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The era of open tech is fading as tech giants hone a closed approach – Axios

The big picture: A 50-year arc toward open technology shaped today's industry. Open platforms like the original personal computers sparked its early growth. An open network, the internet, connected our devices and wove our digital world. Open source softwa…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

Europe’s leaders launch fight for EU top jobs in Brussels – BBC News

Image copyrightAFPImage caption EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is one of those whose jobs is up for grabs EU leaders are heading to Brussels to consider candidates for the organisation's most important jobs in the wake of parliamentary electio…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Venezuela

U.S. walks out of U.N. arms control body in Venezuela protest

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Super Komachi

Visitors to be fined £1,000 if they steal stones from Welsh beach, sign warns

Visitors to a popular beach in Wales have been warned that they could face a fine of £1,000 for stealing its stones. The sign, which warns visitors to Amroth beach in Pembrokeshire that they could be liable to prosecution, is believed to be the work of an en…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Europe Markets: Italian stocks send Europe screeching into reverse

Italian banks were hit as continuing anxiety over the countrys euroskeptic partys success in European elections sent sovereign bond yields surging. How did markets perform? The Stoxx 600 SXXP, -0.45% fell 0.3% to 376.1 giving back Mondays gains of 0.2%.…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Alibaba

Alibaba plans bumper $20 billion ln Hong Kong listing to boost investment war chest: sources

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Alibaba is considering raising as much as $20 billion through a listing in Hong Kong, people familiar with the matter told Reuters, lining up a second blockbuster deal following its 2014 record $25 billion float in New York.The deal, the…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Venezuela

US balks as Venezuela heads up UN-backed disarmament body

The U.S. ambassador to the U.N.'s main disarmament body has walked out of its current session in Geneva to protest that Venezuela has taken the chair. Robert Wood insisted "a rogue state" was taking over, shortly after Venezuelan Ambassador Jorge Valero beca…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Venezuela

US balks as Venezuela heads up UN-backed disarmament body

GENEVA (AP) The U.S. ambassador to the U.N.’s main disarmament body has walked out of its current session in Geneva to protest that Venezuela has taken the chair. Robert Wood insisted “a rogue state” was taking over, shortly after Venezuelan Ambassador Jorge…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Christianity

A Western Religion? (RJS)

Doesn’t Christianity crush diversity? Isn’t it another example of Western imperialism? Rebecca McLaughlin, Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion, suggests that we’ve got it backwards. Christianity isn’t a Western relig…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

NASDAQ

3 Marijuana Stocks Set to Uplist to the NYSE or Nasdaq in 2019

The marijuana industry has overcome some impressive hurdles in recent years. In the United States, two-thirds of all Americans now favor legalizing recreational weed, up from a mere 25% a quarter of a century ago. Additionally, after zero states had given the…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

The era of open tech is fading as tech giants hone a closed approach – Axios

Europe’s leaders launch fight for EU top jobs in Brussels – BBC News

U.S. walks out of U.N. arms control body in Venezuela protest

Visitors to be fined £1,000 if they steal stones from Welsh beach, sign warns

Europe Markets: Italian stocks send Europe screeching into reverse

Alibaba plans bumper $20 billion ln Hong Kong listing to boost investment war chest: sources

US balks as Venezuela heads up UN-backed disarmament body

US balks as Venezuela heads up UN-backed disarmament body

A Western Religion? (RJS)

3 Marijuana Stocks Set to Uplist to the NYSE or Nasdaq in 2019

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