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News in-depthBig Tech
China moves to take ‘golden shares’ in Alibaba and Tencent units
...The stakes, usually involving a 1 per cent share of internet groups’ key entities, are akin to “golden shares” as they come with special rights over certain business decisions....
January 13, 2023
US-China trade dispute
Chinese chip designers slow down processors to dodge US sanctions
...However, the US Department of Commerce was unlikely to grant such licences, said Kevin Wolf, an expert on export controls at Akin Gump....
November 7, 2022
FT Live
TNW Conference 2024 - The Next Web
Europe’s leading tech event for corporates, startups, investors and governments
Thursday, 20 JuneAmsterdam, Netherlands
FT CollectionsTech Exchange
Andrew Ng: ‘Do we think the world is better off with more or less intelligence?’
...Ryan McMorrow: When do you use these open-source AI models? Andrew Ng: I run multiple models on my laptop — Mistral, Llama, Zefa. And I use ChatGPT quite often....
December 19, 2023
ReviewBusiness books
FT Business Books — what to read this month
...How can employees tell when joining an organisation is akin to selling out?...
September 19, 2023
OutlookRyan McMorrow
Restless Beijingers rise up against Covid controls
...ryan.mcmorrow@ft.com...
November 29, 2022
Gardens
The King and I: a Highgrove House gardener on working with ‘the boss’
...Four acres of planting — akin to doing squats in the hundreds — will take it out of you, but it’s mindful work and time to yourself....
March 4, 2023
FT Live
Finance Disrupted at TNW Conference
Shaking The Foundations Of Finance | Formerly Future of Finance
Thursday, 20 JuneAmsterdam, Netherlands
Due Diligence
The Gulf oil company chasing $50bn in deals Premium content
...The group is able to pursue those transactions simultaneously thanks to its investment unit, akin to its own “investment bank”, led by former Morgan Stanley banker Klaus Froehlich....
August 9, 2023
News in-depthSam Bankman-Fried
Bankman-Fried’s fall cuts off big source of funds for Democrats
...During the election, Bankman-Fried sat out some high-profile races including Tim Ryan’s failed Senate campaign in Ohio, although Ryan had sought to refine the country’s infrastructure bill so as not to hit...
November 13, 2022
News in-depthChinese business & finance
Alibaba and Tencent’s darkening clouds
...James Mitchell, Tencent’s chief strategy officer, said many cloud vendors provided “cost-heavy solutions” akin to acting as an IT consultancy....
June 14, 2022
FT Globetrotter
A design lover’s guide to Toronto
...Inside are chairs by Ryan Legassicke where the legs have been replaced by a smattering of rough-hewn branches, nautical-cord pendant lights and a sprawling knotted chair made from industrial felt that inhabits...
October 10, 2022
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc
Bed Bath & Beyond ousts chief as home-goods retailer’s sales drop 25%
...The company, which has previously come under pressure from activist investor Ryan Cohen, said on Wednesday that the changes would enable it to “focus on reversing recent results, addressing supply chain...
June 29, 2022
News in-depthUK economy
FT economists survey: ‘anaemic’ economy needs ‘investment, investment, investment’
...Matthew Ryan: Elevated household energy bills remain a big obstacle for the UK economy....
January 2, 2024
ExplainerOil
What does banning Russian oil mean for global energy markets?
...“As an industry, we can’t lose sight of the returns,” said Ryan Lance, chief executive of ConocoPhillips, one of the largest producers in the US....
March 9, 2022
Tencent Holdings Ltd
Tencent confirms talks with Chinese antitrust regulators
...Ant is in the process of restructuring most of its business into a new entity called a financial holding company, which regulators will treat akin to a bank, as it hopes to salvage its business and make...
March 24, 2021
PwC
PwC to boost headcount by 100,000 over five years
...As regulators discuss standardised ESG disclosures akin to the international accounting rules agreed decades ago, all PwC staff needed at least “a baseline understanding” of ESG, said Tim Ryan, US chair....
June 15, 2021
FT Live
Building an AI-First Organisation
How can business leaders use AI to drive value?
Thursday, 25 AprilHôtel Lutetia, Paris, France
The Big Read
Meet the ‘crypto caucus’: the US lawmakers defending digital coins
...In the House, they include McHenry and his longtime friend Tim Ryan, a Democrat from Ohio who together have sponsored a new bill, the Keep Innovation in America Act....
March 31, 2022
Ant Group
Ant Group strikes deal with Chinese regulators over restructuring
...likely to need to raise capital to satisfy the PBoC rules for financial holding companies, which, along with requirements on capital adequacy, risk control and governance, make the holding vehicles more akin...
February 3, 2021
News in-depthAnt Group
Jack Ma’s Ant forced into arms of banks he once dubbed ‘pawnshops’
...But an expansive application of the rule would turn Ant from an asset-light tech company into a capital-heavy business more akin to a bank....
March 3, 2021
News in-depthAnt Group
China plots ‘rectification’ drive to bring Jack Ma’s Ant Group to heel
...Ant may also need to raise capital to satisfy PBoC guidelines, which along with requirements on capital adequacy, risk control and governance, make financial holding companies more akin to banks than tech...
December 30, 2020
PDD Holdings
Colin Huang, Shanghai’s secretive internet king
...“These were two different roads, Pinhaohuo was pushing to build warehouses and fulfilment, like a JD.com (akin to Amazon) for fresh produce, but the employees from the gaming company didn’t see it as viable...
December 23, 2020
Tencent Holdings Ltd
Tencent revenue surges as Chinese antitrust regulators circle
...Mr Lau said games, a big revenue driver for Tencent, were more akin to individual products rather than the platform businesses that regulators were targeting....
November 12, 2020
EU tech regulation
Irish data regulator under fire over dated software
...One former employee quoted by the ICCL described the current situation as akin to “trying to run your payroll system with an abacus”....
February 9, 2021
ExplainerGeorge Floyd protests
Who has been deployed on the streets of Washington?
...He answers to the secretary of the army, Ryan McCarthy, since Washington is not a state and has no governor....
June 4, 2020
Due Diligence
Can private equity find a bargain in the mayhem? Premium content
...Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has added Ryan Cox and Eric Williams, two former Haynes and Boone partners to its corporate group in Dallas....
March 18, 2020
US presidential election
Democratic contenders spar over healthcare and migration
...“We’ve got a perception problem with the Democratic Party,” Tim Ryan, the Ohio congressman, argued....
June 27, 2019

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