By Supantha Mukherjee and Foo Yun Chee STOCKHOLM/BRUSSELS, Jan 16 (Reuters) - TikTok, Shein, Xiaomi ( XIACF ) and three other Chinese companies were named in a privacy complaint filed on Thursday by Austrian advocacy group Noyb which claimed the firms were unlawfully sending European Union user data to China. Noyb is known for filing complaints against American companies such...

(This Jan. 15 story has been corrected to clarify that registration is allowed with a foreign phone number, and not require users to have a Chinese phone number, in paragraph 11) By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Users of the Chinese social media app RedNote welcomed TikTok refugees from the United States with selfies and messages on Wednesday, as Beijing...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Cartier jewellery owner Richemont on Thursday reported a 10% increase in constant currency sales during the three months to the end of December, a strong early indicator for the performance of European luxury companies over the all-important holiday season. Sales at actual rates increased to 6.2 billion euros ($6.37 billion), said the company, which also owns high-end...

LONDON (Reuters) - An exodus of companies from London's Alternative Investment (AIM) market is set to accelerate into 2025, even as Britain's policymakers try to revive the country's capital markets, bankers and financial advisers to AIM companies told Reuters. Already in 2025, Britain's Alliance Pharma agreed to sell itself to asset management firm DBAY Advisors, and online marketing firm Team...