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Facebook buys 10% stake in Ambani’s Jio

Bloomberg Facebook Inc will invest $5.7 billion in the digital assets controlled by India’s richest man, the US social-networking giant’s biggest deal since the 2014 purchase of WhatsApp as it seeks a broader foothold in its biggest global market. The US company will buy about 10% of Jio Platforms, becoming the largest minority shareholder, Reliance Industries Ltd said in a ...

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Alibaba-backed newspaper cuts ‘pay’

Bloomberg South China Morning Post, a newspaper owned by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, is cutting executives’ salaries and asking some workers to take unpaid leave as the coronavirus crisis has hurt revenue. CEO Gary Liu and Editor-in-Chief Tammy Tam are among 27 senior executives who have agreed to pay reductions immediately, the company said on its newspaper ...

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Indonesia bans annual holiday exodus to combat virus

Bloomberg Indonesia banned an annual ritual of citizens travelling in large numbers to their hometowns and villages ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country. President Joko Widodo, who announced the ban at a cabinet meeting in Jakarta, said the prohibition was based on an assessment that about ...

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