US coffee chain Starbucks has announced it is forming a joint venture with asset management firm Boyu Capital in China, where the latter will hold a 60 percent stake in the company’s local business. China is Starbucks’ second-largest market globally and it has recently been struggling with increased competition from local rivals like Luckin Coffee. Also in this edition, we look at OpenAI’s blockbuster $38 billion deal with Amazon’s cloud services unit.
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EU's new carbon border tax goes into force
The European Union's controversial new rules on polluting industrial imports went into effect on January 1st, following a two-year transition...
