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Alibaba

Deal or No Deal: Tech Companies Are Shifting from China – Market Realist

Tech companies On July 3, Nikkei reported that Global consumer electronics makers HP, Dell, Microsoft and Amazon are all looking to shift substantial production capacity out of China, joining a growing exodus that threatens to undermine the countrys position…

bubmagJuly 3, 2019

Xi Jinping

US Government Staff Told To Treat Huawei as Blacklisted

... of the doubt before, but lately I am increasingly beginning to suspect that this whole thing is actually all about negotiating a trade deal with China, and no sooner will the ink be dry on a trade deal than somehow, quite mysteriously, Huawei will cease t…

bubmagJuly 3, 2019

Belt and Road

Cambodia Throws a Wrench into Trump’s Trade War

Under the leadership of Prime Minister Hun Sen, Cambodia has become a haven for companies eager to circumvent rules that threaten their bottom line. This does not bode well for Americas ability to enforce its trade tariffs against China or for Cambodias futur…

bubmagJuly 3, 2019

Water Scarcity

War, empire, and racism in the Anthropocene

The Anthropocene. A proposed new geological epoch which designates a shift to a planetary age dominated by human impacts across the geological processes of the Earth. Geologists dispute the duration, precision, relevance and even accuracy of the concept. But …

bubmagJuly 3, 2019

Refugees Welcome

Black babies are more likely to be stillborn. That is institutional racism

Its hard to communicate the utter pervasiveness of racism to those who do not, or will not, understand it. Too often its assumed that the effects of this ugly phenomenon are akin to being mildly insulted: it hurts, but its easier to try not to dwell on it. Th…

bubmagJuly 3, 2019

NASDAQ

Symantec, Tesla Stock Boost S&P 500 To New High; Dow Jones Lags – Investor’s Business Daily

Stocks climbed into Wednesday's shortened pre-holiday session with the S&P 500 narrowly snatching a new record high, as the Dow Jones industrials and Nasdaq Composite eked toward records of their own. XThe Nasdaq and S&P 500 advanced 0.3%, while the …

bubmagJuly 3, 2019

CCTV

Highgate hit-and-run: Driver jailed for hitting cyclist

Media captionThe video came from a local restaurant's CCTV system A man who crashed head-on into a cyclist while driving on the wrong side of the road and then fled the scene has been jailed for 20 months. Sean Fagan, 29, left Josh Dey with a bleed on the b…

bubmagJuly 3, 2019

Trade War

HP, Dell, Microsoft, and Amazon look to move some hardware production out of China

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge HP, Dell, Microsoft, and Amazon are the latest companies to consider moving some of their hardware production out of China in light of the ongoing trade war with the US. Nikkei reports that HP and Dell are both looking to m…

bubmagJuly 3, 2019

Super Heroes

Spoilers! How those ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ end-credit scenes set up Marvel’s future

The new "Spider-Man: Far From Home" trailer catches up with Peter Parker (Tom Holland) in a world needing new heroes after "Avengers: Endgame." USA TODAY Spoiler alert! The following details the ending of "Spider-Man: Far From Home," so beware if you haven…

bubmagJuly 3, 2019

Hrant Dink

A year after Armenia’s 250,000-person revolution, Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan explains what comes next for the country

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: This is Nikol Pashinyan. In April 2018, he led a 250,000-person revolution in Armenia. The peaceful demonstrations were in reponse to the decadelong rule of Serzh Sargsyan. After serving as president…

bubmagJuly 3, 2019

Deal or No Deal: Tech Companies Are Shifting from China – Market Realist

US Government Staff Told To Treat Huawei as Blacklisted

Cambodia Throws a Wrench into Trump’s Trade War

War, empire, and racism in the Anthropocene

Black babies are more likely to be stillborn. That is institutional racism

Symantec, Tesla Stock Boost S&P 500 To New High; Dow Jones Lags – Investor’s Business Daily

Highgate hit-and-run: Driver jailed for hitting cyclist

HP, Dell, Microsoft, and Amazon look to move some hardware production out of China

Spoilers! How those ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ end-credit scenes set up Marvel’s future

A year after Armenia’s 250,000-person revolution, Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan explains what comes next for the country

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