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...The XuanTie 910 employs RISC-V, an open-source instruction set architecture based on a project begun in 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley....
...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
...Meanwhile, R&D spending lags behind that of Asia and the US....
...Lazard, the bank advising the retailer, and Toys R Us declined to comment. HMRC said it always tried to find a solution for taxpayers in difficulty, and added: “We don’t do ‘aggression’.”...
...Such disputes are rooted in US anxiety over China’s tech power and the methods it employs to amass it....
...A solution may lie in the streaming services that Disney is working towards launching....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 4 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...According to Mr Dai, the blockchain industry in Vietnam employs about 2,000 people, up from 30 in 2017....
...The US solar industry employs more than twice as many workers as the coal sector, a report showed in February....
...In Frugal Innovation, Prof Prabhu and Navi Radjou criticise the old industrial R&D model that “values perfect solutions over general usefulness”....
...The programme’s goal is “to employ a leadership force that can think differently about seemingly intractable community, national, global problems and bring innovative solutions”, says Prof Kanter....
...Then, it was baby steps: relationships with local universities, or cross-industry R&D....
...Toys R Us’s solution has been to open pop-up shops, 600 of them in the US this Christmas, each around 4000 sq ft, much smaller than its permanent stores, but in shopping malls and high streets where it does...
...LSE in talks over London clearing house - Hicks in bid to keep Liverpool FC - Banks rediscover taste for buy-out financing in CVC/Sunrise deal - Size of Petrobras issue rises to R$134...
...Opened in 2000 with 275 scientists and engineers, today the centre employs 4,300 – or one in six of GE’s researcher “technologists” worldwide....
...Sun Microsystems has launched two virtualisation solutions for SMEs. The offerings pair Sun’s Fire servers and storage hardware with either VMWare ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V virtualisation software....
...The air and ocean freight company operates in more than 80 countries and employs 14,000 people....
...Part of the solution lies in forging stronger partnerships between the private sector and academia....
...American businessmen are too busy to have lunch – or, to be more precise, Jeffrey R. Immelt, chairman and chief executive of General Electric, can’t find the time to eat a meal with me....
...Its R&D centre in Shanghai employs about 40 scientists who work in co-operation with the company’s other four global R&D facilities to select new clinical drugs for Roche’s global R&D strategy....
...This was the case with General Electric and its Insurance Solutions division....
...Rather than wait for a culture clash, there are approaches that executives can employ to ensure cultural learning....
...It now employs more than 100 on a 3,000sq metre site that for hygiene and security reasons is aparticularly charmless, windowless but spotless bunker ....
...Bank of America employs ranchers and vintners to keep such properties humming along. This can make it easier for wealthy parents to let their children find their own way....
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