Alibaba Group Holding has won the sponsorship for the 2025 Spring Festival Gala show, China’s most-watched event of the year, as the e-commerce giant reaches out to consumers to regain growth momentum. The Hangzhou-based company signed a deal with China Media Group (CMG), which owns state broadcaster China Central Television, to be the “exclusive e-commerce … Read more
Last Updated:November 16, 2024, 23:42 IST The people in Punjab led the search for the query on Google, followed by those in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and Kerala. Donald Trump’s sweeping victory in the US Presidential elections last week has received mixed responses worldwide. (IMAGE: AP PHOTO) In interesting turns of events, search engine Google … Read more
US president-elect Donald Trump’s surprise pick of Pete Hegseth, a television host and army veteran, to be his Pentagon chief is expected to inject more unpredictability into the already fragile US-China military relationship, according to analysts. Hegseth, 44, is a Fox News political commentator and a military veteran who served tours of duty in Iraq … Read more
Washington: The idea that Vice President Kamala Harris, whose mother was from Chennai, will be more distant to the Indian government is mistaken, a top Indian American adviser to President Joe Biden has said. “Yeah, I find that so odd,” Neera Tanden, Domestic Policy Advisor to the US President told PTI when asked about the … Read more
KEY POINTS The Democratic presidential nominee says this would be provided to more than four million people over four years if she were to occupy the Oval Office. In May, national home prices were up 48 per cent from four years earlier, according to Case-Schiller. Today marks the fourth and final night of the Democratic … Read more
It also said the complex international environment – including the potential re-election of Donald Trump as US president in November – could accelerate Beijing’s unification timeline, without elaborating. The article offers a rare glimpse of the discussions going on in mainland China over the future of self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing sees as part of its … Read more
The global hit social media platform has started to invite merchants for a beta run of TikTok Shop in those markets before the in-app feature’s expected official launch this summer, according to three people familiar with the matter. TikTok Shop, however, has tightened its criteria for merchants, one of the people said. Those eligible for … Read more
After attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) annual meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, US, Former US President Donald Trump has been criticised for delivering another “lie-filled” speech. Ahead of the next presidential election, set to take place on 5 November this year, voters have been coming to terms with the fact that the nations … Read more
Tesla not being invited to the White House EV Summit in 2021 still irks its CEO, Elon Musk. On Christmas Eve, he took to X (earlier Twitter) to lash out at US President Joe Biden for excluding Tesla from the summit. He wrote: “Let’s not forget the White House giving Tesla the cold shoulder, excluding … Read more
