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...Fed chair Jay Powell is accelerating the central bank’s consideration of a possible digital version of the dollar. Lex says he is still behind the curve....
...The former offers day-trips to space for the unspeakably wealthy, the latter hydrogen fuel systems for equipment and electric cars....
...So, if you’d like to talk about the experience, do get in touch at jamie.powell@ft.com....
...(FT) Opioids Inc The pharmaceutical company Insys has come a long way from its former status as a Wall Street darling....
...Its bid for Qualcomm, whose board has rebuffed its $70-a-share offer as too meagre, is likely to prove a high water mark in the current consolidation frenzy....
...Dutch paintmaker Akzo Nobel and its US rival Axalta Coating Systems have terminated talks over a multibillion dollar merger after failing to reach an agreement....
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...Cars are already crammed with hundreds of semiconductor chips to fire airbags, run infotainment system and control brakes....
...… Talking to Terrorists: How to End Armed Conflicts, by Jonathan Powell, Random House, RRP£20 As Tony Blair’s chief of staff, Powell played a key role in the Northern Ireland peace negotiations....
...Alan Cane, Joseph Menn and Richard Waters...
...The IBM brand legitimised the PC in the business marketplace and established the Microsoft operating system as the industry standard....
...Brazil to extend its welfare programme Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff has launched an expansion of the government’s politically popular welfare system, which is credited with lifting millions out of poverty...
...Brazil to extend its welfare programme Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff has launched an expansion of the government’s politically popular welfare system, which is credited with lifting millions out of...
...Within this division both waste water and water desalination look like promising opportunities for the Group....
...With a range of smartphones and tablet computers due to launch this year, many of them based on Microsoft’s latest versions of Windows or Google’s Android operating system, they hope to launch the first...
...Bottled water Pearson: “The only brand really going up is Evian, with its Roller Babies campaign which was very successful.”...
...Mr Gould said bringing together all the key components of the drilling process would help develop more sophisticated integrated systems....
...But unlike Danone’s core yoghurt and waters business, it has proved relatively safe from the economic downturn....
...Ideas under discussion include water boiling systems for steam irons, novel heating elements for toasters and new control systems for machines such as rice cookers....
...It also set a new high-water mark for annual meetings in a year marked by battles about pay across Europe and an increase in No votes....
...As part of that plan, Industrial Bank has established a green credit system with help from the International Finance Corporation, the private sector investment arm of the World Bank which owns 3.2 per cent...
...“You buy a GPS [global positioning system] unit and cycle around the roads,” he says. “It drops a data point every second, like Hansel and Gretel dropping breadcrumbs.”...
...John Chambers, the chief executive of Cisco Systems, likes to spend a little time each morning running on a treadmill while he watches the news....
...Navigation devices emerged as a consumer category only after 2000, when the US government relaxed the technological restrictions that had prevented public use of its GPS satellite navigation system....
...Franck Riboud, Danone chairman and chief executive, said a disposal would allow the group to concentrate on its two other divisions, which are focused on dairy products and mineral water and are more in...
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