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It is becoming harder to take off a sick day

If you have a high temperature or are recovering from heart surgery, it is difficult to use machine tools. And if you are having a nervous breakdown, machine tools are best avoided....

Deutsche Bahn is hit by suspected sabotage

Weeks after explosions caused leaks from Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, two undersea gas pipelines linking Russia and Germany, another act of suspected sabotage rocked Europe’s biggest economy. On October...

America curbs Chinese access to advanced computing

Visions of a technologically ascendent China keep American strategists up at night. They see the contours of a surveillance state implementing the will of President Xi Jinping by algorithmic edict at home...

Will Elon Musk-owned Twitter end up as a “deal from hell”?

Unlike tolstoy’s description of families, mergers and acquisitions that end happily do so for a variety of reasons. It’s the unhappy ones that are alike. This is particularly true of m&a deals...

Have profits peaked at American businesses?

Fedex nearly failed to get its wheels off the ground. Months after it first began delivering packages overnight in 1973, the first oil shock buffeted the global economy and the young logistics...

The magic formula of management

This is the age of the data scientist. Employers of all kinds prize people with the skills to capture and analyse enormous amounts of information, to spot patterns in the data and...

Fashion gets a modern makeover

Paris fashion week always makes heads turn. Two events that took place during this year’s extravaganza, which concluded on October 4th, made it dizzying. On September 29th a crocodile-skin Hermès handbag became...

RWE, Germany’s biggest power company, is going green

It has been one of Europe’s dirtiest companies for more than a century; now rwe is aiming to be among the cleanest. Germany’s largest power generator has recently taken two big steps...

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