Key antitrust lawmaker frustrated with Google’s Fitbit deal

In a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, Makan Delrahim, the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, said his investigative staff was focused on understanding how personalized advertising transactions work. Facebook and Google, in particular, depend on advertising for their revenue.”By understanding these competitive dynamics, we can understand how th…

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Bernard Arnault says LVMH sponsorship of Paris 2024 Olympics is “being discussed”

“The contract you are talking about has not been signed. It is being discussed and, like any discussion, it could end with a signature or not,” said Arnault, answering a shareholder’s question at LVMH’s AGM.The world’s number one luxury group becoming a premium sponsor, alongside five others who have already signed up (BPCE, Orange, EDF, Sanofi and Carrefour), is highly anticipated.คำ…

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Germany backs draft law to protect parcel delivery drivers

The legislation was proposed after police launched nationwide raids on subcontracting delivery firms in February and uncovered numerous cases of social security fraud and drivers working off the books.”Sub-sub-sub contractors are working in many areasคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Wages a…

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Negotiators to push for global digital tax after pandemic, US vote stall talks

The hard-fought talks over how to tax digital behemoths, such as Google and Facebook, are part of the biggest overhaul of international tax rules in a generation, conducted under the stewardship of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).Negotiators are due on Thursday and Friday to wrap up months of talks on rewriting cross-border tax rules for the age of digital comme…

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Japan December retail sales up in welcome sign for consumption

The 1.3 percent rise in retail sales in December from a year earlier was more than the median estimate for a 0.8 percent annual increase and followed a 1.4 percent gain in November.Retail sales are a key barometer of the strength of private consumption, which accounts for roughly 60 percent of the Japanese economy.

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PETA addresses slaughterhouse practices at Lululemon

PETA said on Wednesday that it has submitted a shareholder resolution to the company’s board of directors calling for a report on the slaughter methods used to obtain the down used in its jackets. “Lululemon is selling jackets filled with the feathers of birds who are violently killed, betraying the yoga principle of ahimsa, or nonviolence, that it splashes on its shopping bags,” said PE…

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Swedish project to make clothes from air

“If we succeed the technique has the potential to be a game changer within the textile industry,” says Lena-Marie Jensen, coordinator of the project “From Air”.Together with researchers at the University of Borås, Sweden, Smart Textiles is committed to an innovative project aimed to bring a systematic shift in the textile industry using a new methane filtration production methodคำพ…

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PostNL opens new parcel sorting center in Amsterdam

PostNL said that the 6,600-square-metre building will process between 70,000 and 110,000 parcels a day. The new location launched to contribute to the increasing capacity for the sorting and distribution of packages in both the Netherlands and Belgium.The new sorting center has the BREEAM certificate ‘Outstanding’, which indicates that the building is sustainable with minimal environmental impa…

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Trump administration says to open trade talks with EU, UK, Japan

Under fast-track rules, the United States cannot start talks with the EU, Japan and the United Kingdom until 90 days after notifying Congress.”We will continue to expand U.S. trade and investment by negotiating trade agreements with Japan, the EU and the United Kingdom,” said U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in a statement.

“We are committed to concluding these negotiations w…

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UK inflation spikes again to hit another 40-year high

The reading, up from 9% in April, matched the consensus of a Reuters poll of economists. Historical records from the Office for National Statistics show May’s inflation was the highest since March 1982 — and worse is likely to come.Sterling, one of the worst performing currencies against the U.S. dollar this year, fell below $1.22, down 0.6% on the day.คำพูดจาก Read more