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...Several companies are showcasing products that can detect the mood not only of humans but also of their pets....
...Some car executives and analysts expect Tesla’s process — which Musk calls “gigacasting” — to set a new benchmark for building vehicles, replacing the vaunted Toyota Production System based on just-in-time...
...The activist, known for waging battles at companies including JCPenney, Allergan and Canadian Pacific Railway, is employing the same bare-knuckle tactics at his alma mater, including calling for the removal...
...A multinational consumer company such as Unilever currently has very little real-time insight into how their products sell at small storefronts in India, for example....
...More than 90m more are “underbanked”: they hold a bank account but lack sufficient access to investment products, insurance or credit....
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...The proposed takeover will create a 20,000-mile network stretching across the continent, from the port of St John on Canada’s Atlantic coast to the Mexican port of Lázaro Cárdenas on the Pacific....
...But Sony’s medical products, and even its life insurance business, might turn out to be hidden strengths in the world after coronavirus....
...If Chinese companies win licences, they will start taking deposits from and providing loans and investment products to local business customers by the middle of next year....
...Such loans and the investment products are highly illiquid and generally take two to three years to generate a cash flow....
...At Waterdrop Inc, a healthcare crowdfunding and insurance start-up with more than 4,000 employees and backers such as Tencent and Meituan, executives took a 20 per cent pay cut and employees were laid off...
...Although foreign products could in theory be certified as “secure and controllable”, this push largely means stripping out foreign vendors, say cyber security companies....
...“It is the companies’ job to come up with the right projects or products that can help my department to reach that goal,” he said....
...He warns that similar equity joint venture partnerships have not worked as expected, pointing to the example of the alliance between Russell Investment and Ping An, the insurance company, which ended after...
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...The company remains focused on building its core strength with Chinese institutional investors, both onshore and offshore....
...Perhaps the most controversial project is taking shape in nearby Koh Kong Province, where Chinese construction company Union Development Group is building another deepwater port and an unusually large international...
...Mr Theseira noted that tie-ups with local taxi companies would be “an obvious way of building critical mass quickly”....
...Tax benefits will be offered for the purchase of retirement insurance products in the programme scheduled to start in May in Shanghai, Fujian province and an industrial park in Suzhou....
...This figure doesn't even include the Pacific states, where industrialists received their own set of land grants after the Pacific Railway Act of 1862....
...Among buildings that have been completed are two 28-storey towers housing about 8,000 employees of various companies, including Tata Consultancy Services and Oracle....
..., consumer products and natural resources....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on June 05 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...AMP owns two of Australia’s biggest shopping centres, the Macquarie Centre in Sydney and Pacific Fair on Queensland’s Gold Coast....
...DRW, already active in cryptocurrency and commercial real estate, has hired a team to swap physical cargoes of petroleum products on the US Gulf coast — a market where deals are normally settled in weeks...
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