Le fossé d’incompréhension se creuse entre l'Inde et Mark Zuckerberg. 'We will be ready, inshallah': inside Qatar's $200bn World Cup. Pitch-side at Doha’s sweltering Abdullah bin Khalifa football stadium, coach Felix Sanchez barks instructions at his Qatar under-23 team.
“Out of here!” He screams as his players run the ball into a channel filled with Palestinian defenders. “Yalla shabab!” He shouts in Arabic. Joël Collado, raconte-nous tes souvenirs de météo. Joël Collado, raconte-nous tes souvenirs de météo. Here’s Why Public Wifi is a Public Health Hazard — Matter. Session 1: Let everyone connect to our fake network The waitress serves us our coffee and hands us the WiFi password.
After Slotboom is connected, he is able to provide all the visitors with an internet connection and to redirect all internet traffic through his little device. The Secret of Airbnb’s Pricing Algorithm. How much should you charge someone to live in your house?
Or how much would you pay to live in someone else’s house? Would you pay more or less for a planned vacation or for a spur-of-the-moment getaway? ‘Stoner sloth’ anti-drug campaign gets reality check as medical experts walk away. A leading drug research centre has distanced itself from the NSW government’s bizarre “stoner sloth” campaign, which attempts to warn teenagers against the dangers of sustained marijuana use by depicting them as disturbingly oversized versions of the South American mammal.
In a pyrrhic victory for the NSW government, the stoner sloth campaign has gone viral but the anti-drug message appears to have lost out to the internet’s dual love of mocking failed ad campaigns, and sloths. The campaign was initially linked to the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre (NCPI), which has responded with a statement saying their involvement was limited to providing an initial basic analysis of other anti-cannabis campaigns, and some general recommendations. In an embarrassing oversight, the stoner sloth campaign shares a name with an online cannabis store. Shane Oliver: avoid the crowd when it comes to investments. In an AFR summer series, top investment experts give us their thoughts on what's ahead for investors and tell us how they unwind when they're not caught up in market events.
Shane Oliver, head of investment strategy at AMP, outlines the challenges over the next few months. What macroeconomic events should investors be on the lookout for over the next six months? There are three big factors to keep an eye on. The first is how aggressive the Fed gets in raising interest rates – our assessment is that global and US growth and underlying inflation will remain constrained, and that this will limit the Fed to only very gradually raising rates. The second is whether Chinese economic growth is able to stabilise around 6.5 to 7 per cent – it probably will, but only with more monetary easing and fiscal stimulus. The New U.S. Digital Divide: Between the Haves and the Have-Mores. L’effondrement de l’Arabie saoudite est inéluctable. Hervé Le Bras «Le vote frontiste se propage comme des épidémies de grippe»
Climat : 5 cartes pour comprendre les enjeux géopolitiques. Le fondateur du bitcoin enfin démasqué en Australie ? Fintech players say innovation plan must go further. As Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull moved to the lectern in the fintech hub Stone & Chalk on Tuesday morning, an audience of about 150 start-up entrepreneurs broke into spontaneous applause.
"There has never been a more exciting time to be in fintech," Turnbull said during the launch of an investment partnership between industry super fund First State Super and the fintech venture capital fund H2 Ventures, which is based in Stone & Chalk, a collaborative working space near Circular Quay in Sydney. "There is nowhere more in Australia that the ideas boom is under way than here in Stone & Chalk. " Turnbull, flanked by Treasurer Scott Morrison, Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer and Assistant Innovation Minister Wyatt Roy, said the presence of his senior ministers illustrated the government's "absolute commitment to innovation and supporting all of your imagination and creativity".
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Aux origines climatiques des conflits, par Agnès Sinaï (Le Monde diplomatique, août 2015) Australia's Economic Growth Accelerates as Exports Rebound. Australia’s economy expanded at a faster pace than economists forecast in the three months through September, underscoring the central bank’s decision Tuesday to keep interest rates steady.
Gross domestic product advanced 0.9 percent from the second quarter, when it rose a revised 0.3 percent, government data showed Wednesday. That compared with the median of 28 estimates for a 0.8 percent gain. Dénoncer sous l'Occupation : documentaire inédit ce mercredi. - LeBlogTvNews. The Fall of Breakfast Cereal in the Age of Cheerios Protein. Last year, General Mills launched a new product aimed at health-conscious customers: Cheerios Protein, a version of its popular cereal made with whole-grain oats and lentils.
Early reviews were favorable. The cereal, Huffington Post reported, tasted mostly like regular Cheerios, although “it seemed like they were sweetened and flavored a little more aggressively.” Les tweets de Michel Onfray font-ils partie de son œuvre philosophique ? BBVA: Lessons in Innovation, Working With Startups and Acquisitions. FinTech is exciting but not easy.
Banks will always play a crucial role, especially the ones that understand the nuances of the change that is happening and move along with it. Startups are making their presence felt, shaking up many sleeping behemoths. The startup culture is rebellious and unpredictable, unbounded by heavy heritage and large assets to keep an eye on. So how do banks design their innovation programs, enable symbiotic relationship with startups, acquire right assets, take the right technology calls and work with innovative minds?
Insurance Australia Group in deal with Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. Warren Buffett delighted with IAG deal It may have take Warren Buffett to the age of 84 to have the wisdom to invest in an Australian company, but he feels it was worth the wait.
Insurance Australia Group has formed a strategic relationship with Warren Buffett's investment giant Berkshire Hathaway that will see the US group take a 3.7 per cent stake in IAG via a $500 million placement. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway targets commercial insurance clients. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance is expanding into the Australian commercial insurance market. Photo: Bloomberg Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance is expected to shake up the commercial insurance market as it seeks to lure large corporate clients after opening the doors of its Sydney office on Monday. The new Australian boss of Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance, Chris Colahan, says BHSI will be "playing in the large corporate segment" of Australia's insurance market, which is dominated by players such as Insurance Australia Group, Suncorp Group, and QBE Insurance Group.
"We're targeting across Australia and to start with, as of today, we're launching in property, casualty, financial lines and marine cargo insurance in Australia," he told Fairfax Media. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway gets special ASX treatment in IAG deal. The ASX granted Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway 'anti-dilution rights' over its shares in insurer IAG.
Photo: Bloomberg The Australian Securities Exchange has granted billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway poll position in any future capital raisings by Insurance Australia Group, which has raised the hackles of some investors, and proxy adviser group Ownership Matters. IAG, which has one of the biggest shareholder bases of companies listed on the local exchange, was granted a waiver that would permit Berkshire anti-dilution rights for its shares in the insurer.
Correspondent banking faces ‘existential crisis’ warns PwC. Barclays’ closure of correspondent accounts triggered a heated debate in the House of Commons De-risking, motivated by short-term risk-reward calculations, should not be allowed to kill off one of the cornerstones of the global financial system. Rather than abandon correspondent banking relationships, banks should be thinking about investing in and automating their risk controls, according to a new whitepaper by PwC.
The rise of tough new financial regulation in the years since the financial crisis has seen pressure mount on the correspondent banking network. Pwc correspondent banking whitepaper. Suncorp loses personal insurance CEO Mark Milliner to IAG. Suncorp personal insurance boss Mark Milliner has jumped ship to Insurance Australia Group, taking on the role of chief operating officer. Suncorp Group has lost one of its most senior executives, Mark Milliner, to rival Insurance Australia Group, which has appointed the former personal insurance boss as its new chief operating officer. Mr Milliner, a respected insurance industry veteran, will take on his new role mid next year after resigning from the $17 billion Suncorp Group. He will report to incoming IAG boss Peter Harmer. Mark [Milliner] is one of our sector's leading executives and we are delighted he has chosen to join IAG. Peter Harmer. Event Speech: Approaching the 'Uber Moment' in Financial Services: How Technology Will Radically Disrupt the Sector.
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NAB offers 250,000 frequent flyer points to new mortgage borrowers. Global equities plunge as Fed deflates confidence. Time to forget about the US Fed. How to create a start-up nation under Malcolm Turnbull. Cet appareil vous empêche de faire une photo déjà prise 10 000 fois. Fed chair Janet Yellen's decision has investors scratching their heads.