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CNNMoney: SecondMarket raises $15 millionupdated: Wed Nov 02 2011 11:29:00

Alternative investing marketplace SecondMarket has raised $15 million -- the latest sign of the healthy demand for private tech companies.

Fortune: Market for hard-to-sell assets gets a big boostupdated: Wed Feb 24 2010 11:59:00

The charity foundation of Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's richest man, and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund said Tuesday they had invested $15 million in SecondMarket. You may not have heard of this fast-growing New York-based company, but it's created new exchanges where companies and investors can sell assets they might otherwise have had trouble unloading.

CNNMoney: China's Alibaba to start chargingupdated: Sun Dec 31 2006 09:31:00

Alibaba.com, China's largest e-commerce company, will soon start charging some users of its free Alipay online payments service as it seeks new sources of revenue.

CNNMoney: Number of billionaires surgesupdated: Thu Mar 09 2006 12:46:00

The number of billionaires surged this year, as did their collective pile of cash, according to Forbes magazine's annual billionaire list.

Business 2.0: Broadband's Utility Playerupdated: Sun Jan 01 2006 00:01:00

Throughout the world, Residential Internet access is usually sold as part of a bundle: To get fast, always-on service, a customer first has to purchase a local telephone line or sign up for cable T...

Fortune: Can Asia's Cyber Kid Rise Again? The son of Hong Kong's richest tycoon had a bad year. His Internet company updated: Mon Mar 19 2001 00:01:00

On a breezy Sunday, Richard Li, 34, the second son of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka Shing, dashes into the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club. All eyes follow young Li to a secluded table on the terrace, where yo...

Fortune: Get Rich Quick--In Asiaupdated: Mon Jan 24 2000 00:01:00

Forget the Silicon Valley gold rush--the unheralded story of last year is the one that took place in Asia. Flush with new dot-com offerings, Asian equity markets exploded. From Tokyo to Singapore, ...

Fortune: THE STYLE OF POWERupdated: Mon Nov 11 1996 00:01:00

Style is hardly a prerequisite of power; Bill Gates and Warren Buffett certainly reign in their worlds without it, Hillary Clinton in hers. But those who manage to join the two successfully seem to...

Fortune: HONG KONG: MEET THE NEW BOSS?updated: Mon Apr 01 1996 00:01:00

When China's dictatorship of the proletariat exercises its right to rule Hong Kong on July 1, 1997, there likely won't be chaos or military suppression. Instead, look for an unusual form of polity:...

Fortune: MURDOCH'S BIG PICTUREupdated: Mon Aug 23 1993 00:01:00

Rupert Murdoch sure gets a lot of work done on vacation. Aboard his yacht, Morning Glory, off the coast of Italy, he recently signed a deal to buy 64% of HutchVision's STAR TV from billionaire Li K...

Fortune: ROMANCE AND SUSPENSE IN INDIAupdated: Mon Mar 08 1993 00:01:00

Like them or loathe them, Hollywood soap operas have a certain appeal that transcends borders. Millions of urban viewers in India can't get enough of two U.S. daytime soaps, NBC's Santa Barbara (wh...

Fortune: ASIA 2000 The world's growth center is shifting across the Pacific, spurring the fastest-rising markets on the globe. The U.S. supdated: Mon Oct 05 1992 00:01:00

THE PACIFIC CENTURY is dawning like thunder out of China. Yes, everyone has been gazing at the horizon in anticipation of the emergence of a new center of economic growth. But its arrival comes wit...

Fortune: WHAT A BILLIONAIRE TEACHES HIS SONS updated: Mon Jul 13 1992 00:01:00

WHAT does a Chinese billionaire teach his children? Quite a lot, even though Li Ka-shing is mostly self-educated and his two sons -- Victor, 27, and Richard, 25 -- studied at Stanford. Says Li: ''I...

Fortune: WHAT TO DO WITH CANARY WHARFupdated: Mon Jun 29 1992 00:01:00

With Olympia & York falling into bankruptcy, what will be the fate of its $5.4 billion Canary Wharf development in the docklands of London? Rumors abound that Dubai's Sheikh Maktoum al Maktoum, Hon...

Fortune: THE GROWING POWER OF ASIAupdated: Mon Oct 07 1991 00:01:00

Western companies will have to hurry to catch up in Asia. Every three days a new Japanese factory opens in Thailand. Hong Kong multibillionaire Li Ka-shing already broadcasts television programs, w...

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