Hints and tips:
...“Regrettably, Gallup has made the decision to close its operations in China,” the company said in a notice seen by the Financial Times....
...Merchants are currently able to charge an extra fee for consumers who use American Express cards, but Visa and Mastercard have blocked sellers from doing so for their users....
...But, of course, there’s a reason why it’s widely called Shitibank; the sprawling, gormless Citi has for a v v v very long time proven adept at blithely ambling onto various rakes around the world....
...“I want to personally apologise to our team members who felt we let them down,” NBCUniversal News chair Cesar Conde told staff on Tuesday in a memo seen by the Financial Times....
...Many Americans, sceptical and fatigued, are tuning out of the news entirely....
...Chairwoman Le Thi Thu Thuy shared her reasons for optimism at the Nikkei and Financial Times’ Asia Green Tech Summit....
...At the time, there was one brand — Burger King — with a network of 12,000 outlets across 70 countries. So-called system sales from all the outlets that used the brand were $15bn....
...“That’s a sad commentary on the state of American politics. Now I know why they call this the political silly season.”...
...Waymo told the Financial Times that it had “a couple of hundred cars” in each of the three fully autonomous zones....
...Ford dominates the North American pick-up market so its chief executive was curious to look at the competition....
...Tim Sweeney told the Financial Times he was worried Google would offer “fake” remedies to the Californian court that on Monday found the search company was abusing an alleged monopoly over the Android app...
...Americans for Prosperity Action, a super Pac backed by billionaire Charles Koch’s network, supported Haley and warned that Trump would drag down the rest of the party in 2024....
...Manifold told the Financial Times that CRH would make more acquisitions in “high-growth areas” such as Texas, Florida, Poland, Romania and south-eastern Europe....
...Other countries, including the US, UK, Australia, Canada, France, and New Zealand, have banned the app from government devices as well as Wi-Fi networks in universities and colleges....
...(Pimco) — The PagerDuty CEO who quoted Martin Luther King in her mass sacking email is v v v sorry....
...“Apple is an American company and will prioritise US interests.”...
...Gap is basically a huge distribution network for inexpensive cotton clothes, just as McDonald’s is basically a huge distribution network for fat, sugar, salt and caffeine....
...“Clients are saying we can no longer work with American consulting firms,” said one executive at a US consultancy....
...Rivian also has just joined companies like Ford and General Motors in agreeing to tap into the Tesla network....
...Financial markets may have hit the buffers last year, but this did make one type of investment a lot more popular: buffered exchange traded funds....
...“Right now, they can’t upset banks, and they can’t separate network partners — it’s too important for distribution at the start,” says a former Apple employee....
...He takes a shot at the Financial Times, as well....
...In 2017, Nike said it would begin trimming its network of retail partners from some 30,000 accounts to just 40....
...Financial institutions collect a cut of the fees that card networks impose, making them quite lucrative....
...The Turner television networks are in Atlanta....
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