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...In that vein, James Crabtree unpacks how Intel’s US expansion — detailed last week in #techAsia — highlights the fragility of Asian supply chains....
...Hello, Mercedes here from Singapore. Welcome back. This week, our Big Story scoop confirms that in tech, size matters....
...Mercedes’ top 10 From India to Thailand to Australia, Facebook is having a time of it in Asia....
...Don’t miss James Crabtree’s astute warnings over Facebook’s $5.7bn investment in India’s Reliance Jio (Mercedes’ Top 10) and a report on China’s Achilles heel in its tech rivalry with the US (When sages...
...In addition, don’t miss Mercedes’ piece on the frenetic competition between US and Chinese tech companies for south-east Asia’s cloud computing market (Mercedes’ Top 10)....
...Some useful perspective here on the hype around contact-tracing apps from James Crabtree in the Nikkei Asian Review....
...And don’t miss James Crabtree’s column (in Mercedes’ Top 10) for a punchy piece on how Huawei should be received in Asia....
...But recent reversals in the Chinese economy have hit JLR far harder than premium German rivals such as BMW and Mercedes....
...Mahindra is attempting to pick up a high-end foreign marque that it could potentially use to launch a line of luxury SUVs, to win a slice of a market that is proving profitable for companies like Porsche and Mercedes...
...On his analysis of the transaction data Crabtree, the appraiser, estimates that 15 per cent of home sales in Bakersfield from 2004 to 2007 involved straw buyers....
...InvestIndustrial’s offer also includes a technological partnership with Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz that could be considered a “trump card”, one person close to the deal said....
...But back in Pune, the growth of multinationals such as Mercedes and smaller businesses such as Microsupreme provides some hope....
...James Crabtree is the FT’s Mumbai correspondent...
...Long-time market leader Mercedes, meanwhile, has slipped to third, and recently announced plans to invest Rs4bn ($72m) in Asia’s third-largest economy over the next three years to catch up....
...This confidence in future expansion explains why so many foreign carmakers are upping investment, despite the current slowdown: Volkswagen, Toyota and Mercedes all unveiled plans to boost spending this month...
...One only has to look at Dublin’s streets, clogged with Audis, BMWs and Mercedes, to see that some of that German money is finding its way back to factory workers in Munich and Stuttgart....
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