The advent of gaming, especially computer gaming, marks a fundamental break in human affairs. Gaming is profoundly transforming two central aspects of the modern world: culture and regulation. There will be no turning back. When it comes to culture, the West has been in a dialogue with itself for centuries, indeed millennia, stretching at least as far back as the ...

Billionaire Jack Ma seems unable to move beyond his controversial past. He paid dearly for his open critique of Chinese state-owned banks last October, when weeks later a furious President Xi Jinping personally decided to pull Ant Group Co’s $34 billion initial public offering. In April, his e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd was slapped with a record $2.8 billion ...

Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc isn’t about to throw away its pandemic-era ways of working. The bank, which is in the midst of a historic pivot and cost cutting program, predicts it will be operating in a profoundly different way after the virus outbreak ebbs, with as many as 70% of its staff backing a hybrid working model and with its ...