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...Fink described the mismatch between what Americans were saving and what they would need as “a problem so big and urgent that government and corporate leaders [need to] stop business as usual [and] step out...
...“The impact of Liu He’s remarks will be shortlived without concrete actions,” added Dan Wang, chief economist at Hang Seng Bank China....
...The expansion is the first concrete sign that Apple plans to enhance its own advertising business at the same time as it shakes up the broader $350bn digital ads industry led by Facebook and Google....
...The return to old values or old ways of doing things that were more sustainable, as well as the new — developing tech and science that will change the world in the next decade just as much as the internet...
...Related stories Apple’s iPhone supply woes to continue into April: sources Samsung Galaxy faces delays on Vietnam entry limit Huawei tilts to telecom business as Beijing prepares big 5G push China’s...
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...“That is just not true — all we are doing is offering some pretty basic rights to consumers.”...
...But he claimed the company was not just coming up with “theoretical concepts”, adding: “They are concrete standards that will actively govern our research and product development and will impact our business...
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...In a symbolic blow, its once-supreme influence over corporate Japan has faded as the chairmanship of Keidanren, the biggest business lobby, was recently handed to the head of its main rival Hitachi....
...ADK had said that while its alliance with WPP — which included cross-shareholdings as well as a business partnership — had “initially provided a certain level of results”, a “concrete plan for collaboration...
...“The French have been very successful in doing interim measures for quite some time and that is, of course, of interest to us,” said the commissioner....
...as retail banking revenues sagged....
...And do we have concrete goals based on these priorities. Are we measuring on [a] regular basis? Do we have . . . motivated staff?...
...(FT) The Altice way of doing business: As the French cable company gets ready to launch its $20bn initial public offering in the US, Altice’s practice of charging management fees to its subsidiary groups...
...Other bans exist on companies in Russia’s defence sector, dealing with the annexed Crimean peninsula, importing dual-use technology and doing business with people blacklisted for their role in the Ukrainian...
...Its founder Michael Platt declared that the traditional fee model of “two and twenty” that has sustained the industry since its inception was “no longer a very profitable business”....
...As the HuffPo notes, the affair complicates one of Trump’s key lines of attack against rival Hillary Clinton, who Trump and his surrogates have accused of doing favours for donors to her family’s charitable...
...And for China Inc as a whole, the news was even worse....
...So just as some saw bitcoin as freedom from the state, the state itself saw bitcoin (or some kind of blockchain) as a useful tool for tax collection....
...The family was used to doing everything themselves....
...The eight sleek, military grey patrol boats sitting on the concrete of Maputo port would not look out of place in a James Bond movie. Their mission?...
...Such incentives may be the only way to wrest business from established exchanges that enjoy powerful network effects....
...Therefore, instead of buying up one company, having a little stake in each other, knowing each other, and enjoying synergies — that could be [a] more concrete way of doing this,” he said....
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