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...Foxconn’s gamble Apple’s production ingenuity has been amplified by a hierarchical government intent on creating jobs, developing expertise and winning the orders of multinational corporations....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 23. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The New Yorker reports on the basic income experiment in Stockton, California....
...Last year, George Osborne, then UK chancellor, faced harsh criticism for striking a deal with Google that allowed the California group to pay £130m in back taxes despite earning $5.6bn in UK revenues in...
...Value is created by the development and production of goods and services, not consumption.”...
...UFJ, Mizuho Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation....
...Under the ownership of a big multinational, the “beer might be OK for a while, maybe a year but ultimately the beer’s going to go downhill and the brewery becomes a pawn in these big mega-corporation games...
...corporation with a transparent pricing strategy supposed to gain an edge?...
...California-based Palo Alto logged a net loss of $38.7m for its fiscal first quarter, wider than a loss of $30.1m in the same period in 2014....
...The bonus of about $200 he received from his employer, Nichia Corporation, for perfecting the process for blue LED production now looked derisory....
...very quickly and provide, ironically, an excellent data-mining resource for almost any corporation, hacker or government....
...Although the American banker is not alone among a new wave of investors in the continent, which includes private equity firms such as KKR and Carlyle and state-owned funds including Investment Corporation...
...For companies – from multinational corporations to small businesses – this amounts to higher costs for a resource that has long been taken for granted....
...Their argument revolves around the cheapness of computers compared with traditional investment: it costs less to raise output via a new version of Windows than a new production line....
...“And we have one of the most profitable corporations in the world [Apple] stashing $100bn in [low-tax] jurisdictions.”...
...It was bought in 2006 by the Aber Diamond Corporation....
...The method was not an invention of the cocoa industry, but rather a simple copy of a system used successfully in California for forecasting almond crops....
...Shares in Californian rare-earth miner Molycorp climbed 4.8 per cent to $25.12 after the company said more than three-quarters of phase-one production at its flagship California manufacturing facility had...
...In 2007 PetroChina, the listed arm of the China National Petroleum Corporation, became notionally the world’s largest company by market capitalisation, helped by a thin float of shares available to investors...
...Zhang Xun, president of China Film Cooperation Corporation, the state outlet which supervises co-productions, says CFCC rejected a script from Taiwan about a policeman with mafia ties....
...Los Alamos initially helped P&G to regulate the production of the absorbent gel used in nappies, using theoretical data analysis systems developed for weapons technology....
...A veteran reporter, Holstein expended a lot of shoe leather in his researches, from Massachusetts to California, and he does an excellent job of describing what he sees and letting his subjects speak for...
...Meanwhile, Hulu, an online video site owned by the TV networks NBC Universal, News Corporation’s Fox, Walt Disney’s ABC and Providence Equity Partners, has recently launched a subscription service....
...MGM owns the biggest film library in Hollywood with 4,000 titles but is up for sale after a failed attempt to relaunch the studio as a production force....
...Mr Fuller was brought into the Bel Ami project after a meeting with Uberto Pasolini, who is also producing the film. Bel Ami is likely to be followed by other production deals involving Mr Fuller....
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