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William Li, founder, chairman, and CEO of Nio (NYSE: NIO), stated that the company’s battery swap business is showing positive momentum, with its battery swap stations in Shanghai approaching profitability. Li shared this update in a Weibo post, where he included a replay clip from a live video broadcast he...

At the end of 2024, US and Canadian businesses, including big players such as Amazon, Tesla, CitiGroup, and Microsoft, made sweeping job cuts. The same was true on the other side of the Atlantic: nearly a quarter of UK businesses cut jobs in response to pressure on their finances from...

Xiaomi (HKG: 1810, OTCMKTS: XIACY) is accelerating efforts to expand its electric vehicle (EV) production capacity as delivery wait times remain lengthy. Lei Jun, the company’s founder, chairman, and CEO, shared on Weibo that he had visited Xiaomi’s EV factory to discuss strategies with the manufacturing team on increasing capacity...

TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné has urged Europe to secure a free-trade guarantee on U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG), emphasizing the need for stability in an increasingly unpredictable global trade environment. His remarks come as the United States implements sweeping tariffs on Chinese imports, prompting China to impose a 15% levy...

Initial concerns over the sustainability of Malaysia’s data center expansion following DeepSeek’s emergence are now turning into optimism, according to an analysis by Juwai IQI Co-Founder and Group CEO Kashif Ansari. Ansari noted that DeepSeek had disrupted the AI landscape with a large language model that rivaled those of established...

Question: If your industry's greatest producer or leader is available, could you recruit them? Question: If so, how would your organization’s trajectory be impacted? Notre Dame vs. Ohio State: A Championship Overshadowed by North Carolina’s Bold Move  This past week, Notre Dame and Ohio State faced off in the national...

A great leader understands that excellence is its own reward. Whatever the results show on the scoreboard, the outcome in business negotiation, or any desired pursuit, a true leader never lets one result define them. Instead, this caliber of leader believes that inhabiting “a world of excellence” is its own...

I often work with clients who have entered into bad contracts. Perhaps they relied on a form contract online or made a deal over a handshake without writing down its terms. Maybe in their excitement over the transaction, they did not fully understand its terms. Conducting business without entering into...

Boeing's stock rose by 6% on Tuesday morning after the company reported a fourth-quarter net loss that aligned with its recently disclosed preliminary results. The plane maker closed out a challenging year marked by significant financial setbacks, safety investigations, and a workers' strike. The company announced a net loss of...

Businesses do not survive merely on how good their product or service can be. At some point of their business journey, they may have to tap into marketing activities and strategies to promote, increase brand awareness, acquire new customers, and break into new markets. Most recently, one marketing strategy that...