Business

Electric shock
The pandemic is giving e-bikes a boost

Two wheels good. Two wheels plus a motor better

Bartleby
Employees and employers both face trade-offs as offices reopen

Back on the chain gang

Terminal conditions
Air travel’s sudden collapse will reshape a trillion-dollar industry

The pandemic has knocked the airline-industrial complex harder than it has most sectors

Wish upon a STAR
Why China’s answer to Nasdaq is going gangbusters

Shanghai’s tech-focused STAR Market is benefiting from Sino-American tensions

Schumpeter
A GE whodunnit

The downfall of America’s industrial giant is a cautionary tale for all big firms

Directed sales
The world’s leading brands jump on the direct-selling bandwagon

They are after not just sales but data too

Sixty seconds of fame
TikTok’s Chinese parent is scrambling to hang on to its hit app

America threatens to ban ByteDance’s most valuable digital property—or seize it

Wakey, wakey
Corporate dealmakers emerge from pandemic hibernation

Does a slew of mega-mergers mark the end of an M&A drought?

Seeing is disbelieving
America Inc braces for an earnings bloodbath

For investors this earnings season will give the first inkling of just how bad things have got as a result of the pandemic

Puff piece
A state tobacco monopoly looms over China’s e-cigarette makers

Smoore, the world’s most valuable vaping company, tries to carve out a niche among Chinese smokers

In need of a software update
Indian IT consultancies struggle against technological obsolescence

The subcontinent’s successful tech giants risk being left behind

Bartleby
How small businesses have dealt with the crisis

Pandemic veterans