R.E.S.-ilience in Value Creation 《竹经：经商经世离不得立根创新》
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The Raspberry Pi computer – how a bright British idea took flight
Cambridge scientists thought their £30 computer might find 1,000 customers. Two years on, they have shipped 2.5m units
The Guardian, Sunday 9 March 2014 22.31 GMT
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Sugru, the new wonder material: ‘I made a thing like wood, but it bounced’
How odd experiment led to creation of product that has been compared with Blu-Tack and Sellotape in terms of significance
The Guardian, Sunday 16 March 2014 18.40 GMT
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Google, Facebook, Amazon: algorithms will soon rule our lives so we’d better understand how they work
By Jamie Bartlett Tech business Last updated: March 23rd, 2014
One of the most interesting announcements in last week’s Budget – well, for me at least, as someone who has no savings and doesn’t play bingo or drink much – was the new Alan Turing Institute: £220 million of government support will be invested into “big data and algorithm” research. Read more of this post
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Updated: Monday March 24, 2014 MYT 7:29:41 AM
Emerging Europe the new hunting ground for bad loan investors
WARSAW: Central and eastern European countries are turning up the pressure on banks to clean up their balance sheets, creating new opportunities for bad loan investors that are seeing returns dwindle in recovering eurozone economies. Read more of this post
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Myanmar’s Log Export Ban to Hurt Businessmen But Help Forests
By Jared Ferrie on 03:54 pm Mar 23, 2014
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Russia’s Leading Role in the Indonesian Mining Revolution
By Randy Fabi & Fergus Jensen on 10:45 am Mar 24, 2014
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PUBLISHED MARCH 24, 2014
MAS may review sales of yuan investments
JAMIE LEE
[SINGAPORE] Retail deposits make up a small portion of all yuan-denominated deposits here, said the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), while pointing out that it may review financial institutions’ sales practices for investment products. Read more of this post
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Updated: Monday March 24, 2014 MYT 8:08:52 AM
Investor treaties in trouble
BY MARTIN KHOR
Several countries are reviewing these agreements, prompted by the number of cases brought by foreign companies who claim that changes in government policies affect their future profits.
THE tide is turning against investment treaties that allow foreign investors to take up cases against host governments and claim compensation of up to billions of dollars. Read more of this post
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23 March 2014| last updated at 11:36PM
BMW moves S’pore parts centre to Johor
JOHOR BARU: Carmaker BMW AG will relocate its regional parts distribution centre in Sembawang, Singapore to Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) in Gelang Patah, Johor in August.
The centre keeps an inventory of parts for BMW sedans, sports activity vehicles and Mini series. Read more of this post
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March 24, 2014 3:55 am
Indian start-ups tap into mobile payments technology
By Sarah Mishkin in San Francisco and James Crabtree in Mumbai
Good luck finding a local store or delivery person in India who accepts anything but cash. Even in a nation of 1.2bn, fewer than 1m retailers are set up to take a credit card. Read more of this post
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March 23, 2014 5:36 pm
Nasdaq rethinks FinQloud partnership with Amazon
By Arash Massoudi in New York and Barney Jopson in Washington
Nasdaq is re-evaluating a venture based on Amazon’s cloud computing services after a landmark partnership to offer back-office data storage to banks and brokers failed to gain traction with customers. Read more of this post
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March 24, 2014 12:01 am
Mining companies must step up fight against TB
By Rose Jacobs
Seven years ago, the picture of tuberculosis infection among workers at Anglo American’s coal mines was relatively grim: the incidence rate stood at about 900 people per 100,000 – above the rate for South Africa as a whole at the time, despite the countrywide rate having tripled in the previous decade. Read more of this post
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March 24, 2014 12:01 am
TB, disease of the poor, now threatens the rich
By Andrew Ward
Its victims have included George Orwell, Frederic Chopin, Franz Kafka, Emily Brontë and Eleanor Roosevelt.
If tuberculosis were still killing such cultural giants, it would not be hard to attract attention and funding to the campaign for its eradication. Read more of this post
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March 24, 2014 12:01 am
TB reappears in developed world
By Rose Jacobs
Cruising the streets of London, a white van emblazoned with the National Health Service’s logo is seeking out a specific subsection of the capital’s population: the people most vulnerable to tuberculosis.
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March 21, 2014 7:21 pm
Checkmate for cheap unconventional gas
By John Dizard
Shale reserves are not a miracle; they are a high-cost source of fuel, writes John Dizard
If you listen to the whisperings in the chancelleries of the great powers of Europe, or the musings of editorialists, US shale gas has become a key strategic asset in the chess game of global power. The US can move its gas castle to block the Russian knight from putting Europe in check . . . or whatever. Read more of this post
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March 24, 2014 12:01 am
Big pharma balks at investment in TB
By Andrew Ward
For an industry so often on the back foot over ethical issues, the approval last year of the first tuberculosis drug in 40 years was a chance to trumpet Big Pharma’s positive role in tackling global health problems. Read more of this post
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