Four major Ontario school boards are taking some of the largest social media companies to court over their products, alleging the way they're designed has negatively rewired the way children think, behave and learn and disrupted the way schools operate.The public district school boards of Toronto, Peel and...
Alibaba Group Holding’s international e-commerce platform AliExpress is betting on a European market breakthrough by sponsoring this year’s European Football Championship, or Euro 2024, a move that comes after its rival Temu cracked the US market through ads that ran in the Super Bowl.AliExpress is...
And it is more than 20 per cent below cost, meaning the flagship developer of tycoon Li Ka-shing will make a significant loss on the inaugural batch.“CK Asset’s pricing is very likely to put selling price pressure on other projects atop Wong Chuk Hang station,”...
The CNSA estimated this e-commerce segment was already worth hundreds of billions of dollars on the mainland. The state-run body reports to the National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA), China’s broadcasting regulator. 02:50China’s live-streaming industry heats up as millions of would-be hosts vie to break into...
Law enforcement officers stand guard near the Crocus City Hall concert venue following a reported shooting incident, near Moscow, Russia.Maksim Blinov / Sputnik via APRussia was aware that a terrorist attack was being planned weeks before the massacre at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow...
Anna Barclay | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAdvertising guru Martin Sorrell has questioned the prospects of Donald Trump's newly public Truth Social platform, saying it was currently "unfathomable" that clients would want to buy ads on the site.The British businessman told CNBC on Wednesday...
Federal Reserve Bank Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference at the bank's William McChesney Martin building on March 20, 2024 in Washington, DC.Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesMarkets will continue to rally even if the Federal Reserve chooses not to...
This partly explains why the government has stepped up support for the crisis-ridden housing market. Beijing has intensified pressure on banks to assist vulnerable developers, cut mortgage rates to stimulate demand and provided low-cost financing to the urban village renovation and affordable housing programmes.It also...
The cost of selling a home in the United States may be about to change dramatically.A real estate trade group has agreed to a landmark deal to drop what was once a cornerstone of the industry: the six per cent sales commission paid to agents.In Canada,...
If chocolate is your pleasure, you've undoubtedly noticed it costs more these days to get your fill.You can thank the scarcity of cocoa for that. The majority of it grows in West Africa, where drought and disease have severely reduced crop yields. As a result,...