A self-professed introvert, which is fitting for a company that sells itself on textual communication, he values efficiency and candour. After Yahoo bought Flickr, he worked there for a few years. Everything was horrible, ugly, slow, difficult to use
Alibaba 阿里巴巴 Under scrutiny 一审再审 American regulators are investigating China's e-commerce giant 美国监管机构正调查中国电商巨头 WE HAVE from time to time been subject to PRC and foreign government inquiries and investiga
Leaders Business in Africa Making Africa work 社论精粹 非洲商业 让非洲发展起来 The continent's future depends on people, not commodities 非洲的前途依赖人,而非大宗商品 IS ANYONE here actually hoping to make any money, or
Small wonder Africa grew poorer between 1980 and 2000. 难怪在1980至2000年期间,非洲变得更穷了。 Now inflation has largely been tamed, most central banks are islands of excellence and many ministers boast of cutting red tape. 现在,通
HSBC: London v Hong Kong 汇丰银行:伦敦VS香港 East is Eden 东方伊甸园 Banking's longest, and most successful, identity crisis 银行业历时最久,最为著名的身份认知危机 HSBCone of the two most pivotal banks in the global
Car-hailing apps in China 中国的打车软件 More than mobility 不只是客运 The ambitions of Didi Kuaidi, Uber's Chinese rival, go far beyond taxi-hailing 作为Uber的竞争对手,滴滴快的不再只限于召唤出租车。 FOREIGN intern
Kansas and Missouri 肯萨斯和密苏苏里 The new border war 新边境之战 Missouri calls for an economic truce with Kansas 密苏苏里提出与肯萨斯达成经济休战协定 I hear the tax breaks are good in Kansas 听说肯萨斯州有好的
Journalism in America 美国新闻业 Digital resurrection 数字复兴 Some moderately good news in the news industry 新闻业的好消息 IN FEBRUARY Vice, a media firm that caters to youngsters who like their news with a dollop of sass and hip-ho
Justin Trudeau, the prime minister, often underlines that in multicultural Canada, diversity is welcomed. 总理贾斯廷特鲁多经常强调多元文化的加拿大欢迎多元化。 Publicly funded health care sometimes gets a mention. All of this
What would induce a software developer to quit a good job in Silicon Valley and trade California's sunshine for Toronto's wintry skies? 什么可以吸引一名软件开发者放弃硅谷的好工作,用加利福尼亚的阳光换得多伦多的冷冬
The risk the debt mountain poses is the concern most often cited by investors, says Mr Lane. 莱恩表示投资人经常用债务堆积如山的风险引述他们的担忧。 Some of this debt will go to the separately listed mobile unit and may be n
Even so, the Japanese public, bombarded by TV advertisements for the listing, has flocked to buy shares. 即便如此,由于电视上铺天盖地的上市宣传,日本民众纷纷购买该公司股票。 SoftBank benefits both from domestic inves
Mention softbank and most Japanese people, understandably, think of telecomsit is Japan's third-largest wireless carrier. 说起软银,大部分日本人会想到电信行业软银是日本第三大无线营运商。 The company hopes to weaken tha
Business 商业报道 American industry and fracking 美国工业和水力压裂技术 From sunset to new dawn 从日落到新的黎明 Capitalists, not just greens, are now questioning how significant the benefits of shale gas and oil will be for Am
Nigeria 尼日利亚 Why northerners feel done down 为何感觉完了? A terrorist insurgency has deepened a poor region's already grave problems 恐怖叛乱贫困的北方雪上加霜 THE roads are thick with traffic and pavements throng with ha
Drugs policy 毒品政策 Marijuana milestone 大麻合法化的里程碑 Almost half of American states have taken steps to legalise cannabis. The federal government should follow 美国几乎一半的洲都已经步入了大麻合法化的大门。联
Microsoft and the PC industry 微软和个人电脑业 Defenestrated 被抛弃 Steve Ballmer is a casualty of the personal computers rapid decline 史蒂夫鲍尔默是个人电脑迅速衰败的罪魁祸首 Aug 31st 2013 |From the print edition UNTI
Finance and economics 财经商业 China's economy 中国经济 An alternative view 另一视角 China's official figures both understate and overstate inflation 中国官方数据既低估又高估了通货膨胀 IS CHINA'S economy underheating? 中国
Business 商业报道 Women and work 女性和工作 The glass-ceiling index 玻璃天花板指数 The bestand worstplaces to be a working woman 职场女性待遇最好和最差的国家 AS IT is International Women's Day on March 8th, The Economist
Palestine and Western aid 巴勒斯坦和西方外援 Will it be cut off? 这援助会取消不? The Israelis ponder their next move in the wake of Palestinian reconciliation 随着巴勒斯坦人内部的和解,以色列正权衡他们自己的下
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