Another day, another smart home company is coming alive. But this latest one, Leeo, has some pretty big names behind it–including the main people responsible for creating products like Beats headphones and the video game Guitar Hero as well as executives from CIA-backed big data company Palantir and robotics company RoboteX.
And after a read »
Sprint had a good week. Its stock was up 12% on Friday to $6.57 per share from the previous Friday’s close. It announced iPhone 6 plans for less money and more data than competitors, and a replacement phone after two years. The company’s new CEO Marcelo Claure spoke to the public for the first time at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference read »
By Ryan Mac and Brian Solomon
Chinese online retailing conglomerate Alibaba Group plans to raise as much as $24 billion in an initial public offering according to new documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. At that size, Alibaba’s IPO would be the largest ever on for a U.S.-listed read »
Alibaba’s looming offering looks likely to beat out Visa and Facebook as the biggest IPO in U.S. history read »
Most telecommunications companies don’t like the idea of a free Internet, generally preferring that we all continue paying for access through fiber and cables. But a few in the industry know that can’t last forever. One of them may be Xavier Niel, the French billionaire who in a case of extreme bet-hedging is trying to buy one of America’s read »
In light of Alibaba’s upcoming IPO, I thought it would be appropriate to run a series of excerpts from my book The Chinese Dream, which documents Alibaba’s humble beginning, its triumph over eBay, and Jack Ma’s legendary story.
In the last episode, Jack Ma accidentally discovered the Internet on a trip read »
In light of Alibaba’s upcoming IPO, I thought it would be appropriate to run a series of excerpts from my book The Chinese Dream, which documents Alibaba’s humble beginning, its triumph over eBay, and Jack Ma’s legendary story.
The last episode was set in Alibaba’s boardroom. The top read »
An updated IPO filing from Alibaba revealed the 27-member cadre that will control the Chinese e-commerce giant, as well as nominations for its board of directors, which will include Chairman Jack Ma and Vice Chairman Joseph Tsai, co-founder Jerry Yang and former Goldman Sachs banker J. Michael Evans.
The Alibaba read »
By David Hatch
How does a Japanese telecom powerhouse win regulatory approval to buy the fourth largest U.S. wireless provider? An integral step, apparently, is to plaster metro stations in Washington, DC with ads screaming “Innovator,” “Disruptor,” “Entrepreneur,” and most importantly, “Competitor.”
That’s the approach taken by read »