When a company goes public, offering share participation to potential investors for the first time, the bargain goes like this: “I, the company, will get your money, dear investor, without recourse. I will never ever give it back to you. Your money will join my enterprise in good times as in bad. W»»»

China has some of the world’s strictest opioid regulations, but OxyContin and other pain pills are sold illegally online by vendors who take advantage of the country’s major e-commerce and social media sites, including platforms run by Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba. These black markets supply, among o»»»

Mekala Krishnan and Laura Tyson BERKELEY — Recent trends, and the broader history of technological change, indicate that automation will usher in major shifts in labour markets over the next decade, displacing millions of workers but also creating millions of new jobs that require new skills. The M»»»

For the first time, the South Korean consumer electronics company beat out packaged goods company Procter & Gamble in terms of the advertising dollars it’s spending, reported Tech Crunch. According to new data from AdAge, the company spent $11.2 billion for advertising and sales promotion last year»»»

PONTIANAK, Indonesia: The sweltering backwaters of Indonesian Borneo have become the unlikely ground zero for the global production and export of Kratom, a tree leaf hailed by some as a miracle cure for everything from opioid addiction to anxiety. Part of the coffee family, the leaf has been used f»»»