Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...congressional hearings, TikTok executives were grilled by US politicians who alleged that the Chinese Communist party could access the data of the app’s 170mn American users for espionage purposes under national...
...A site close to Kruger National Park in South Africa is becoming a testing ground for US attempts to fight China’s global dominance in critical minerals....
...The Chinese government has significant control over companies that operate in its jurisdiction, including being able to force them to hand over any national security-related data....
...Ballast for the theory comes from a National Bureau of Economic Research paper....
...David Ellison, who runs Skydance, has 30 days to reach a deal with the company controlled by Shari Redstone’s National Amusements (NAI), her family’s privately owned cinema group that holds 77 per cent of...
...But the company was ultimately unable to get permission to operate locally....
...It was taken over in 2012 by Leucadia National Corporation, an oil-to-beef conglomerate, but the merged company pared back its other investments to focus solely on investment banking work....
...The US House of Representatives on Saturday passed a package of national security bills that included legislation that would result in TikTok being banned in the country if Chinese parent company ByteDance...
...They will be made with blocks of expanded cork from the Portuguese company Corticeira Amorim....
...Second, although national security officials want stricter controls around how companies choose vendors and suppliers, this type of state interference tends to be anathema to the C-suite, who have, after...
...), the holding company through which she controls Paramount....
...planned to develop Rosebank to produce oil from 2026-2027, sparking criticism from environmental campaigners and politicians including Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s first minister and leader of the Scottish National...
...As for TikTok’s value as a boon to consumers and businesses, there are many companies that could quickly replace it....
...This time around, congressional leaders believe that stressing the national security risks posed by the Chinese-owned service will carry the day....
...US officials stress that Chinese national security laws would require its owner to hand over data if requested by Beijing....
...A bill requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok or face having the app banned over national security concerns passed in the Senate on Tuesday and is expected to be signed by President Joe Biden on Wednesday....
...The region’s big national airline groups, British Airways owner IAG, Air France-KLM and Lufthansa, are still flying smaller schedules than in 2019, after cautiously rebuilding their businesses from the pandemic...
...In raising concerns over the deal Biden did not refer to national security, speaking only of the need to maintain “strong American steel companies powered by American steel workers”....
...’s ownership structure was a national security risk....
...“The biggest barrier is insurance companies,” said Lawrence Honig, a neurologist at New York’s Columbia University Irving Medical Center....
...US security and intelligence officials have in recent days held classified briefings for lawmakers to stress what they say are the national security risks of allowing ByteDance, a Chinese company, to own...
...Boeing, another company in which financial engineering has replaced the real kind, is a timely case in point....
...The National Basketball Association is the next major sports league looking to sign a new media contract....
...The move followed briefings from national security officials who warned that China could gain access to Americans’ personal data held on the app....
...The model that some of ByteDance’s US investors are evaluating is similar to Shari Redstone’s National Amusements, which controls Paramount despite having a stake in the Hollywood media company of only about...
International Edition