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Off-market margin financing resurges

Since last year, the regulators have taken actions to clean up off-market margin financing. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has previously prohibited securities companies from providing any convenience or service for the securities margin trading between their customers and other parties or between customers by selling umbrella trust on commission basis, P2P platform, self-developed margin trading services and systems and etc. Online financing has been officially prohibited.

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Chinese O2O giant sets up e-commerce training college

Chinese online-to-offline (O2O) giant Meituan & Dazhongdianping has announced it will set up a college to train e-commerce personnel.

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Baidu posts biggest profit decline since going public

Baidu Inc, China’s largest Internet search company, posted its steepest-ever quarterly profit decline and slowest growth in revenue in nearly eight years, hit by a healthcare scandal that ensnared the company this year.

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Identity crisis that led to Yahoo's demise

When senior Yahoo executives gathered for a management retreat in 2006, there was no outward sign of a company in crisis.

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Yahoo, once Web pioneer, to turn into investment company

Yahoo Inc., once a Silicon Valley legend and Web pioneer, will turn into an investment company with a different name at closing of its deal with Verizon Communications Inc.

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IBM revenue beats estimates as shift to cloud pays off

​International Business Machines Corp's quarterly revenue beat analysts' expectations as the company's shift to high-growth areas such as cloud-based services begins to yield results.

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Nintendo shares surge on Pokemon Go juggernaut

​Nintendo shares soared on Monday after its new augmented reality mobile app, Pokemon Go, burst out of the gate over the weekend in the U.S and in key markets around the globe.

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Tesla has no plans to disable Autopilot feature: WSJ

​Tesla Motors Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk said the electric car maker has no plans to disable its Autopilot feature in the wake of a fatal accident in which the driver of a Model S car was using the technology, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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DJI, Silicon Delta darling that dominates drone market, explores new frontiers

​Shenzhen-based Da-Jiang Innovations, faced with competition from rivals such as Parrot and Xiaomi, pushes programming kit that lets drone buyers adapt them for use in areas such as science, agriculture and search and rescue

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IKEA give no solutions to "problematic dressers" on time

IKEA still has not made a final decision on whether to extend a recall into China, on adresser that's been blamed for several accidental deaths overseas.

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China Vanke and partners to acquire commercial properties from Blackstone Group

​China Vanke, the largest homebuilder in the mainland, is planning to spend 3.9 billion yuan to acquire commercial property companies from Blackstone Group.

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China makes first IPO fraud delisting

A company is to be expelled from China's stock market following fraud during its IPO, the first time authorities have taken such action.

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$4 Indian smartphones 'will ship this week'

Ultra-cheap Ringing Bells Freedom 251 Android phone previously thought to be scam will ship in batch of 200,000 – but company will make loss on each handset

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Ikea to recall millions of dressers blamed in deaths of three toddlers

​The company is expected to offer refunds in what’s being reported as an unprecedented recall of more than 25 million dressers.

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Australian mining giant BHP to spend 900 mln USD on exploration in FY2017

The world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton, has announced their plans to spend 900 million U.S. dollars in the next financial year on exploration for copper and oil.

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Facebook executives reiterate interest in China

Shareholders approved the plan to create a new class of shares and re-elected all eight directors at Facebook’s annual meeting