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'Anora’ wins best picture Oscar in year of indie triumphs
Published on 03/03/2025
» Anora, a drama about a sex worker who marries the son of a Russian oligarch, took home the best picture prize at the Academy Awards on Sunday.
Meta launches Twitter rival Threads -- but not in Europe
AFP, Published on 06/07/2023
» WASHINGTON - Facebook behemoth Meta officially will launch Threads, its text-based rival to Twitter, on Wednesday -- but its release in Europe has been delayed over regulatory concerns.
E-service tax brings in B6bn
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 20/08/2022
» The Revenue Department has collected almost 6 billion baht of e-service tax from foreign operators during the first 10 months of fiscal 2022, surpassing the target by 951 million baht.
Averting statistical tragedies with better data
Oped, Published on 27/11/2021
» In a July 2020 article for Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Tristan Reed and I showed that, contrary to expectations, Covid-19 deaths per capita were much lower in poorer countries than in richer ones. Readers immediately countered that this finding must be due to mismeasurement or a lack of data for these countries. Our result has since withstood scrutiny and the test of time, but the initial response was revealing: statistics originating in developing countries tend to be met with suspicion (and often are dismissed outright).
Web scraping a new tool in revenue hunt
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 03/01/2019
» The Revenue Department plans to launch a trial run of web scraping, a technique used for extracting data from websites, in order to prevent tax avoidance by pure-online vendors.
Vanished China star Fan last in 'social responsibility' ranking
AFP, Published on 11/09/2018
» BEIJING: China's highest-paid movie star Fan Bingbing, who has not been seen in public since July, was placed last in an academic report ranking A-list celebrities on their social responsibility.
The war against financial malware
Business, Published on 14/02/2018
» Financial threats are still profitable for cybercriminals and remain an enduring part of the threat landscape, according to Symantec, the US-based cybersecurity software and services provider. While ransomware tends to make more headlines, a more significant threat is posed by the likes of financial trojans that attack online banking, attacks against ATMs and fraudulent interbank transactions.
Acquiring a digital company? Time to learn new M&A skills
Business, Published on 28/09/2017
» Even for experienced deal makers, a first digital acquisition is an education. Companies acquire digital properties to accelerate their overall strategy, as Publicis Groupe did when it acquired Sapient for US$3.7 billion in 2014 to help it make the leap from a traditional advertising company to a digital one.
Scraping the barrel
Life, Graham K. Rogers, Published on 17/06/2015
» Last week Apple held its Developer Conference (WWDC) for 2015, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. I watched the event live via the feed on Apple TV taking notes and again the next day (but more slowly) when I added some important points I had missed. Many commentators were disappointed because there was no hardware: no iPhones or new Apple TV that had been rumoured.
Resistance to change is futile, but persists
Database, James Hein, Published on 17/11/2010
» Have you ever noticed how governments, MPs, public servants and large, old organisations are very slow to adopt new technologies and embrace change?