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Uber Technologies co-founder Travis Kalanick sold off about $578 million of stock over three days this week. Photo: Getty

Billionaires: Uber co-founder sells nearly $550m worth of shares after lock-up period

MoneyNovember 18, 2019

Salaries for board directors of S&P500 firms has climbed 43 per cent over the past decade, but it is through incentives such as stock grants and options that the real money is often made. AP Photo.

Board members of top US firms face greater scrutiny as pay and incentives climb

EconomyNovember 12, 2019

The Convoy Inc. application is displayed on a smartphone in an arranged photograph taken in Patterson, California, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. Convoy hooked truck drivers with an app to easily find jobs and get paid quickly. Now it needs to address concerns about low prices and figure out how to turn a profit. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Unprofitable model of tech applications is a hard sell among lorry drivers

EconomyOctober 30, 2019

Jeff Bezos is set to lose the number one spot on the list of the world's wealthiest people after Amazon shares tumbled on Thursday. AFP

Amazon boss set to lose world’s richest person crown as shares drop

MoneyOctober 25, 2019

Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive of Salesforce, argued in a New York Times opinion article last week that a new type of capitalism is needed. Photo: Bloomberg

Billionaires: Marc Benioff says capitalism has led to ‘horrifying inequality’

MoneyOctober 21, 2019

Goals set at the UN general assembly four years ago are unlikely to be met until 2073, experts warned. Bloomberg

World leaders to take stock of 'faltering' global goals

The AmericasSeptember 18, 2019

Hamdi Ulukaya, who was raised in a dairy-farming family in Turkey, started Chobani in 2007 using a loan from the US Small Business Administration. Phone: AFP

Chobani yoghurt billionaire says solution to global refugee crisis is to hire them

MoneySeptember 07, 2019

Private investment firms backed by rich families are increasingly taking advantage of smaller opportunities in real estate outside the reach of larger institutional investors. Getty

How a Harvard grad transitioned his family's wealth from retail to real estate

PropertySeptember 01, 2019

Waiting for exam results is nerve-racking for pupils and parents. The National

Beyond exam results, a promising future awaits

EditorialAugust 14, 2019

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. Reuters

World's wealthy shed $117 billion in market mayhem

MoneyAugust 06, 2019

Democratic presidential candidate and US Senator Elizabeth Warren. AFP

Flourishing US economy is as fake as the gold elevators in Trump Tower

CommentAugust 05, 2019

IIF estimates show that for one percentage point of lower Chinese growth, demand for oil by China weakens by 300,000 bpd. Bloomberg

Quicktake: why Apple needs to focus more on services like video streaming

TechnologyJuly 31, 2019

Richard Branson is presented with a space-themed cake during a luncheon attended by 100 Virgin Galactic ticket holders, to mark his 69th birthday. Photo: AP

Richard Branson says he’ll go into space ‘in months, not years’

MoneyJuly 27, 2019

Priyanka Chopra, Michelle Obama, Deepika Padukone have been named as three of the world's most infuential women in a recent YouGov survey. Getty

Priyanka Chopra named one of the most admired women in the world

LifestyleJuly 21, 2019

LVMH chief Bernard Arnault is now the world's second-richest man, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index. AFP

Arnault's $107bn fortune knocks Gates down to 3rd place

EconomyJuly 17, 2019

Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos with his former wife MacKenzie Bezos. The couple are now divorced. Reuters

Amazon's Jeff Bezos finalises his divorce with $38bn settlement

TechnologyJuly 06, 2019

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