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...The writer is president of international, Bank of America It is always worth stepping back to assess where we stand on the historical arc of technological advancement....
...There are some big names among the members — tech giants Apple, Google, Microsoft and Sony; financial groups like Axa and Bank of America; industrial groups from Anglo American to Shell (the FT chief executive...
...Apple iPhones, MacBooks and Samsung Galaxy phones use the 5nm chips, Sony Playstations use 6nm....
...It is a haunting illustration of the game’s central theme: a modern America where cultural and financial institutions ensnare everyday people in their inscrutable machinations, stripping them of their autonomy...
...in Latin America....
...Imagine if, after Columbus’s voyage to the Americas, no European had repeated the journey for half a century....
...What you’ve been saying Letter from Michael V Sternberg in response to Eyes down and history books open for Brexit bingo Gideon Rachman’s excellent article lists a number of historical parallels to where...
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...The Thatcher-Reagan era of deregulation and globalisation — the free movement of goods, capital, labour and services — unleashed the global corporation....
...We should not assume that America is any different. Who’s the boss?...
...The concentrated brine that is produced is then driven west in small trucks to processing plants on Chile’s coast....
...He’s known for of computer performance, which calculates improvements possible with the parallel processing of data....
...Over the summer, a parallel post-trade collaboration emerged, when 13 leading financial services companies (including Goldman) revived plans to boost the effectiveness of a hub for the processing of swaps...
...Bank of America in the early days of Visa) most evolved into franchise networks and/or jointly controlled consortia or alliances, opening the door to the core Visa/Mastercard duopoly structure we have today...
...in “the grid”, a celluloid metaphor for the monopolistic tech corporations of the day....
...The International Finance Corporation in 2009 invested $15m in Dinant, in the first tranche of an expected $30m loan....
...Sperry Corporation to join Control Data Corporation....
...Hadoop is an open-source version of a parallel programming framework called MapReduce, originally developed at Google, the search engine company....
...His company sets prices for crop insurance by running big daily simulations of weather patterns to predict their impact on crop yields across the US – an exercise in parallel processing that means calling...
...Last year it became the majority owner of Japan Display, a company created by Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi that makes small liquid-crystal displays....
...via pipelines to processing terminals on the coast of British Columbia....
...(Financial Times) - What’s Sony up to?...
...In February, five banks – Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Ally Financial – agreed to a $25bn settlement with 49 states....
...As much a metaphor for bloated, consumerist America as it is a very good tale....
...Cohen subsequently made phone calls from an outdoor pay phone to tip his uncle David V....
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