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...The country suffers from burdensome bureaucracy, a highly complex tax system and poor transportation infrastructure....
...The latter boasts a strong position in debt market and derivatives analytics and a host of corporate research in areas like transportation, aerospace and trade....
...“The way you think about algorithms is wildly and completely different,” says Bob Sutor of IBM....
...First, Didi is looking to new markets in Latin America....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...Of course, that last part in particular suggests that Uber could indeed be no mere provider of transportation services in one way. Its true business edge is legal and regulatory arbitrage....
...As smart-phones go the way of washing machines or even the car — i.e. from scarce commodities to common goods — here too we can expect manufacturers to compete on robustness, quality, service and life-time...
...Amazonfresh v Ocado Brooke Masters has been comparing Amazon’s Fresh grocery delivery service, launched in the UK this week, with her regular home deliveries from Ocado. Fresh had one key flaw....
...“People focus on hardware way too much — it’s a content business, not a technology business,” he continues. “You can’t put Grand Theft Auto V on an iPhone, it’s not the same experience....
...It’s not anchored to a specific desktop product in the way that Bloomberg or Reuters are, so it won’t be hit by the cost cuts taking place at banks,” said one person close to the deal....
...(Wall Street Journal) Google supports VR spatial audio Google’s Cardboard virtual reality viewer now supports spatial audio – “producing sound the same way humans can actually hear it”....
...When Lenovo acquired IBM’s PC division, the company struggled with integration issues, substandard services and with the exodus of technical employees, so that market share and profitability fell....
...“We will continue to look for additional ways to do so.”...
...“We’re getting worse, slower and more expensive,” says Dan Smith, of Tioga Group, a transportation consultancy....
...(All extracts below by way of Factiva.) Just because, you know, not everyone was around during Dotcom bubble V.1....
...their way out of the laboratory into run-of-the-mill reality....
...the way it interprets that law....
...The two airlines intend to co-ordinate their UK-US services in much the same way as BA and American Airlines do, in a joint venture that should start with annual sales of $3bn....
...He adds that the country is now competing with the west in ways that would astound many outsiders....
...Selling more high-priced, high-margin drugs has left a hole to be filled, with generic competition escalating and health services balking at the bill....
...The services are especially popular in emerging markets such as Mexico, Peru, South Africa and India where bank branches are few and far between, roads are poor or non existent and transportation options...
...Dattaraj V. Salgaocar (V. M. Salgaocar Group) Harsh Pati Singhania (J.K. Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
...The result, as in the case of “James v UMG Recordings”, is a courtroom war of attrition. Zombie and the other acts in the suit have been fought every step of the way by Universal’s legal team....
...The city’s bridges reopened and some bus services were set to resume by Tuesday afternoon, but the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said it was too early to say when subways would be running again....
...But the pros outweigh for the cons. “[It] keeps us honest,” says Mr Allason. “It’s the best advertising we can do.”...
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