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The R&D centre for the world’s largest telecoms supplier will span one square kilometre—roughly 130 football pitches—and following its completion, will mark Huawei’s 36th joint innovation centre and fourteenth R&D institute worldwide. Chinese tech giant Huawei will invest roughly 10bn…
This story is part of a group of stories called On a Christmas morning in the early 2000s, my mom found herself slaving over a freshly unwrapped copy of Lego Mindstorms: Star Wars. The commercials aired on Cartoon Network for…
“How do successful companies create products people can’t put down?” That’s the opening line of the description for Nir Eyal’s best-selling 2014 book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. Hooked became a staple in Silicon Valley circles — it was…
This story is part of a group of stories called Finding the best ways to do good. Made possible by The Rockefeller Foundation. In his remarks to the nation in the wake of the shootings in Dayton and El Paso,…
Earlier Beijing reportedly warned New Delhi that if it blocks Huawei Technologies from doing business in the country, Indian firms operating in China could face repercussions. An influential US Congressman Jim Banks has accused China of “blackmailing” India into using…
In a statement on 6 August, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) slammed Washington’s decision to designate China as a “currency manipulator”. China’s yuan has continued its nosedive, weakening to 7.0488 to the US dollar on Wednesday, about 0.4 per…
