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Holiday shoppers spent a record amount online, searching out deals amid economic anxiety
Consumers splurged this last holiday season, enticed by good deals even as they worried about growth and inflation. Online shoppers spent a record $257.8 billion during the holiday season...
Frasers Centrepoint Trust secures S$400 million green loan facility
This involves term loan and revolving credit facilities from DBS, OCBC and Maybank[SINGAPORE] Frasers Centrepoint Trust (FCT) has entered into a S$400 million green loan facility, the trust’s manager...
Warner Bros rejects revised Paramount bid as risky leveraged buyout
[LOS ANGELES] Warner Bros Discovery’s board has unanimously turned down Paramount Skydance’s latest attempt to acquire the studio, saying its revised US$108.4 billion hostile bid amounted to a risky...
Contributor: Tech can avert catastrophic fires. What’s missing is coordination
A year ago Los Angeles woke up to a red sky. Schools closed, and families packed into cars not knowing when or if they would return. In the end...
Auto dealer Tan Chong expects HK$327 million in gains from investments in 2025
[SINGAPORE] Automotive group Tan Chong International said on Wednesday (Jan 7) that it expects to record an unaudited gain of HK$327 million (S$53.8 million) on its investments designated at...
China targets online commerce battles in latest regulatory salvo
[BEIJING] China unveiled broad regulations on Wednesday (Jan 7) that ban major platforms such as Alibaba Group Holding from coercing online merchants into promotions, one of a raft of...
Cathay United Bank grants Marco Polo Marine unit long-tenor facility for NT$4.7 billion research vessel project
The group previously said it would finance the project through internal cashflows and not require any project-specific debt[SINGAPORE] Marco Polo Shipyard, a wholly owned subsidiary of integrated marine logistics...
Elon Musk company bot apologizes for sharing sexualized images of children
Grok, the chatbot of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, published sexualized images of children as its guardrails seem to have failed when it was prompted with vile user...
Tesla dethroned as the world’s top EV maker
Elon Musk’s Tesla is no longer the top electric vehicle seller in the world as demand at home has cooled while competition heated up abroad. Tesla lost its pole...
The biggest startups raised a record amount in 2025, dominated by AI
The excitement around artificial intelligence led to a record year for certain types of fundraising. Silicon Valley’s AI companies secured record funding in 2025, even as investors advised startups...
