Alibaba Pictures Group announced Friday that it lost 151.8 million Yuan ($24 million) in the first half of 2015. The loss is due to the transformation the company is undergoing. According to the company, most of its projects are still under the investment stage, and its profit is not yet included in the revenue report of the period.
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China-based Internet entrepreneurs back Tesla rival NextEV
A group of wealthy internet entrepreneurs and investors in China are putting their money on NextEV, a rival to U.S. electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors Inc.
Jet rivals Amazon with $225M equity funding, the largest ever among U.S. e-commerce sites
E-commerce startup Jet.com which was launched on July 31 had raised $225M only by this month. The new company was valued $600M and is now competing with Amazon.com.
As long as China economy is under pressure, bearishness for copper likely
Copper price slipped below $2.40/lb (1lb=453.59265gm), a key support level, and was trading at $2.3260. With the $2.4 level becoming the key resistance level, the copper price needs to break this level to gain upward movement.
Minecraft creator expressed existential meltdown on Twitter, feeling unmotivated, isolated
In just 135 characters, Minecraft creator Markuss Persson has expressed his feelings of existential meltdown on Twitter Saturday:
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Retailers are experiencing a mixed season, so are the department stores. Not a lot of consumers are going in hoards to spend their money in department stores. It may be due to this year's later Labor Day, or maybe they'd rather be in the beach than shopping in the malls.
Disney's plans to push Star Wars merchandise with such great force is headed certainly headed to success. Last year, Frozen merchandise sales brought Disney massive success, giving its segment revenue a double-digit growth. But Star Wars merchandise won't be the same as Frozen, because of the demographics.
The crisis-hit European nation Greece is heading towards privatization of its energy sector. The country is also in favor of reforms in several sectors to give a new life to the ailing economy.
Walmart reduces working hours on some of its outlets. Allegedly, the action is intended to compensate for the higher wages it pays employees.
Women are treated as administrative staff by default in the corporate setting. This gender bias is sadly still present in many companies all over the globe. Women are sill asked to make coffee and take down notes, even if this is not part of their job description. This is something that should be remedied.
In an open letter, T-Mobile chief executive John Legere warns the 3,000 users stealing LTE tethered data that the company will go after them beginning August 31.
The US stocks turn attractive on lower PE ratios. The latest market crash might have eroded $2.1 trillion value in the market capitalization in the US stock markets, but equities are no more overpriced as price-to-earnings (PE) ratios turn attractive. According to ConvergEx, after the recent 10 percent drop in the US markets, no one can say that American stocks are expensive.
The marginal rise in Chinese currency Yuan on Monday is believed to be the extended support by the central bank of the world's second largest economy.
The oil price surged to one-month high at $47.31 a barrel on New York Mercantile Exchange (NYME). Oil futures reached $48.09 indicating its highest since 31 July. The rebound in oil prices was mainly due to two factors.
