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☆ ‘A point of no return:’ Why Europe has become an epicenter for anti-tourism protests this summer
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Billy Stockwell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Anti-tourism protests have been sweeping across Europe this summer, with demonstrations taking place in the Netherlands, Greece, and of course, Spain. When anti-tourism protesters started to fire water pistols at visitors in the Barcelona city center on July 6, a moment that gained international attention, Ramirez said he could “feel the resentment” in the air. Frankly, I think it worked,” Ramirez said, reflecting on the ability of the protests to dissuade tourists from visiting the city. Jaime Reina/AFP/Getty ImagesIt’s not just housing issues that have generated a backlash against tourists, Ramirez said, adding that the disrespectful behavior of some has also played a part. Bad tourist behavior has been a problem across other parts of Europe too, including Barcelona, Mallorca, Magaluf and Benidorm, Ramirez said.

Persons: Carlos Ramirez, Ramirez, ”, It’s, Jaume Collboni, Andrey Rudakov, ” Ramirez, Antje Martins, Eduardo Santander, Martins, “, € 2.4million, Marco Bertorello, Luigi Brugnaro, Susanna Polloni, ” Polloni, Collboni, ‘, ’, Jaime Reina, Bacchus, ” Sebastian Zenker, Zenker Organizations: CNN, Primavera Sound, skyrocketing, ”, Bloomberg, Barcelona’s City, University of Queensland, “, European Travel Commission, Getty, Solidarity Network for Housing, Palma de Mallorca, AFP, Copenhagen Business School Locations: Europe, Netherlands, Greece, Spain, Spanish, Barcelona, Mallorca, Southern Europe, Canary, Magaluf, Barcelona’s, Antje, “ Barcelona, €, AFP, Venice, “, Sagrada Familia, Palma de, Florence, Italy, Benidorm

☆ Novo Nordisk's Wegovy bonanza looms large in Denmark
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Maggie Fick | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

COPENHAGEN, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The whirlwind success of weight-loss treatment Wegovy is providing a bonanza not just for its developer, Novo Nordisk (NOVOb.CO), but also for its home country of Denmark. Interviews with Danish economists, analysts, and executives at the Novo Nordisk Foundation which controls Novo highlight the benefits to the economy from jobs to private wealth - but also the potential pitfalls of relying on a single, outsized company. Record profits for Novo are projected to generate returns for the Foundation of more than $12 billion in coming years. Novo Nordisk added 3,500 jobs in Denmark in 2022, bringing the total in the country to 21,000 employees, out of 59,000 worldwide, a company spokesperson said. Before Wegovy, "we used to be kind of, 'Isn't Denmark the place where Stockholm is the capital?'"

Persons: Danes, Lars Skovgaard Andersen, Lars Christensen, Wegovy, Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, " Thomsen, Moller, Thomsen, Melinda Gates, Rasmus Kristian Feldthusen, Maggie Fick, Jacob Gronholt, Alexander Smith, Josephine Mason, Michele Gershberg, Catherine Evans Organizations: Novo Nordisk, Novo Nordisk Foundation, Danske Bank, Copenhagen Business School, Novo, Foundation, Reuters, Novo Holdings, Carlsberg, Maersk, U.S, Melinda Gates Foundation, UK's Wellcome Trust, Wegovy, University of Copenhagen, Nokia, Pedersen, Thomson Locations: COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Danish, Novo, Europe, North America, Asia, OUTGROWING DENMARK, Finland

☆ Huawei Phone Is Latest Shot Fired in the U.S.-China Tech War
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Ana Swanson | More About Ana Swanson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Chinese media have referred to the phone as a sign of the country’s technological independence, but U.S. analysts said the achievement still most likely hinged on the use of American technology and machinery, which would have been in violation of U.S. trade restrictions. For the past several years, those restrictions have curtailed Huawei’s ability to produce 5G phones. But Huawei appears to have found a way around those restrictions to make an advanced phone, at least in limited quantities. Though detailed information about the phone is limited, Huawei’s jade-green Mate 60 Pro appears to have many of the same basic capabilities as other smartphones on the market. An examination of the phone by TechInsights, a Canadian firm that analyzes the semiconductor industry, concluded that the advanced chip inside was manufactured by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation of China and was operating beyond the technology limits that the United States has been trying to enforce.

Persons: Trump, Biden, Douglas Fuller, SMIC Organizations: Huawei, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation of China, Copenhagen Business School Locations: United States, China

The difficulty of this achievement also shows the resilience of the country’s chip technological ability," TechInsights analyst Dan Hutcheson said. EUV refers to extreme ultraviolet lithography and is used to make 7 nm or more advanced chips. LIMITED ACHIEVEMENTThe most advanced chip SMIC had previously been known for making was 14nm, as it was barred by Washington in late 2020 from obtaining an EUV machine from Dutch firm ASML (ASML.AS). But TechInsights last year said it believed SMIC had managed to produce 7 nm chips by tweaking simpler DUV machines it could still purchase freely from ASML. Jefferies analysts reckon Huawei is preparing to ship ten million units of the Mate 60 Pro, though it may struggle to support that quantity with China-made 7 nm chips.

Persons: Gina Raimondo's, chipmaker SMIC, Dan Hutcheson, EUV, Jefferies, TechInsights, SMIC, Tilly Zhang, Dragonomics, Zhang, Doug Fuller, David Kirton, Max Cherney, Brenda Goh, Miyoung Kim, Nick Zieminski Organizations: FRANCISCO, Huawei Technologies, U.S, Huawei, U.S . Commerce, Kirin, HK, U.S . Commerce Department's, of Industry, Security, China, U.S . Department of Commerce, China's State Council, Reuters, Copenhagen Business School, Thomson Locations: SHENZHEN, China, California, Washington, Ottawa, U.S, China's, Netherlands

☆ China's Huawei poised to overcome US ban with return of 5G phones, research firms say
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( David Kirton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Huawei should be able to procure 5G chips domestically using its own advances in semiconductor design tools along with chipmaking from Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co (SMIC), three third-party technology research firms covering China's smartphone sector told Reuters. The firms, citing industry sources including Huawei suppliers, spoke on condition of anonymity because of confidentiality agreements with clients. [1/2]A Huawei logo and a 5G sign are pictured at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Shanghai, China June 28, 2019. The second research firm said it noticed Huawei had asked SMIC to produce chip components below 14 nm this year for 5G products. The forecast yield rate of less than 50% means that 5G chips are "going to be costly", said Doug Fuller who researches chips at the Copenhagen Business School.

Persons: SMIC, Canalys, Aly, Doug Fuller, Fuller, David Kirton, Jamie Freed Organizations: Huawei, Huawei Technologies, chipmaking, Semiconductor Manufacturing International, Reuters, Apple, Samsung, China Securities Journal, Mobile World Congress, REUTERS, Copenhagen Business School, Thomson Locations: SHENZHEN, China, Shenzhen, U.S, Shanghai, Washington

☆ China's Huawei poised to overcome US ban with return of 5G phones - research firms
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( David Kirton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

[1/2] A Huawei logo and a 5G sign are pictured at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Shanghai, China June 28, 2019. Huawei should be able to procure 5G chips domestically using its own advances in semiconductor design tools along with chipmaking from Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co (SMIC), three third-party technology research firms covering China's smartphone sector told Reuters. The firms, citing industry sources including Huawei suppliers, spoke on condition of anonymity because of confidentiality agreements with clients. The second research firm said it noticed Huawei had asked SMIC to produce chip components below 14 nm this year for 5G products. The forecast yield rate of less than 50% means that 5G chips are "going to be costly", said Doug Fuller who researches chips at the Copenhagen Business School.

Persons: Aly, SMIC, Canalys, Doug Fuller, Fuller, David Kirton, Jamie Freed Organizations: Huawei, Mobile World Congress, REUTERS, Huawei Technologies, chipmaking, Semiconductor Manufacturing International, Reuters, Apple, Samsung, China Securities Journal, Copenhagen Business School, Thomson Locations: Shanghai, China, SHENZHEN, Shenzhen, U.S, Washington

☆ The U.S. isn't the only country with a debt ceiling. Here's how Denmark avoids the drama
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-24 | by ( Elliot Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

U.S. President Joe Biden hosts debt limit talks with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 22, 2023. Yet in Denmark — the only other democracy with a similar type of nominal debt ceiling — barely anybody knows it exists. Separation of church and state While the U.S. debt ceiling restricts government borrowing to a particular figure, most other economies set debt limits as a percentage of GDP. The Danish debt ceiling, or "gældsloft," was implemented as a constitutional requirement in 1993 after a restructure of the country's government, and set at 950 billion Danish kroner ($137.5 billion). Denmark is the only other country in the world with a debt ceiling comparable to that of the U.S., but it never causes the same political crises that Washington frequently faces.

☆ Japan deal won't help UK diversify away from Taiwan reliance, says academic
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailJapan deal won't help UK diversify away from Taiwan reliance, says academicDouglas Fuller, associate professor at the Copenhagen Business School, says the U.K.'s deal with Japan won't make much difference to chip supply compared to steps taken by the U.S. and EU.

☆ Employees Terrorize Their Bosses Into Going Woke
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Dave Seminara | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Why do big companies seem to be getting only more woke? It’s a question I’ve been asked frequently since I started to maintain a list of woke businesses in April 2021. I was frustrated that much of corporate America was fecklessly endorsing Democratic fear-mongering about a newly passed election-integrity law in Georgia—which, indeed, subsequent minority voter turnout proved to be a hysterical reaction. Most have become even more woke, inserting themselves into such issues as abortion and parental rights in education, causing my list to grow and grow. A new paper by researchers from Baylor University and the Copenhagen Business School helps shed light on why.

☆ Frauda bancară nu se uită. O tânără, care studiază în Danemarca, și-a scris teza de licență pe acest subiect
▼ + stars: | 2021-02-28 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | Corespondentă Din Liceu | ) diez.md time to read: +4 min

Astfel, Alexandrina Varzari, studentă la Copenhagen Business School, și-a scris teza de licență cu titlul „FRAUDA BANCARĂ DIN REPUBLICA MOLDOVA (2012-2015). Programa de studii a tinerei a permis studenților de a-și forma o teză în care pot urmări propriile interese în aria largă a afacerilor și a politicii internaționale. În acest context, Alexandrina și-a ales să studieze mai mult despre frauda bancară, întrucât este un subiect care a afectat fiecare cetățean al Republicii Moldova și economia locală a sa, raspândindu-se pe plan internațional. Mediul extrem de fraudulos din Moldova a permis aplicarea cu succes a schemelor frauduloase timp de trei ani, fără a fi sesizate și înghețate. Mai mult, prin analiza secundară a datelor calitative și a interviurilor, concluzionez că, teoretic, argumentul meu este valabil.

Persons: Alexandrina Varzari, Alexandrina, fără, Ernst B . Haas Organizations: Copenhagen Business School, UE Locations: Copenhagen, Republicii Moldova, UE, România, Bulgaria, Republica Moldova, Moldova, RM, Danemarcei

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