Amazon has suspended hundreds of top Chinese sellers over the past two months. The company seems to be just now enforcing its rules for blatant policy violations like manipulating customer reviews. Tactics that some of those sellers have used for years.

Link: https://www.marketplacepulse.com/articles/amazons-crackdown-on-chinese-sellers

Less than two weeks ago, we published an article with the headline “2021 is a unicorn frenzy.” At that point, there had been 199 new unicorns (private companies worth $1+ billion) created this year, per Crunchbase—up from 163 last year and the most in a decade.

Link: https://www.morningbrew.com/emerging-tech/stories/2021/07/09/unicorns-added-1-trillion-value-past-year

SoftBank Group Corp. plans to invest an additional $5 billion in Latin American companies, according to people familiar with the matter.

Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-09/softbank-said-to-prepare-5-billion-for-latin-america-funding