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Apple restricts hiring new employees

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Apple will hire less employees due to low sales of the iPhone, reports Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the situation. This news was reported to company employees by Tim Cook, the company’s CEO, at a closed meeting. When asked whether Apple...

US prosecutors suspect Huawei in stealing trade secrets

Kārlis Dambrāns
The US federal prosecutor's office is conducting a criminal investigation against the Chinese Huawei Technologies Co. on suspicion of stealing commercial secrets from US business partners, including mobile operator T-Mobile US Inc., writes The Wall...

Pentagon and Microsoft sign $ 1.76 billion worth contract

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In January 2019, Microsoft signed another contract with the US Department of Defense. This time it is about providing the Pentagon with corporate services for five years (until January 10, 2024) in the amount of $ 1.76 billion. Microsoft has entered...

Will Bezos' divorce affect Amazon?

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Divorce of the richest couple in the world is not an event that investors can miss. Can the already highly acclaimed split ultimately affect shares of the e-commerce giant, which is currently the most valuable publicly traded company in the world?...
Markets & Industries

IMF proposes implementing US tax reform in the entire world

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With all controversies, IMF experts believe that full implementation of principles of the 2017 US tax reform allows the country that implements it to significantly outperform its competitors. Economists of the fund are very cautious but still...

Can private investors make money on Industry 4.0?

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Industry 4.0, or, in other words, the fourth industrial revolution, implies not only the further development of technology, but also the digitalization of all spheres of life. This is a fundamentally new approach to production and consumption, a new...

OPEC is going to bring clarity to the market

Tony Hisgett
OPEC will bring clarity to the market. Already this week, data on levels of reduction will be announced, and traders will receive clear guidelines. This week, the OPEC Secretariat plans to publish data on the levels of production cuts by OPEC +...

Londoners can’t afford housing in the city anymore

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According to Hamptons International, a company specializing in property management services, Londoners spent £ 30 billion on housing when moving outside the capital this year, and this was the highest figure since 2007. Too high real estate prices...
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Oberthur Fiduciaire growing in Europe

Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of the main secure printers in charge of printing banknotes for central banks, is consolidating its position in Europe, in a steady streak of growth. Lately, two strategic moves have shaped its ambitions toward ever-closer control of quality management and security processes.In February of 2017, the Sequana group announced its intention to sell its Banknote paper compan...
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Catalans decide to punish banks leaving Catalonia

As tension in Spain is intensifying, the Catalan separatists are finding new opportunities for the struggle for independence that could strike Madrid.Civil society organizations in Catalonia are requiring a massive withdrawal of money from bank ATMs to put pressure on the Spanish government. At the same time, the organizers have no clear idea how much money it takes and what to do with the...
World & Politics

Europe’s largest economy is slowing down

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The political environment is putting pressure on German exports, the main engine of the German economy, and threaten it with a technical recession. After a decade of economic boom, thunderclouds appeared in the political sky. They are beginning to...

Alliance of large global companies takes on fight against plastic pollution

Kevin Krejci
On Wednesday, large international companies announced creation of a new organization whose task will be to develop and implement solutions to combat environmental pollution, in particular water resources, plastic waste. The Alliance to End Plastic...

Greek politicians are going to test new stability

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Experts believe that early elections can be good news for investors. Greece’s political class is going to test investor confidence in the fact that the years of turbulence have gone. The political future of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is under...

Angela Merkel returns to international area

Sven Mandel
At the end of her political career, Angela Merkel decided to protect the global order and give the final battle to the nationalists and populists. After a long break related to solving internal problems, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is going back...
Management & Strategy

Forming cooperation between sales and marketing: How and why?

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A war between the sales and marketing departments may be the reason why why your business does not get enough profit. If you have no desire to scale business and you are completely satisfied with financial success, then let these departments exist...

Four mistakes of leaders

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A company’s head can become a first-class leader if he can do four things: inspire, influence, combine and lead. Inspire people, influence attitudes, join forces and lead a team to a goal. A leader always creates something completely new, sets the...

Five principles to resolve internal conflicts in company

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No matter how friendly your company is, there can be occasional disputes and disagreements. Hushing up or avoiding them is an unproductive way: it will not allow the company to develop and find new ways to solve problems. On the other hand, it is...

Carlos Ghosn could use Nissan’s funds to buy real estate

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The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg told about several properties that belong to the head of Renault, Carlos Ghosn, and are located on different continents. They could be the reason of investigation in Japan. According to the American newspapers,...