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...These began to receive government support after a switch from investment in heavy manufacturing....
...AMD has promised the next generation of chips based on its Zen microarchitecture by the end of the year....
...It plans to start manufacturing aircraft later this year on a 450,000-square-foot facility it designed with Toyota....
...The latter is based on the open-source Risc-V architecture....
...Automation an automatic choiceJapan Inc has found a new purpose for automation: business continuity in the uncertain era of Covid-19....
...SoftBank founder predicts WeWork V for Victory Masayoshi Son admitted today he had turned a “blind eye” to governance lapses at WeWork but promised a “sharp V-shaped recovery” for the shared offices provider...
...Honda is in talks with the Thai government to begin manufacturing hybrids in the country. Leading candidates include its Jazz hatchback, HR-V SUV and City sedan....
...Now imagine running the firm during a time of falling industry pricing and rising fleet costs....
...Solar’s price fall was especially steep after a Chinese manufacturing boom spurred global over-supply....
...Mr Bolloré has the thick hide of a man who has found fortune in everything from west African trade to paper manufacturing to advertising....
...Only 0.5 per cent of the US labour force is employed in industries that did not exist in 2000 and, even in Silicon Valley, only 1.8 per cent of workers are employed in new industries....
...The RD-180 powers ULA’s Atlas V rocket, used for the most sensitive US satellite launches. The US looks all but certain to develop its own alternative....
...Conversely, companies such as Looxcie and V.I.O. are offering wearable video cameras designed to capture real-time point-of-view video clips....
...Markets: Asia-Pacific equities are recovering thanks to a US manufacturing report that showed factories are humming in the world’s biggest economy....
...He describes the experience as a fast-track management course, including the tricky issue of family relations....
...Also they are still manufacturing CDs, which made up more than half of global sales last year....
...But it lacks some advantages of traditional industry....
...The manufacturing sector was the main drag on growth with a 20.5 per cent quarter-on-quarter contraction, largely due to a temporary output decline in the highly volatile pharmaceutical industry....
...The other was Jobs’ own belief, nurtured by his long study of Zen Buddhism, that less was more....
...Most big automakers now are studying “mobility” – a new industry-wide buzzword....
...“More to the point, the banking industry and the household sector both remain heavily leveraged while the soaring budget deficit requires a substantial tax increase in the near future.”...
...With the recent emergence of high-profile cases such as Nokia v iPhone, this could see patent cases in the mobile phone industry for some time to come.”...
...However, Tim Bond, head of global asset allocation at Barclays Capital, argued that recent data releases had continued to build a strong case in favour of a “V-shaped” economic recovery....
...Wearing baggy jeans, a white shirt, and a black V-neck sweater – clothes that don’t call attention to themselves, which is his normal uniform – he is dismissive of the past....
...Along the way it lost its distinctive V-tail and picked up a conventional tail. But it is still fast....
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