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...On an investor call in October, Coca-Cola chief executive James Quincey pointed out that Gen Z consumers, born between roughly 1997 and 2012, spend seven to nine hours a day on a screen but “very little...
...Having a fast-ageing population, reluctant to embrace e-payments, has not helped. But change is afoot....
...Allbirds, founded in 2015, raised $100m in a Series E funding round in September last year, valuing it at $1bn....
...The latter division has already witnessed a clampdown on its supersized money market fund, Yu’E Bao, in 2017....
...Clearly there is,” said Peter Alexander, managing director at Z-Ben, a Shanghai-based consultancy, of Ant’s arrangement with the fund managers....
...“Managers including Penghua, E Fund, China Universal and a host of others have raised billions in a matter of hours for new equity launches, heavily supported by the move out of money market funds....
...Assets held in Yu’e Bao reached a peak of about $250bn in 2018, illustrating the power of Ant’s technology to drive investor inflows....
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...However, Motivate’s dock-based system has been challenged by free-floating bike-sharing systems, such as those pioneered by ofo and Mobike in China, and Uber’s Jump....
...“These products’ biggest customers are millennials and Gen Z. Younger folks adopt tech products much faster,” she said....
...Back then, his father, a longshoreman, wanted the younger Iovine to follow him into a career on the docks....
...Chris Powers, an analyst at Z-Ben Advisors, the Shanghai-based consultancy, said: “We have had several clients ask us about [teaming up with Chinese internet groups]....
...It has already signed up Discovery Communications, A+E Networks, Vivendi’s Universal Music and Warner Music Group....
...When the credit cycle turned down, even the triple-A rated tranches of these instruments turned out to be triple-Z....
...JD.com, an electronic e-commerce company....
...China’s Harvest recently confirmed plans to set up a London arm, while E Fund Management told FTfm in July that it is considering opening offices in New York and London....
...Yu’e Bao has certainly changed how people see the asset management industry.”...
...This is an apparent reference to Buy n Large, the fictional mega-corporation in Pixar’s animated movie Wall-E that dominates governments and causes so much pollution that humans are forced to move into spaceship...
...Related reading: Fished out, FT Magazine (2008) China’s urban balancing act, FT Overfishing depletes fish stocks in E. China Sea, CNTV China environment file, beyondbrics...
...Bulk terminals contain plenty of fuel, but stations have been running dry after Sandy damaged docks, tanks, pumps and power lines across the region....
...At the end of last year, Gwyneth Paltrow received a plaintive e-mail....
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...As well as turning the tablet into a mini-laptop, the dock can extend battery life from about 9.5 hours to 16 hours and offers two USB ports and an SD Card reader....
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...Where once we dug out an A-Z and absorbed the route as we plotted our way across town, now we simply punch co-ordinates into the TomTom or smartphone....
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