Abid Ali has more than a decade of experience covering global business.
Before joining Al Jazeera as business editor in 2008, he edited and copyedited business news at CNN - both on air and online. He has also covered markets and big industry as a reporter for Bloomberg News.
<p>Nokia's attempts to sue Apple over patent infringements raises some interesting questions, such as why patenting works so differently in the drug industry.</p>
This is a passionate plea of the heart and not the head. It’s not business and should never be considered so.
<p>There was a time meetings of any G number - 7, 8, 10, 20 - would put many business reporters to sleep. But now the significance of this body can not be lost on anyone, the world needs a coordinated effort to make any economic recovery sustainable.</p>
<p>It’s a cliché from the best and worst of Hollywood movies. But it appears to be all the rage in investment circles. The next big idea: buying into China’s automakers.</p>
<p>When Lehman Brothers was thrown to the wolves, no one could have predicted the financial and political convulsions that followed. Stock markets tanked, credit markets froze and millions lost their jobs around the world.</p>
