International Rights Advocates (IRA), a human rights group in class action lawsuit has claimed Apple, Google, Microsoft, Dell, and Tesla have all “aided and abetted” a supply chain for cobalt metal critical for smartphones and electric vehicles that forces children to work in dangerous conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “Apple, Alphabet, Dell, Microsoft,…
The original Singapore Sling was invented at the Raffles Hotel Singapore over 104 years ago by Hainanese bartender Ngiam Tong Boom, when the etiquette dictated that Ladies could not consume alcohol in public. Cad’s Alley as first lovated at the main hotel entrance where tables were strategically placed next to one another, so that male…
Richard Davies in his latest book “Extreme Economies” gives us a global tour of disasters and recovery and studies the irrepressible markets inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary where there’s the mackerel economy –tinned mackerel being light, standardized and durable, and makes a good currency and the dot economy. In the outside world,…
Chinese tech companies are at an advanced stage of shaping facial recognition and surveillance standards at the UN, as they aspire to dominate markets in the developing world for their designs. China Telecom, ZTE, Dahua are among companies proposing global standards in the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for facial recognition, video monitoring, city and…
Ted Baker. Admitted today that it had overstated the value of the stock on its book by £20 million to £25 million, but stressed any adjustment to inventory value will have no cash impact and will relate to previous years. Their shares plunged 10 per cent before recovering , down 8p at 390p. The company…
Hanfzhou, China’s tech city, where Club Factory, five-year-old business with 400 engineers and operators have built India’s fastest growing ecommerce start-up, a fashion and lifestyle market place that is gaining market share by undercutting domestic rivals on price. Club Factory a platform that began life in China in 2015, as a data analytics and drop…
A regulation announced in September 2019, was due to come into effect on Sunday when all people in China are required to have their faces scanned when registering new mobile phone services, as the authorities seek to verify the identities of hundreds of millions of internet users. China has for years been trying to…
Acknowledging the contributions of gardens to our mental and physical wellbeing and often the economic benefits are often overlooked, economic historian Roderick Floud steers to put it right in his latest book “An Economic History of the English Garden”. This is the first book to question how much gardens and gardening have cost, and…
Silver Lake, a US private equity firm is buying more than 10 per cent of the Manchester City Football group whose valuation of $4.8bn after the Gulf owners of Manchester City agreed to sell $ 500m stake. Abu Dhabi-controlled business that owns the English champions and affiliated teams in the US and China puts the…
Elon Musk blamed the embarrassing launch incident on the order in which a demonstration had taken place. The Cybertruck was first struck with a sledgehammer in what appeared to be a successful demonstration of its armor body’s strength which developed an unseen crack which had subsequently led to the windows smashing when they had been…