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CITIC PE
CPE () is a Chinese alternative investment firm headquartered in Beijing. Previously known as CITIC Private Equity, it was the private equity investment arm of CITIC Securities before it was spun off as an independent firm in 2018. Background CITIC Private Equity was founded in June 2008 during the 2008 financial crisis as the private equity investment arm of CITIC Securities. It quickly a high profile in the private equity industry after hiring Liu Lefei as chairman. Liu who is considered a princeling is the son of top ranking CCP official Liu Yunshan and was previously the chief investment officer of China Life Insurance Company. In January 2010 after taking over a year in fundraising, CITIC Private Equity raised 9 billion yuan ($1.32 billion) for its first industrial investment fund called CITIC Mianyang Private Equity Fund. It was the largest yuan-denominated private equity fund ever raised in China at the time. Wu Yibing, the then-president of CITIC Private ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CITIC Capital
CITIC Capital () is a Chinese alternative investment firm founded in 2002 that is headquartered in Hong Kong. Background CITIC Capital was founded on 4 February 2002 originally as CITIC Capital Markets, an investment banking joint venture between CITIC Group and CITIC Ka Wah Bank. Towards the end of 2002, CITIC Capital Markets entered the retail mutual funds business in Hong Kong. It would rely on CITIC Ka Wah Bank and Cargary Securities to act as its distributors. Around this time, Zhang Yichen moved from CITIC Pacific to join the firm as deputy CEO and would oversee the new business strategy. The aim was to build a business infrastructure so it could later support CITIC Securities which at time was limited in its exposure to the funds industry. It partnered with Bank One Corporation to launch its first mutual fund which was a bond fund that invested in US mortgage-backed securities and treasuries. In 2006, CITIC Capital Markets and CITIC Securities signed a memoran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenovo
Lenovo Group Limited, trading as Lenovo ( , zh, c=联想, p=Liánxiǎng), is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in designing, manufacturing, and marketing consumer electronics, personal computers, software, servers, converged and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, and related services. Its global headquarters are in Beijing, China, and Morrisville, North Carolina, United States; it has research centers at these locations, elsewhere in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, in Stuttgart, Germany, and in Yamato, Kanagawa, Japan. Lenovo originated as an offshoot of a state-owned research institute. Then known as Legend and distributing foreign IT products, co-founder Liu Chuanzhi incorporated Legend in Hong Kong in an attempt to raise capital and was successfully permitted to build computers in China, and were helped by the American AST Research. Legend listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1994 and became the largest PC manufacturer in China and eventua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Republic
''The New Republic'' (often abbreviated as ''TNR'') is an American magazine focused on domestic politics, news, culture, and the arts from a left-wing perspective. It publishes ten print magazines a year and a daily online platform. ''The New York Times'' described the magazine as partially founded in Teddy Roosevelt's living room and known for its "intellectual rigor and left-leaning political views." History 1914–1974: Early years Founded in 1914 by several leaders of the progressive movement, it attempted to find a balance between "a liberalism centered in humanitarian and moral passion and one based in an ethos of scientific analysis". ''The New Republic'' was founded by Herbert Croly, Walter Lippmann, and Walter Weyl. They gained the financial backing of heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney and of her husband, Willard Straight, who eventually became the majority owner. The magazine's first issue was published on November 7, 1914. The magazine's politics were libe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roivant Sciences
Roivant Sciences Ltd. is an American multinational healthcare company focused on applying technology to drug development and building subsidiary life sciences and health technology companies. It was founded in 2014 by Vivek Ramaswamy and is currently headed by CEO Matt Gline. Roivant maintains its headquarters in New York City as well as major offices in the biotech hubs of Boston and Basel. History Vivek Ramaswamy founded Roivant in 2014. Ramaswamy's initial strategy was to in-license drug candidates and create subsidiaries focused on distinct therapeutic areas. This strategy expanded to include developing earlier stage drug candidates and platform technologies. Roivant is a parent company to over a dozen subsidiaries ranging from Immunovant, a majority-owned public company focused on autoimmune diseases, to privately held Dermavant Sciences, a commercial-stage company focused on medical dermatology. Roivant also develops healthcare technologies through its business unit Roiva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivek Ramaswamy 2024 Presidential Campaign
Vivek Ramaswamy began his 2024 presidential campaign on February 21, 2023, as a candidate in the 2024 Republican primary. He formally launched his candidacy at an interview on the ''Tucker Carlson Tonight'' show. In his campaign announcement, Ramaswamy pitched himself as a conservative with a vision for American national identity. On January 15, 2024, Ramaswamy suspended his campaign, subsequent to the Iowa caucuses. According to ''Politico'', Ramaswamy was inspired by Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election, and wanted to run "with an entrepreneurial spirit, unorthodox ideas, and few expectations." Ramaswamy considered a candidacy in the 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio, but decided not to run. Since that time, he had been mooted as a potential future presidential candidate. If elected, he would have been the first Indian-American president and youngest person to ever assume the presidency. His central campaign promise was an extensive and sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivek Ramaswamy
Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy (born August 9, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and politician. He founded Roivant Sciences, a Biotechnology, biotech Pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical company in 2014 and was its Chief executive officer, CEO until 2021. Ramaswamy declared Vivek Ramaswamy 2024 presidential campaign, his candidacy for the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries, Republican presidential primaries in 2023. He finished fourth in the 2024 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses, Iowa caucuses in January 2024 and withdrew his bid, thereupon endorsing Donald Trump for the 2024 United States presidential election, 2024 presidential election. In February 2025, Ramaswamy launched his 2026 Ohio gubernatorial election, 2026 Ohio gubernatorial campaign and received an endorsement from President Trump. Ramaswamy was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Indian Americans, Indian immigrant parents. He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in biology and later e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'', locally known as ''The'' ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'' or ''WP'', is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and has a national audience. As of 2023, the ''Post'' had 130,000 print subscribers and 2.5 million digital subscribers, both of which were the List of newspapers in the United States, third-largest among U.S. newspapers after ''The New York Times'' and ''The Wall Street Journal''. The ''Post'' was founded in 1877. In its early years, it went through several owners and struggled both financially and editorially. In 1933, financier Eugene Meyer (financier), Eugene Meyer purchased it out of bankruptcy and revived its health and reputation; this work was continued by his successors Katharine Graham, Katharine and Phil Graham, Meyer's daughter and son-in-law, respectively, who bought out several rival publications. The ''Post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Thiessen
Marc Alexander Thiessen (born January 13, 1967) is an American conservative author, political appointee, and weekly columnist for ''The Washington Post''. Thiessen served as a speechwriter for President George W. Bush from 2007 to 2009 and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld from 2001 to 2006. In 2010, he published the book ''Courting Disaster: How the C.I.A. Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack'', which defended the use of the torture technique waterboarding during the George W. Bush administration, arguing that it was not torture. He also wrote that the Obama administration's rejection of torture might lead to American deaths. Early life and education Thiessen was born on January 13, 1967. He grew up on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, where both his parents were doctors and "left-of-center liberal Democrat types". His mother grew up in Poland and fought as a teenager in the Warsaw Uprising, a military struggle in which his grandfather died. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opinion Piece
An opinion piece is an article, usually published in a newspaper or magazine, that mainly reflects the author's opinion about a subject. Opinion pieces are featured in many periodicals. Editorials Opinion pieces may take the form of an editorial, usually written by the senior editorial staff or publisher of the publication, in which case the opinion piece is usually unsigned and may be supposed to reflect the opinion of the periodical. In major newspapers, such as the ''New York Times'' and the ''Boston Globe'', editorials are classified under the heading "opinion." Columns Other opinion pieces may be written by a (regular or guest) columnist. Such pieces, referred to as "columns", may be strongly opinionated, and the opinion expressed is that of the writer (and not the periodical). However, not all columns are opinion pieces; for example, columnists may write columns that are nonsensical and solely intended for their humouristic effect. Op-eds An op-ed (abbreviated from "oppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JD Health
JD Health (JDH; ) is a Chinese company listed in Hong Kong that focuses on providing digital health services and resources. It is currently the healthcare unit of JD.com (JD). History JDH was founded in 2014 when the healthcare business of JD started operating as a stand-alone business unit. Hillhouse Investment was among the investors in JDH. In August 2020, JDH launched 'JD Family Doctor,' a telemedicine service designed to provide who families—to eight people—with continuous, personalized online healthcare. Subscribers received 24-hour access to general practitioners via text, photo uploads, voice, and video consultations, along with prescriptions, follow-up visits, and hospital appointment bookings. Despite substantial investment and ambitious goals—including plans to serve 50 million families within five years—the division struggled to gain traction and achieve profitability. Resistance from doctors affiliated with public hospitals further strained operations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DiDi
Didi Chuxing Technology Company is a Chinese vehicle for hire company headquartered in Beijing with over 550 million users and tens of millions of drivers. The company provides app-based transportation services, including taxi hailing, private car hailing, social ride-sharing, and bike sharing; on-demand delivery services; and automobile services, including sales, leasing, financing, maintenance, fleet operation, electric vehicle charging, and co-development of vehicles with automakers. The company is a subsidiary of Xiaoju Kuaizhi Inc. History 2012–2014: founding of Didi Dache In June 2012, following eight years working in Alibaba's sales and Alipay divisions, Cheng Wei founded Didi Dache ( zh, labels=no, s=嘀嘀打车), a taxi-hailing app, through Beijing Xiaoju Keji Co. ( zh, labels=no, s=小桔科技; xiaoju meaning "little orange"), which then changed to zh, labels=no, s=滴滴打车. "" means "beep beep" in Mandarin (like a car's horn). The application was the init ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temasek (company)
Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited ( ) is a Singaporean state-owned multinational investment firm. Incorporated on 25 June 1974, Temasek has a net portfolio of US$288 billion (S$389 billion) as of 2024. Headquartered at Orchard Road, Singapore, it has 14 offices in 10 countries around the world, including in Beijing, Brussels, Hanoi, London, Mexico City, Mumbai, New York City, Paris, Milan, San Francisco, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Washington D.C. It is an active shareholder and investor, with four key structural trends guiding its long term portfolio construction—Digitisation, Sustainable Living, Future of Consumption, and Longer Lifespans. Temasek's portfolio covers a broad spectrum of sectors. Its key focus investment areas include Consumer, Media & Technology, Life Sciences & Agri-Food, and Non-Bank Financial Services. Temasek has held overall corporate global credit ratings of “Aaa/AAA” by rating agencies Moody's and Standard & Poor's respectively since its inaugural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
