(RTTNews) – HBT Financial, Inc. (HBT) and CNB Bank Shares, Inc. (CNBN), on Monday announced a merger deal through which CNBN will merge with and into HBT in a transaction of around $170.2 million, based on HBT’s 15-day volume weighted average share price of $24.44 as of October 1

The internet appears to be recovering after a major outage knocked out thousands of websites, including Amazon, Snapchat, Reddit and several banks.

Dozens of websites, banks and apps are being affected by a major internet outage. 

When your phone is no longer sitting flush in its case, it’s a big, honking sign of danger.

For decades, the annual target for gross domestic product growth was the most critical policymaking benchmark across China.
In pursuit of that all-important figure, officials around the country embarked on a spree of infrastructure investment, industrial expansion and resource mobilisation that helped make China the world’s second-largest economy and lift 800 million people out of poverty.
But as growth rates have slowed, that outlook may have lost some of its resonance. Attention has turned to…

The French beauty giant will acquire Kering’s fragrance line Creed, as well as rights to develop products under Kering’s fashion labels Bottega Veneta and Balenciaga under a 50-year exclusive license.

Key PointsAmazon is now allowing U.S. Prime members to add items to already-scheduled deliveries.

Liu Qian is the founder of Wusawa Advisory and formerly the managing director of The Economist Group in Greater China. She is also a prominent advocate for gender equality, and the only Chinese representative in the core working group of the UN Women Leaders Network. In this interview, she discusses how Chinese innovation differs from Western innovation, where the US-China rivalry is headed and the critical role of women’s voices in policymaking.
This interview first appeared in SCMP Plus. For…