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Alibaba announced record sales of more than 158.31 billion yuan (22 billion USD) in the first nine hours of Singles' Day, the world's largest trade event for e-commerce platforms, ahead of the American "Black Friday.
This is a 25% increase...
The California attorney general's office revealed on Wednesday that it has been investigating Facebook's privacy practices for 18 months, accusing the social network of obstructing investigations by refusing to send emails from its CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
This is a new...
The German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has questioned the possibility of the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei participating in the construction and development of the new 5G mobile generation in Germany.
In a meeting with journalists in Berlin on Monday, the...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will formally announce early elections on the 12th of December and dissolve parliament on Wednesday, before holding a Conservative Party campaign meeting in which he will reaffirm his commitment to "Brexit" in the coming...
The trade dispute between Washington and Beijing the two largest economies in the world reduced imports of Chinese products into the United States by 35 billion dollars, or more than a quarter, in the first half of the year,...
During his official visit to China from 4 to 6 November, the French president Emmanuel Macron wants to defend European interests and send a message of European unity to the second largest economy in the world.
Symbolically, a member of...
One after another, Yaatoo and Afrimarket closed shop, showing how difficult it is to create a profitable e-commerce platform on the African continent.
In the African e-commerce market, the culling continues. In September, two companies known to the Ivorian public...
PSA and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) formalized their merger project on Thursday, which should create the fourth largest car manufacturer in the world.
The two groups will also own this new group of about 50 billion dollars (45 billion euros),...
On Friday 25 October, the Green Fund held a conference in Paris because the Green Fund's treasury was empty and had to be filled. Twenty-seven countries took part and mobilized a record $9.8 billion for fighting climate change.
This is...
In the north of Botswana Where the Okavango River gets lost in the sand of the Kalahari is apparently where all Homo sapiens originated from.
We are all Homo sapiens, descended from African ancestors who wandered sometime in history to...