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Serving with purpose: Expectations of non-profit board directors
Unlike directors of listed companies, NPO directors operate in an environment where the Code of Corporate Governance, Companies Act and…
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Panerai’s New CEO Strives to Increase Visibility While Mining the Brand’s Heritage
Emmanuel Perrin is humble. Despite a rich résumé that includes a 33-year career at Richemont heading its specialist watchmakers group,…
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Do robots dream of perfect hands?
Ask the most bullish representatives of big AI companies, and they’ll tell you that robotic colleagues and house staff are just around the…
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Vietnam Overtakes China as Leading Clothing Exporter to the United States
Vietnam has surpassed China as the top exporter of clothing to the US in the first seven months of 2025 due to changes in trade patterns…
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This home battery startup just raised $1 billion to build a new type of power company
When a winter storm took out the power grid across Texas in 2021, Matt Popovits and his family didn’t have electricity for four days and…
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Gavin and Stacey book by James Corden and Ruth Jones reveals secrets
When Ruth Jones and James Corden first met in 2000, they never imagined it would lead to 22 episodes of a record-breaking TV show. The…
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Paramount Skydance Hires Roku’s Jay Askinasi as Chief Revenue Officer
Paramount Skydance has recruited Jay Askinasi, most recently Roku’s top advertising exec, as chief revenue officer. Askinasi will start at…
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Tesla investigated over self-driving cars driving on wrong side of road
Tesla is being investigated by the US government after reports the firm's self-driving cars had broken traffic laws, including driving on…
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Who is the CEO of Verizon?
Do you have Verizon? If you never heard of it or live under a rock, Verizon is a well-known brand of telecommunications that is used all…
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Ex-CIMB Singapore chief Victor Lee to join Security Bank in the Philippines as CEO
Victor Lee, the former chief executive officer of CIMB Singapore, has been appointed president and CEO of the Philippine-listed Security…
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The Fed released the minutes from its September rate cut meeting. Here’s what they reveal
Most members of the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate setting committee supported further reductions to its key interest rate this year,…
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US: Wall Street subdued at open after Powell offers no rate clues
Wall Street’s main indices posted subdued gains at Thursday’s (Oct 9) open, after Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell offered no fresh…
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University of Phoenix IPO: All eyes on the stock price as education partners go public during shutdown
With no end in sight to the political impasse in Washington that has shut down the government, the U.S. IPO market is expected to…
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Launch of knowledge hub aims to beef up AI use among financial institutions: Chee Hong Tat
The knowledge hub is part of the Pathfin.ai programme, which was first announced in July The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has…
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Halfdays Secures $10 Million in Series A Funding
The women-led outdoor apparel brand Halfdays has closed a $10 million series A funding round. The investment in the five-year-old company…
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Megyn Kelly to Lead Her Own SiriusXM Channel in New Multi-Year Deal
Megyn Kelly led one show at a time on the schedule of Fox News Channel and, subsequently, NBC. Soon, she’s going to spearhead many at…
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Surprise rate decisions in Asia signal growing economic unease
They underscore growing domestic economic and market uncertainties exacerbated by US tariffs Three central banks over two days surprised…
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This 26-year-old founder beat Meta and OpenAI to creating an AI TikTok. Does she know where the industry will go next?
We’ve been expecting the tsunami of AI-generated videos ever since we first got a taste of AI’s image-making abilities several years ago.…
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Hedge funds are using options to bet on year-end US dollar gain
Hedge funds worldwide look to be favouring the US dollar in the option market as they bet that the currency’s rebound versus most major…
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The most valuable metric in marketing isn’t impressions, it’s the ‘group gasp’
I’ll never forget the first time I saw the power of a group gasp. Years ago, at a Baltimore Ravens game, a film I’d helped create played…
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Gold Is Booming and That’s Really Bad News
My more paranoid self says the whole thing’s a conspiracy engineered by Fox News and Newsmax. I’ve long maintained that Fox and Newsmax…
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Singapore stocks buck regional trend; STI down 0.4%
All three local banks end lower; Genting Singapore is the most actively traded counter on the STI for the second day running Local shares…
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Water bills to rise further for millions after appeal
Millions of households in England will have to pay even higher water bills than had previously been announced, after five water companies…
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Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing posts record profit for fourth year
The apparel maker beats its own forecast, with operating profit jumping to 564.3 billion yen Japan’s Fast Retailing, owner of global…