Be in the know. 16 key reads for New Year’s Day!

  1. Alibaba Cloud looks to spur growth via a shift from government clients to public cloud services: report (technode)
  2. China’s chip-making equipment imports from the Netherlands surge tenfold in value in November: report (technode)
  3. Taobao aligns refund rules with Pinduoduo in attempt to draw in users (technode)
  4. Serious Medical Errors Rose After Private Equity Firms Bought Hospitals (nytimes)
  5. 11 Charts That Explain the Year in Business, Technology and the Economy (nytimes)
  6. DJIA and NASDAQ Best on First Trading Day of New Year (almanactrader)
  7. How To Lose Nearly $20 Billion: Inside The Fall Of Dish Network’s Charles Ergen And His Latest Attempt To Battle Back (forbes)
  8. How China talked markets out of a run on the yuan (reuters)
  9. The 50 Greatest Luxury Hotel Suites in the World (robbreport)
  10. The 27 Most Beautiful New Restaurants in America in 2023 (robbreport)
  11. This New 8-Night Road Trip Through the Italian Countryside Was Inspired by the ‘Ferrari’ Movie (robbreport)
  12. Why 2024 could be one of Tiger’s most compelling years (mygolfspy.com)
  13. Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian built billion-dollar business empires (foxbusiness)
  14. Where to Go in 2024 (townandcountry)
  15.  Monetary policy and economic overview at year end (scottgrannis)
  16. Alibaba’s Top 10 Highlights of 2023 (alizila)