After a euphoric public market debut, Snap shares dropped for the first time in three days after analysts began weighing in with their thoughts on the company's true valuation.

The Snuggie case and others like it show how companies may go to great lengths to avoid the barriers governments impose on imported products.

Cream, cheese and butter are seldom used in commercial Chinese kitchens. Now dairy exporters like Fonterra are working to change that.

Deutsche Bank plans to raise capital, list its asset management business and overhaul its business structure as it tries to reinvent itself after spending two years dealing with its past misdeeds and huge losses.

In the US and Europe, about a quarter of the billionaires on the index are age 80 or older, compared to 20 per cent in Asia.

​The world's largest technology investor is preparing to ramp up his bet on the Trump economy.

Uber has for years engaged in a worldwide program to deceive authorities in markets where its low-cost ride-hailing service was being resisted by law enforcement, or in some instances, had been outright banned.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP's epic screw-up at the Oscars could carry a high cost if jurors arrive at a malpractice trial next week suspecting the global accounting firm is error-prone.

A typical year sees seven or eight movies with toy tie-ins. This year there are about 25, an unprecedented number for the $26.5 billion toy industry.

• ANALYSIS

At its current price, Snap makes its much bigger rival Facebook - not to mention internet stalwarts such as Google, Amazon and even Netflix - look like bargain-basement "value" stocks.

Jason Chang's enthusiasm for doing business in Indonesia is as clear as it is unusual.

Mexico's biggest cement maker said it would be willing to provide supplies for the US border wall proposed by President Donald Trump, ending months in which the company declined to comment on the potential project.

The witness statements from a $211m lawsuit against a pair of billionaire property developers, Nick and Christian Candy, read like a film script. The allegations are so lurid they could be made into a thriller — although audiences might have some trouble believing the more colourful scenes.

Asia Pacific is the world's most exposed region to natural disasters.

Y​ahoo's top lawyer Ronald Bell has resigned, and its chief executive Marissa Mayer lost her 2016 bonus, after a board investigation of the 2014 theft of information on more than 500 million user accounts.

No one on earth has lost more in the past months - from a dollar and cents standpoint, at least - than Mexican telecom billionaire Carlos Slim, Donald Trump' nemesis south of the wall he's planning to build.

Imagine if your net worth increased by $US2 billion ($2.6 billion) a day for the past week. That's what happened when shares of China's largest parcel delivery company, S.F. Express, made their debut and turned founder Wang Wei into the country's third-richest man.

The publisher will release separate books from Barack and Michelle Obama, reportedly agreeing to pay what would be the highest ever for US presidential memoirs.

​The Trump administration on Wednesday is expected to signal a sharp break from US trade policy.

The memoirs of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, could be worth $US60 million in a record-breaking auction.

• ANALYSIS

Uber is facing a perfect storm.

There's no question that it's been a hard year for Kalanick and Uber - or really, a bad year compressed down into an awful three months. And it keeps getting worse.

US President Donald Trump's first budget proposal will spare big social welfare programs such as Social Security and Medicare from any cuts.

(Bloomberg) -- Brazil is moving to cast off the last shackles of government influence at iron-ore giant Vale SA -- but not before replacing the CEO with someone more politically palatable.

In 2013, Anthony Levandowski was the star of Google's self-driving car project. The tall, swaggering engineer was featured in a long New Yorker story about the search engine willing the impossible technology into reality.

Wildlife prices are tumbling in South Africa, as game breeders are squeezed by restrictions imposed on trophy hunting following the killing of Cecil the lion in 2015.

• COMMENT

For all the turmoil marking the first weeks of President Trump, the big boot is yet to drop. That's when the angry heartland realises the factory jobs aren't coming back, whatever Trump promised.

There are 2473 billionaires in the world, with a new super-rich created every three days in Asia. Many may seem as ordinary as the guy sitting next to you on the bus.

Here is a look at how 10 billionaires have made and invested their money.