Brookfield India Reit seals $522m listing
Brookfield Asset Management has pulled off India’s third ever real estate investment trust IPO, raising Rp38bn ($521.7m) as strong demand covered the deal multiple times over.
JPM appoints Aus ECM co-heads
JP Morgan has named Simone Haslinger and Jonas Troeber as the co-heads of its equity capital markets business in Australia and New Zealand.
The week in review: Shenzhen merges mainboard with SME board, CSRC strengthens ESG disclosures, MOU sealed for Wealth Management Connect
In this round-up, China’s securities regulator approves the consolidation of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s main board and the SME board, listed companies are required to update investors with information related to their environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) efforts, and Beijing, Hong Kong and Macau further lay the foundation for a cross-border wealth management connect…
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Ranting About GM’s Electric Vehicle Super Bowl Ads (Ugh)
Okay, I’ve got to do it. Will Ferrell Norway EV Ad First of all, there was the big Norway/Will Ferrell ad that came out a few days ago. I absolutely love Will Ferrell. So, yeah, I don’t see any way you could watch the ad and not enjoy Will Ferrell’s superb, unique, heartwarming comedic brilliance.…
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Dialog Semiconductor, whose clients include Apple and Samsung, is in advanced talks to sell the company to Japan’s Renesas Electronics Corp. for ~$5.9B (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:Dialog Semiconductor, whose clients include Apple and Samsung, is in advanced talks to sell the company to Japan’s Renesas Electronics Corp. for ~$5.9B — – Renesas prepared to offer EU67.50 per share in cash for Dialog — Dialog comments on bid in statement after Bloomberg report
Tesla Is Honoring Black History Month
Black History Month here in America is really important, because it sheds light on the stories of many African Americans who have fought for justice — whether fighting slavery and for freedom, or fighting for voting rights and equal rights, or fighting for the right to just be seen as human. It’s terrible what African…
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Mango Solar — Offering Electrification & Digitalization In Africa, Now In Installments
It wasn’t until I talked to Mango Solar that I realized how long it has been. It feels like just a few years ago that the company was in the news for helping farmers in remote rural Africa stay connected using feature phones. Turns out that was nearly 9 years ago, and as it also…
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Analysis: in 2020, Amazon’s capital expenditure grew 69% YoY to $54B, Microsoft’s grew 14% YoY to $20.6B, and Google’s declined over 5% YoY to $22.3B (Charles Fitzgerald/Platformonomics)
Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics:Analysis: in 2020, Amazon’s capital expenditure grew 69% YoY to $54B, Microsoft’s grew 14% YoY to $20.6B, and Google’s declined over 5% YoY to $22.3B — It is time for our annual bulletin to CAPEX obsessives (previous updates from 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 as well as earlier installments).
Sensor Tower data on top apps worldwide: Telegram led with 63M downloads in Jan. 2021, as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger downloads fell from Dec. 2020 (Julia Chan/Sensor Tower Blog)
Julia Chan / Sensor Tower Blog:Sensor Tower data on top apps worldwide: Telegram led with 63M downloads in Jan. 2021, as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger downloads fell from Dec. 2020 — Telegram was the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for January 2021 with more than 63 million installs, 3.8 times its downloads in January 2020.
After a flurry of tweets from Elon Musk in recent weeks, dogecoin, which launched in 2013 as a joke, has jumped in price from half a cent on Jan. 1 to ~8 cents (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:After a flurry of tweets from Elon Musk in recent weeks, dogecoin, which launched in 2013 as a joke, has jumped in price from half a cent on Jan. 1 to ~8 cents — Cryptocurrency that started in 2013 as a joke is suddenly worth a total of more than $6 billion