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SOUTH-EAST Asian private equity (PE) deal value fell by over 50 per cent year on year in the first three quarters of 2020 and the brakes were slammed on exits, amid Covid-19 uncertainty. This comes on the back of a thriving 2019 for the region's PE and...

French data privacy watchdog CNIL said on Thursday it had fined Alphabet's Google 100 million euros (US$121 million) for breaching rules on online trackers (cookies).

WASHINGTON / PALO ALTO :Facebook potrebbe essere costretta a vendere le sue preziose app WhatsApp e Instagram dopo le azioni legali avviate ieri dalla Federal Trade Commission(Ftc) e quasi tutti gli Stati Usa con l'accusa di aver usato una strategia "buy or bury" per accaparrarsi i rivali e tenere...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday pledged an additional US$250 million to support the development of low-cost and easier to deliver treatments and vaccines against COVID-19.

:SoftBank Group Corp shares surged 14per cent after the investment conglomerate scored a US$11.2 billion gain in the value of its stake in DoorDash Inc following the U.S. food delivery app's blockbuster stock market debut.

Goldman Sachs Group's asset-management arm will pressure U.S. companies to appoint more women and members of under-represented groups to their boards, an executive said, but will stop short of setting specific numerical targets for racial and ethnic diversity as some activists urge.

BlackRock on Thursday said it would more than double the number of companies it engages with over climate-related issues to over 1,000 and laid out stronger goals on other fronts for portfolio firms ahead of the upcoming shareholder meeting season.

China on Thursday said it had imposed fresh import duties on Australian wine as it accused Canberra of giving firms subsidies, in the latest salvo in a bitter stand-off following last month's swingeing anti-dumping tariffs.

SYDNEY: Australia is seeking to boost demand for its cotton from countries such as Vietnam as tensions with China threaten to leave Canberra with large stockpiles, sources familiar with the plan said on Thursday (Dec 10). In October, Chinese cotton mills were ordered to stop buying Australian ...

S&P Dow Jones Indices said on Thursday it would remove a total of 21 Chinese companies from its equities and bond indices, including Hikvision and SMIC, following a Trump administration order prohibiting purchase of certain Chinese securities by U.S. investors.