Just as president-elect Donald Trump was being voted in on a platform of higher tariffs for China, US businessmen were striking deals thousands of miles away at Shanghai’s biggest trade fair. Dynamite, a family-run pet food business with 12 stores in Idaho, signed $1mn in orders from Chinese company Pawberry — part of a stream […]
On Monday, Microsoft came out guns blazing, posting a blog accusing Google of “dishonestly” funding groups conducting allegedly biased studies to discredit Microsoft and mislead antitrust enforcers and the public. In the blog, Microsoft lawyer Rima Alaily alleged that an astroturf group called the Open Cloud Coalition will launch this week and will appear to […]
EPA Japanese voters are today heading to the polls in a snap election, following a tumultuous few years for the ruling party which saw a “cascade” of scandals, widespread voter apathy and record-low approval ratings. The election was announced by Shigeru Ishiba three days after he was selected as the leader of the ruling Liberal […]
If there were an AI prompt behind Indonesian action maestro Timo Tjahjanto’s latest Netflix movie The Shadow Straysit would probably go something like this: “Give me John Wick but make it Indonesian women with uzis and samurai swords — and more brutal.” Not that anything feels remotely artificial about the viscerally kinetic setpieces that explode […]
A report shows how Russia has largely evaded sanctions aimed at limiting its revenue from oil sales.
