Entrepreneurship
Europe’s heat-parched land poses risks for next year’s crops
Grain acreage in the continent has already fallen gradually over the last 25 yearsPARCHED soil and scorching heat are threatening Europe’s fall planting season, heightening risks to global food...
Stripe clinches over US$7 billion deal to buy AI firm OpenRouter
Published Mon, Aug 17, 2026 · 06:39 AMSTRIPE has finalised an agreement to acquire OpenRouter, a startup that helps companies switch between artificial intelligence models, for more than US$7...
Alibaba’s Qwen hits 3 billion downloads, outpacing China and US AI rivals
Download and derivative-model figures are one measure of influence in the US-China AI racePublished Sun, Aug 16, 2026 · 04:41 PMALIBABA Group Holding’s open-weight models have accumulated more than...
‘Full of confidence’ in South-east Asia: Cosco Shipping eyes investments in Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia to power growth
The logistics player bets on regional presence amid manufacturing growth and Chinese trade flows[SINGAPORE] Mainboard-listed Cosco Shipping International (Singapore) is looking to South-east Asia for growth, betting that rising...
Nvidia has US$21 billion SpaceX stake, US$30 billion in Intel shares
Published Sat, Aug 15, 2026 · 03:52 PM[SAN FRANCISCO] Nvidia on Friday (Aug 14) disclosed a nearly US$21 billion stake in Elon Musk’s SpaceX and a US$30 billion one...
Harvard fund discloses US$2.2 billion stake in Musk’s SpaceX
Published Sat, Aug 15, 2026 · 02:27 PM[NEW YORK] Harvard Management disclosed a US$2.2 billion stake in SpaceX, showing how the university’s endowment has profited from an early bet...
Leveraged ETFs snap back as casino crowd mints US$50 billion
Published Sat, Aug 15, 2026 · 12:09 PM[NEW YORK] Three weeks ago, Wall Street’s casino crowd took a beating. AI stocks buckled, semiconductor shares tumbled and leveraged trades unravelled.Now...
Oil climbs over US$1 on tanker attacks, no progress on peace
Published Sat, Aug 15, 2026 · 08:58 AM[HOUSTON] Crude oil futures climbed over US$1 a barrel on Friday (Aug 14) on tanker attacks and a lack of progress on...
US: S&P 500 ends lower as investors weigh data, Middle East tensions
Published Sat, Aug 15, 2026 · 08:31 AM[NEW YORK] The S&P 500 closed lower on Friday (Aug 14), dipping from a record high and weighed down by Applied Materials,...
Investor Relations Data Draws $18M for AI Startup Quartr
Investor relations data just proved it can power a fast-growing business, as Quartr raised $18 million, or about 15.6 million euros, on August 11 to expand its data platform....
