Business

Labour coders
Unions take on Amazon and Alphabet. Big tech watch out

An old force wants to shake up a younger industry

Flogging the family lead
Narendra Modi promises to privatise Air India

The state promises to unload its dusty companies. For real this time

Bartleby
Diary of a plague year

A columnist confronts the pandemic

Anglo-German business ties
For Deutschland AG, Brexit goes from bad to wurst

Companies in Germany lament the effect of Britain’s departure from the EU

Schumpeter
The cult of an Elon Musk or a Jack Ma has its perks—but also perils

Business leaders eager to cultivate acolytes should be careful what they wish for

Harbingers of boom
America Inc has survived the oddest year in modern times. What next?

Stockmarkets are pricing in an economic snap-back and growth on top of it. That may be too rosy

Cook v Zuck
Apple’s privacy policy kicks Facebook where it hurts

The iPhone-maker antagonises its ad-dependent Silicon Valley neighbours

Goalless defeat
Why no one wants to broadcast France’s Ligue 1

The beautiful game is in an ugly financial situation

Bartleby
How to get managers’ incentives right

Executives, not investors, may be to blame for short-termism

Schumpeter
Shareholders are pushing ExxonMobil to go green

Investors are rebelling against a hydrocarbon-heavy strategy

Video games
Kuaishou’s shares surge on the video app’s stockmarket debut

The firm is taking on TikTok and its Chinese sibling

Too close to the sun
What the fate of HNA Group says about China Inc’s foreign ambitions

Globetrotting Chinese conglomerates retreat home