Bill Gates has made his largest gift since the turn of the century, giving away Microsoft shares that accounted for 5% of his fortune, the world’s biggest. The billionaire donated 64m of the software maker’s shares valued at $4.6bn
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Rovio Entertainment is planning an initial public offering as early as next month that could value the maker of the…
Bitcoin soared past $4 000 for the first time on growing optimism faster transaction times will hasten the spread of the cryptocurrency. The largest digital tender jumped to a peak of $4 125.17 on Monday,
Beware of Beijing: that’s the lesson of Friday’s selloff in the shares of China’s most valuable company. Tencent – a stock-market favourite for its 66% surge this year – slid 4.9% in Hong Kong in its steepest drop since February 2016
China’s online watchdog has launched an investigation into reports of multiple violations at news services run by Tencent, Baidu and Weibo, as the government continues to tighten scrutiny over Internet content. The Cyberspace Administration
Global tensions sparked a market selloff on Thursday that drained $42.7bn (about R575bn) from the net worth of the world’s 500 richest people and knocked Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos from his spot as the world’s second
Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab have settled a dispute that led to antitrust complaints in Europe and an investigation in Russia. As part of the agreement, Microsoft will make changes to the next update of Windows this
Amazon.com has joined Tencent and the main assembler of iPhones in backing Essential Products, the start-up co-founded by Android-creator Andy Rubin that’s getting ready to sell a new smartphone. China’s largest social
Kenya is sliding toward a potentially violent political crisis over opposition allegations that hackers interfered with provisional vote tallies from Tuesday’s general elections. The normally bustling streets of Nairobi, the
Netflix got a wake-up call from Walt Disney. Disney, the world’s biggest entertainment company, said on Tuesday it will stop supplying new Disney- and Pixar-brand movies to Netflix starting in 2019 and launch