Bloomberg With Miami still on Amazon.com Inc.’s short list for a new headquarters, entrepreneurs gathered at the Endeavor Miami ScaleUP Summit to assess the city’s prospects as a technology hub. The takeaway? Amazon or not, most speakers thought the city was uniquely placed to benefit from its location between US and Latin American business hubs, as long as it could ...

Bloomberg Willi Breuckmann could have gone for the BMW motorcycle—it was a comfortable and affordable machine. And it made sense for him to stick with a ride made in his own country, Germany. Instead, he chose a Harley-Davidson. The Road King. “It comes down to a feeling,” what the Germans call “ein Gefühl,” said Breuckmann, a 54-year-old web developer who ...

During the past decade, China has been investing a lot of money in sub-Saharan Africa: Some Western observers worry that this represents a new form of colonialism. Given the continent’s history with European conquerors and rich countries trying to cheaply exploit its natural resources, that suspicion is understandable. But although China can sometimes be predatory — for example, when uneconomical ...