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Giappone
Micro M&A advisers riding population trends to success
Boutique advisers specializing in micro mergers and acquisitions for mostly family-run firms are enjoying a boom as the aging, shrinking population puts the squeeze on Japan’s small business landscape. There are no industrywide figures for deals between ¥500 million and ¥1 billion, but boutique advisers say they are benefiting as ...
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Giappone
Toshiba’s nuclear reactor mess winds back to a Louisiana swamp
If you want to understand why Toshiba is about to report a multi-billion dollar writedown on its nuclear reactor business, the story begins and ends with a onetime pipe manufacturer with roots in the swamp country of Louisiana. The post Toshiba’s nuclear reactor mess winds back to a Louisiana swamp appeared ...
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Giappone
Japan’s economy grew 1.0% in 2016 despite slower last quarter
The economy expanded at a slightly slower than expected 1.0 percent annual pace in 2016, helped by an uptick in exports. The post Japan’s economy grew 1.0% in 2016 despite slower last quarter appeared first on The Japan Times.
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Giappone
New technology has display designers thinking outside the rectangle
From smartphones, computers, TV sets to car navigation systems, almost every device’s display shape is rectangular. But this stereotype is likely to change soon, as display-makers work to come up with unique designs, such as circular, curved, ultrathin and flexible. Such displays, they say, are expected to be used more ...
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USA Giappone
Aided by apps, audiobooks market grows in Japan
The use of audiobooks is increasing steadily in Japan, providing a boon to the publishing industry, which is facing declining sales of ordinary books. Audiobooks already account for 10 percent of book sales in the United States and Europe. In the U.S., audiobooks, which started as cassette tapes to listen ...
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Giappone
Bad luck seems to jinx 1790s Putney General Store
The Putney General Store, established in the 1790s, is having a devil of a time staying open in its fourth century. Just don’t call it cursed. Efforts to keep it thriving have been challenged over the past nine years by two fires, one of which was arson; a lapsed lease ...
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Giappone
Ohio foes hope endangered bat helps thwart $2 billion natural gas pipeline project
Opponents of a high-pressure natural gas pipeline expected to be built across the northern half of Ohio are clinging to the wings of a furry flier, the northern long-eared bat, in their efforts to at least delay the $2 billion project. The existence of the threatened species remains one of ...
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Giappone
Weaponized buying as shoppers weigh boycott calls over firms’ political stands
Stormy Patterson makes a distinction between opinion and action as she surveys each new call to boycott Company A or support Brand B. It’s “silly” to penalize Under Armour over its CEO’s praise of President Donald Trump, she says. Far more important is how a company behaves toward its customers ...
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USA Nigeria
Nigeria's spiralling herdsmen-farmer violence fuels fears of humanitarian crisis
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation Country: NigeriaSome 27,000 people in Kaduna have been forced to flee their homes due to violence between Muslim herdsmen and largely Christian farmers which has killed at least 800 people.27,000 people in Kaduna have been forced to flee their homes due to violence between Muslim herdsmen and ...
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Portogallo
Talent Portugal: Procura talentos para trabalhar em território nacional
A Talent Portugal, que reúne vários especialistas no próximo dia 15 de fevereiro na Porto Business School, vai apresentar e partilhar as melhores práticas do Employer Branding.