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...Bank of America has named Anthony Knox as country executive for South Africa, according to a memo....
...ACV, which operates the south-east Asian country’s web of airports, will spread capacity among second-tier locations, Huyen said....
...From Apec, Srettha brought back 300bn baht in investment pledges from Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft....
...Larry Hagman was a nepo baby, as my father used to point out every time we watched Dallas (or South Pacific — Hagman’s mother Mary Martin originated one of the lead roles on Broadway)....
...Separately this week, Texas became the latest state — alongside South Dakota, South Carolina and Maryland — to ban the use of TikTok on government devices, citing the growing “threat of the Chinese Communist...
...In this situation you use finer tippet, the delicate material that looks like a strand of a spider’s web that’s tied to the fly....
...In-app shopfronts have already been piloted in the UK (unsuccessfully) and South-East Asia....
...“It was really almost like a global panic,” said Jade Arenstein, global service lead at Incubeta, a South Africa-based marketing performance company, of the impact of Apple’s changes....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on August 5 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...In slightly more understandably human, that means it maintains a software stack for building “Web 3” apps....
...Dakota can now do his IT job remotely, thanks to Mr Musk)....
...Naver Webtoon’s 14mn American users constituted 17 per cent of its global readership, compared with 25 per cent in South Korea, 15 per cent in south-east Asia, 8 per cent in Japan and 4 per cent in Europe...
...Women in parts of Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana — where there are few, if any, abortion providers — often had to travel more than 300 miles to reach the nearest abortion facility before Dobbs...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on June 28 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...and South Carolina will cast ballots in primaries as part of the 2022 midterm election cycle....
...Interaction with the tools in these countries is trailing behind others including South Korea, Brazil and India. “It is still very early to draw conclusions,” he adds....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 12. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Hansson had played an instrumental role trying to pass similar legislation in Arizona and North Dakota but to no avail....
...Mostly from China, but also other south-east Asian nations, victims are kidnapped by these groups, held captive and forced, under threat of violence, to perpetrate web scams....
...The European Central Bank also observed on Wednesday that the recent surge in bitcoin’s price had “eclipsed previous financial bubbles like the ‘tulip mania’ and the South Sea Bubble in the 1600s and 1700s...
...That dot turned out to be no cause for concern, but the early scare launched her on an obsessive bid to scour the web, books and her network to learn more about pregnancy....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on April 6 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...Apple and Google are getting rid of these tracking tools to protect the privacy of users as they move around the web....
...Amazon has named Adam Selipsky, chief executive of Salesforce’s Tableau Software unit, as the new head of Amazon Web Services. More here....
...PDVSA would sell its non-oil-related assets, ranging from real estate to agricultural holdings, plus other units across South America....
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