Category: Business
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The Florida Lounge 2nd Edition
The Florida Lounge is going back to Rio de Janeiro from November 24th to December 30th of 2017.
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VR, IoT and Blockchain among other topics at KosICT 2017
[dropcap]K[/dropcap]osICT 2017, one of the biggest IT conferences of the Balkans, has revealed more details about its program which this year covers, Virtual Reality, Internet of Things and Blockchain, among others. Business owners, C-level staff of companies, and tech professionals from the Western Balkans are invited to join KosICT 2017, in Pristina (Kosovo). Just like last…
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China’s effort to fill empty houses has created a wild cycle of debt
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]n attempt by the Chinese government to fill empty apartments is pushing indebted cities farther into debt.(Credit: Getty Images) Over the past three years, more than 200 Chinese cities have been buying surplus apartments from developers and moving in families who live in neighboring villages or on condemned city blocks, a program it plans to…
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Stuart Gulliver’s Legacy at HSBC: Probe Settlements, Global Overhaul
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]tuart Gulliver, the CEO of HSBC Holdings Plc since 2011, will make way in February for successor John Flint, the London-based bank said on Thursday. He leaves after steering the lender through a wave of misconduct scandals and a strategic overhaul that sought to toughen controls and shrink the bank’s perimeter. With the backing of…
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International Monetary Fund Sounds Caution on U.S. Tax Reform: Don’t Raise the Deficit
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he International Monetary Fund is giving the Trump administration some unsolicited — and possibly unwelcome — advice on the Republican tax plan: don’t make your fiscal situation even worse.(Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) “Given where the U.S. is, in terms of its overall debt level and the off-the-balance-sheet obligations going out into the future as the population…
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IKEA, Lego and Volvo Just Identified 4 Radical Ways to Hack Management
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]KEA, Lego and Volvo Just Identified 4 Ways to Hack Management. We’ve heard a lot about the business practices of the tried and true American innovators like Apple, Google, and Facebook.(CREDIT: Getty Images) But there’s also a lot of innovation happening outside of Silicon Valley, let alone the US. And we can learn from it…
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Florida’s risky real-estate game is protected by a billion-dollar insurance industry — but that could soon change
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]fter dodging the worst of Hurricane Irma, Florida’s coastal real estate boom shows no signs of slowing. In Miami and nearby waterfront cities, a survey of local records show that more than 90 luxury high-rise apartment blocks are under construction or have been completed since 2015, increasingly financed by overseas investors looking for “safe” opportunities…