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Internet control freaks are becoming a costly drag
News, Justin Fox, Published on 13/07/2016
» Inke is a Chinese startup that enables users to stream live video. It's doing pretty well -- in April, mobile analytics firm App Annie said it was the seventh highest-grossing smartphone app on the planet. The company does face some costs that internet companies elsewhere in the world don't, though. This is from a Bloomberg article last week on China's live-streaming boom, and the government's concerns that it could get out of hand:
Nationalism's threat to a fragile world order
News, Published on 29/05/2016
» By all accounts, the much-anticipated Seventh Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea was a non-event. If the first such meeting of North Korea's highest organ in more than 35 years had any impact at all, it was to dash any hopes that the country's irascible leader, Kim Jong-un, would turn his attention to economic reform.
#LookThep
Guru, Napamon Roongwitoo, Published on 06/05/2016
» I was beyond relieved when those creepy lookthep dolls stopped making headlines. It was just too weird seeing people spending obscene money pampering a lifeless doll.
Warren Buffett tumbles into 'The Confidence Trap'
News, Published on 04/05/2016
» Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, is a confident man. Having built one of the greatest businesses in history, and having become one of the world's richest men in the process, he sees great prosperity in the rear-view mirror, and more of the same ahead.
Donald Trump deals the woman card
News, Published on 29/04/2016
» And it came to pass, barely seconds after he became the near-inevitable Republican presidential nominee, that Donald Trump began a gender war.
Defining 'greatness' at core of 2016 presidential race
News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 23/03/2016
» In two months on the road covering the 2016 presidential primaries, I've seen the US going through something of an identity crisis, after decades of dominance. The candidates are talking about what the voters are thinking about: What does it mean for the US to be great?
Cloud of violence looms over Republican presidential race
News, USA TODAY, Published on 15/03/2016
» A Republican presidential race that has been dominated by economic anxiety and outsider politics heads toward important primaries today under the cloud of a troubling new issue: the prospect of violence.
Politics is proving to be too destabilising
News, Published on 07/03/2016
» Twenty-four years ago, in the midst of an ugly US presidential campaign, Bill Clinton's campaign manager neatly summed up his candidate's message: "It's the economy, stupid." Today, as investors struggle to understand what is driving extreme volatility in the financial markets, there is an equally pithy explanation: It's the stupid politics.
Underdogs survive 'Super Tuesday'
News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 03/03/2016
» East High School in Denver, Colorado, home to 14 precincts for the Democratic caucuses, was a mob scene on Tuesday night. It was hard to judge the turnout, but one of the organisers told me there were about 5,000 people there, and I believed him: Rooms designated for caucusing were overflowing, and several precincts gave up and held their votes in the stairwell or outside the building.
Diplomacy at the summit
News, Editorial, Published on 17/02/2016
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha left on Sunday and arrives back home tomorrow from California. He is attending the first formal meeting between US and Asean leaders ever held outside the region. President Barack Obama hosted the meeting so he could get across his thoughts on China's actions in the South China Sea and also on the fight against rising terrorist threats in the region. It was such a good idea it should go on the diplomatic calendar.