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...Need to know: global economy IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said China was at a “fork in the road” and must choose between past policies and “pro-market reforms” to get growth....
...It sold just 300,000 units, according to a Wall Street Journal report this summer, suggesting it remains a niche product. Meta has not confirmed the figure....
...Imagine a shopping agent, for instance, that not only hunts out the products you want but goes ahead and pays for them as well....
...Although it has achieved sales of more than 250,000 scooters a year, taking the product to market has been challenging....
...Michael Mohr, global head of Xtracker products, struck a similar note....
...But even if Google’s search deals shut out competitors, the company would still prevail if it can show pro-competitive intent for its conduct....
...In the reverse, WWE made $130mn from consumer products such as toys; UFC’s equivalent was just $55mn....
...In each case, the product is the safety of familiarity....
...As a father who happens to be a tech journalist, my search for the family trip turned into a lecture explaining to my daughter the pros and cons of generative AI....
...Lina Khan, the pro-competition chair of the Federal Trade Commission, has said repeatedly that concentration in the supermarket industry has hurt consumers and suppliers....
...PM: Do you have any reason to think Meta’s fee structure, or their rules, are going to be less onerous and more pro developer?...
...Labour is anxious not to be painted as pro-Brussels while a dispute continues over Northern Ireland....
...Sniper Labs offers tools to allow “Pro” NFT buyers “snipe” NFTs on the Solana blockchain....
...Politico is profitable, despite two rounds of defections that saw former staff set up competing products....
...The big inflow of new investor money has also provided a windfall for its sister product, the 3D Printing ETF (PRNT)....
...The commerce department last year put Cnooc on a separate blacklist — called the “entity list” — that makes it hard for US companies to sell products and technology to the Chinese oil group....
...It praises battery life and screen and says the camera system is extremely competitive with the iPhone 12 Pro Max....
...Pro tip: if you haven’t subscribed to Scoreboard, the FT’s weekly briefing on the business of sport, do so here....
...Smart reads Big oil’s secret weapon In 2017, a cluster of pro-fracking and natural gas groups began to speak out online....
...Bernie Ecclestone, the former F1 boss who ran the sport for CVC, said in 2017 that he was “embarrassed” at “selling this shitty product”....
...Regulators believe these companies are using the control they have of marketplaces where they also sell their own products and services to potentially disadvantage smaller competitors....
...The move will bar US companies from using government money to buy products from the Chinese telecoms groups....
...In response, Indian engineer and reformer Sonam Wangchuk called for a boycott of Chinese products....
...Tech tools — the new MacBook Pro Apple has unveiled a new MacBook Pro, with a bigger screen and apparently a much improved keyboard, after users complained bitterly about the performance of the previous...
...The Alexa voice-enabled product can make video calls and stream music and video content, including Amazon Prime, Spotify, Showtime and CBS All Access....
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