US may be a gamble too far for Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Financial Times
Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder of the telecommunications group SoftBank and perhaps Japan's most successful example of an American-style entrepreneur, has made a career out of beating the odds. He casts himself in the mould of his hero, Soichiro ...
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Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder of the telecommunications group SoftBank and perhaps Japan's most successful example of an American-style entrepreneur, has made a career out of beating the odds. He casts himself in the mould of his hero, Soichiro ...
What £20bn of tax cuts tell us about Ukip's priorities – and the Conservative ... Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
“We want to take low earners out of income tax altogether. No tax on the minimum wage,” says Aker,. Observation: Expensive. Very expensive. According to the IFS Green Budget, applying that policy this year would mean pushing up the starting point of ...
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“We want to take low earners out of income tax altogether. No tax on the minimum wage,” says Aker,. Observation: Expensive. Very expensive. According to the IFS Green Budget, applying that policy this year would mean pushing up the starting point of ...
Facial-recognition systems are getting better The Economist
WITH some pride, the FBI trumpeted the news last month that thanks to the agency's facial-recognition system Neil Stammer, wanted for sexual assault and kidnapping, had been apprehended in Nepal after being on the run for 14 years. The truth was slightly ...
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WITH some pride, the FBI trumpeted the news last month that thanks to the agency's facial-recognition system Neil Stammer, wanted for sexual assault and kidnapping, had been apprehended in Nepal after being on the run for 14 years. The truth was slightly ...
'Terrorist' is too big a word for the deranged killers of Isis Financial Times
He spoke with a British accent. That made the graphic video footage of an Isis militant slaying the American journalist James Foley all the more chilling. A warning between the lines: the bloodshed in Syria and Iraq will soon come home. But the killer's spiel ...
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He spoke with a British accent. That made the graphic video footage of an Isis militant slaying the American journalist James Foley all the more chilling. A warning between the lines: the bloodshed in Syria and Iraq will soon come home. But the killer's spiel ...
Nobel guru fears it may be nigh impossible to stop deflation Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
A quick word from Lindau, where half the world's Nobel economists are gathered on a beautiful island with cobbled streets on Lake Constance, looking out across the Alps. It is a Wittlesbach jewel. Christopher Sims – a monetary expert, who now thinks money ...
A quick word from Lindau, where half the world's Nobel economists are gathered on a beautiful island with cobbled streets on Lake Constance, looking out across the Alps. It is a Wittlesbach jewel. Christopher Sims – a monetary expert, who now thinks money ...
Disease transmission Seals of doom The Economist
WHEN a few intrepid humans crossed the Bering land bridge from the Old World to the New, to populate the Americas 12,000 years ago, they left many things behind. Among them were several diseases—including smallpox, malaria and tuberculosis—that ...
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WHEN a few intrepid humans crossed the Bering land bridge from the Old World to the New, to populate the Americas 12,000 years ago, they left many things behind. Among them were several diseases—including smallpox, malaria and tuberculosis—that ...
Dramas to match scenery at Jackson Hole Financial Times
The annual August summits of the world's top central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, have a dramatic mountain backdrop, but the conference titles are not exactly works of blockbuster film writers. “Re-evaluating labour market dynamics”, the topic of this ...
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The annual August summits of the world's top central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, have a dramatic mountain backdrop, but the conference titles are not exactly works of blockbuster film writers. “Re-evaluating labour market dynamics”, the topic of this ...
Google's fact-checking bots build vast knowledge bank New Scientist
GOOGLE is building the largest store of knowledge in human history – and it's doing so without any human help. Instead, Knowledge Vault autonomously gathers and merges information from across the web into a single base of facts about the world, and the ...
GOOGLE is building the largest store of knowledge in human history – and it's doing so without any human help. Instead, Knowledge Vault autonomously gathers and merges information from across the web into a single base of facts about the world, and the ...
Disease transmission The Economist
WHEN a few intrepid humans crossed the Bering land bridge from the Old World to the New, to populate the Americas 12,000 years ago, they left many things behind. Among them were several diseases—including smallpox, malaria and tuberculosis—that ...
WHEN a few intrepid humans crossed the Bering land bridge from the Old World to the New, to populate the Americas 12,000 years ago, they left many things behind. Among them were several diseases—including smallpox, malaria and tuberculosis—that ...
Samsung-made Nook tablet announced by Barnes & Noble BBC News
Barnes & Noble has unveiled a customised version of an existing Samsung tablet as a replacement for the Nook HD+, which it manufactured itself. The US book chain is marketing the device as the "first-ever full-featured Android tablet optimised for reading", ...
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Barnes & Noble has unveiled a customised version of an existing Samsung tablet as a replacement for the Nook HD+, which it manufactured itself. The US book chain is marketing the device as the "first-ever full-featured Android tablet optimised for reading", ...
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