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Ant Financial Valued at $150 Billion After Raising $14 Billion to Accelerate Globalization

Ant Financial Valued at $150 Billion After Raising $14 Billion to Accelerate Globalization

The operator of Alipay, China’s biggest online payment platform, Ant Financial Services Group, owned by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA), said that they have raised about $14 billion from domestic and international investors in Series C ..

Spark Therapeutics offers to cure blindness for $850,000

Spark Therapeutics offers to cure blindness for $850,000

Spark Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: ONCE) Luxturna, the first gene therapy in the U.S., has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The gene therapy is intended to treat a rare, inherited retinal disease that could possibly cause blindness. U..

Smartphones to be Produced in India

Smartphones to be Produced in India

India has been growing an interest in developing smartphones but is up in the air right now since there is a lack of skilled labor and suppliers as well as a complex tax regime. Under the slogan ‘Make in India’, the Prime Minister aims t..

Google Launches Digital Payments Service in India

Google Launches Digital Payments Service in India

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) launched a localized payments app for India as they try to gain a position in the rapidly growing digital payments space. The digital payments market in that country is expected to grow to $500 billion by 2020 after the ..