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...As well as manufacturing and packaging chips in-house, they often outsource older chips to contract manufacturers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, United Microelectronics Corp and GlobalFoundries...
...Record foreign investment inflows are doing a poor job of papering over the cracks in the Malaysian economy....
...Many industry observers give Xiaomi full points for doing just that....
...Where once they were perceived as an exotic, upscale choice for dates, business meetings and even weddings they are now increasingly looked upon as mundane....
...Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corp., the world's No 3 contract chipmaker, also saw its profit fall....
...That has led to clashes between governments and the tech industry over issues like privacy and where companies are allowed to store resources like client data, or encryption standards....
...Mr Niinami, 57, had earned a reputation as an effective operator in 12 years at the helm of Lawson, Japan’s second-biggest convenience store chain....
...The fact that NIOC was designated by the US as an affiliate of the guards could damage the reputation of any company doing business with it....
...McDonald’s said earlier this month that same store sales in the Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa region continued to suffer the effects of the scandal, dropping 4.8 per cent in the fourth quarter, year...
...“The cost of doing business in these outlying areas is higher than Java because of these problems.”...
...He indicated that they should not interfere in politics but reassured senior commanders that he put no store in “rumours” that the corps was a threat to private companies....
...However, with no human-to-human infections yet confirmed, most companies are conducting business as usual....
...For opposing the Communist government, says Mr Chang, “Taiwanese were seen as bad guys, renegades. Now look at the gangsters – actually they are doing well.”...
...Will Amazon agree to pay more tax in the UK as Starbucks just agreed to do? @Barneyjopson: While Starbucks has bowed to pressure, there’s no sign of Amazon doing that....
...“We’ve got to start doing this stuff at scale,” says Mr Kuper....
...Penney, the department store chain....
...Next door to luxury jeweller Mauboussin, the casual clothes retailer g.u. is doing a brisk business offering cotton maxi dresses for Y990....
...But you can make it as unattractive as possible.”...
...As a result, companies can store and analyse information on every aspect of the world around them. The era of Big Data is at hand....
...But – if their role is broadly defined, as it must be at global companies – practitioners of the discipline have a good claim to be doing one of the most complex, challenging and important jobs in modern...
...Early attempts to integrate products and create digital content stores to rival iTunes flopped, while Apple – a niche computer-maker with no entertainment assets – swept the field....
...Even South Africa, which took umbrage at the thought of doing business with agents who often doubled as illegal immigrants who don’t pay taxes, seems to be softening....
...At one corner a concept convenience store is doing a roaring trade with its upmarket takeaway food and special selection of Muji products....
...There’s a way of doing business in Japan and, if you make it to the rank of chief executive as a foreigner, you follow it – unless, like Carlos Ghosn at Nissan or Michael Woodford at Olympus, you were brought...
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