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How May will navigate the perilous road to Brexit

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has nine months to define what Brexit will actually mean and she’ll have to do battle on three fronts to get there—in Brussels, in Parliament and with her own Conservative Party. Her priorities are to decide what the future relationship with Europe might look like, solve the intractable puzzle of the Irish border and see ...

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Is DBS walking, talking and earning like fintech?

It tells you something about the priorities of Southeast Asia’s largest bank when it announces a hackathon to quickly recruit 100 budding technologists. DBS Group Holdings Ltd hired the same number last year, but this year its needs are spread over a wider skill set, including user-interface design and mobile-application development, even scrum mastery, which, I understand, has nothing to ...

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Apple has better track record than newer tech titans

It’s easy to understand Apple chief executive officer (CEO) Tim Cook’s somewhat self-righteous comments on the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal: His company has never emphasized customer data monetization, and privacy has been one of its persistent selling points. Apple still collects our data—and reserves the right to share it—but the company has a much better track record than newer tech titans. ...

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