghai stock exchange announced that it had suspended the company's initial public…

It’s time for another of our infamous and patented Care/Don’t Care Podcasts, with your talent: the astounding Eugene S. Robinson of ozy.com and author of “Fight: Everything You Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You’d Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking” and host of the ‘Ozy Confidential’ Podcast,…

Alibaba Group announced on Oct. 27 a partnership with Bravado, Universal Music Group's merchandising and brand management division, to bring iconic artists' merchandise and exclusive collaborations to Chinese consumers. The Bravado store will launch on Tmall Global, the largest cross-border business-to-consumer marketplace in China. It will showcase merchandise from top international…

This might not be the last time we see Anderson Silva fight, but we should savor the moment all the same. It’s an important distinction to make considering that Saturday’s UFC Vegas 12 middleweight main event has been marketed as Silva’s final appearance - at least for the UFC -…