Jeff Bezos. Masayoshi Son. Jack Ma. Mukesh Ambani. Some of the world’s richest people also happen to be combatants in the expensive war over the future of technology in India. Bezos’s Amazon.com Inc. and Indian rival Snapdeal, backed by Son, are spending billions of dollars to build e-commerce in India. Alibaba founder Ma has splurged on investments aimed at …

US public companies are moving away from the traditional shareholders’ meeting, opting instead to interact with investors online. Sensible as this might seem in the internet age, it’s important to ensure that it becomes a way to improve — rather than stifle — communication. The annual general meeting is among the most hallowed institutions of American capitalism: an opportunity, once …

  At least 94 IS fighters were killed in Afghanistan by “the mother of all bombs,” the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the US military. The US strike using the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, or MOAB, on a tunnel complex in remote eastern Nangarhar province near the Pakistan border killed four IS group leaders too. The …