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What Jet Airways near collapse says about India

It looks like Jet Airways Ltd.’s luck has finally run out. India’s oldest privately owned airline is on the verge of shutting down all its flights — it already has perhaps fewer than 10 aircraft active — because it simply doesn’t have enough working capital. It’s more than a billion dollars in debt and has lost money for the last ...

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Targets of Citigroup are easy to question

Citigroup Inc. executives appear optimistic about the momentum they see across the firm’s businesses, from branded credit cards to M&A and treasury services. Whether the modest revenue expansion they expect for this year will enable the US bank to get closer to its financial targets is another question. The bank’s new CFO, Mark Mason, presented his first set of earnings ...

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Why is Zuckerberg relaxed about UK speech rules?

Britain’s plans to regulate online content have triggered an unsurprising furore about censorship. But that’s largely fine with the technology giants – because it distracts attention from a bigger problem that goes to the heart of their business model. The white paper on online harms is an effort to curb the online spread of dangerous content, such as incitement to ...

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