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American technology company Microsoft Corporation has managed to beat analyst projections. It has become obvious from the earnings that it reports for its second quarter for the year 2020. The company said revenue grew by 14% compared to the same quarter a year earlier, landing at $36.9 billion.Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella stated:“We are innovating across every layer of our differentiated technology stack and leading in key secular areas that are critical to our customers’...

Social platform Little Red Book is seeking a $6 billion valuation. The platform is reportedly in talks with investors to raise between $400 million and $500 million. It’s also worth mentioning that it has the backing of internet giants Alibaba and Tencent holdings.Xiaohongshu which means “little red book” has tried to release its app before now. The startup though has indicated that the app will be available for download to about 300 million users in app stores from July this year. It is also...

Tencent Holdings Ltd. and China UnionPay Co. announced they plan to bring together their mobile codes that users scan to pay for purchases. In that way, the Chinese central bank gets a much larger niche network inside the $27 trillion payments playground.Both companies decided to consolidate their QR code systems so their users will be able to transfer or spend their assets just by using the same smartphone symbols.However, from the companies, they didn’t want to elaborate. The Tencent...

This year was pretty good for one of the most famous world’s billionaires. However, the whole decade seems to finish even better. Take Warren Buffett for example. He is ending the year with a net worth of approximately $89 billion, up around $42 billion since 2010 and making him the seventh-biggest billionaire gainer of the past 10 years. Let it also be known that the Oracle of Omaha never sold any Berkshire Hathaway, and about 98% of his fortune is made up only of the company’s shares.But,...

Tencent, the Chinese technology giant that operates the social media app WeChat, has announced that it is planning to develop a digital currency research group. This research group will have the responsibility of further advancing various blockchain technology research projects. According to fresh reports by iFeng, the company had released an official statement to its employees telling them that it is seeking someone to head the proposed research group.The yet-to-be-established digital...

Over the last decade, specifically after the 2008 global economic recession, chipmakers have emerged as the best performing industry across sectors and regions. The latest industry report shows that the chipmaking industry witnessed a 377% growth in the last 10 years. This is double the growth of the S&P 500 during the same period.This shows that the semiconductor industry remains at the core of this rapidly changing technology. Despite new technologies like AI, blockchain, ML, and others...

While it may not be in the normal scheme of things for fintech companies to make it big within just a few years of operations, fintech startup Nubank has done that. Sources indicate that the Brazilian startup has gone from strength to strength and has become one of the leading forces in the global fintech space due to a few gutsy moves by its CEO David Vélez. It all started when David was reading about how mobile apps were now being used to manage money in a new and different way in China...

Manchester City, the champions of the English Premier League have struck a big deal recently. The owner of Manchester City has agreed to liquidate just over 10% of the stake in Manchester City to a private equity firm Silver Lake.City Football Group (CFG), the holding company of Manchester City is currently valued at $4.8 billion, and the deal has been concluded for a price of $500 million. As per the Financial Times report, CFG is an Abu Dhabi-controlled organization that owns Manchester...

On Monday, the stock market reached new highs: the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 190.85 points (or 0.68%) and achieved 28,066.47 by the end of the day, the Nasdaq Composite increased by 1.32% up to 8,632.49, while S&P 500 gained 0.8%. The biggest gains have been made by technology and health care companies. Such companies as Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Intel, Alibaba, Tesla, Disney, and more have enjoyed growth in stocks. For example, Intel rose 2%, Amazon gained 1.61%, Gilead Sciences...

Shares of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba saw a great launch in Hong Kong on Tuesday, after pricing its shares at 176 Hong Kong dollars (approx. $22.5) apiece. This is the biggest listing this year so far, larger than the approximately $8 billion raised by Uber in May. This also came as an excellent boost for the Hong Kong market which had problems since the pro-democracy protests escalated in recent weeks. Alibaba trades under the stock code 9988 in Hong Kong. Nine and eight are considered...