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Leaving the EU is an English nationalism thing

Nationalism is irrational, bizarre and threatening. Unless it’s your own, in which case it’s natural and reasonable. That’s a lesson I’ve learned as a foreign correspondent and one that teaches a lot about the U.K.’s furious debate over whether to leave the European Union. With each passing week of the campaign, the evidence that voting to exit the EU would ...

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Are tech giants making money on the cloud?

  It’s now safe to assume that all software-based businesses will be cloud-based eventually. That raises an important question: Do we know how the major players are doing in the cloud? The answer is, “not really,” and that’s an issue that investors should raise with tech leaders. Installing software, especially specialized business-oriented systems, on local computers is obsolete, as is ...

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Amid fish deaths, social media comes alive in Vietnam

  Thu Huong Le SPECIAL TO EMIRATES BUSINESS In Vietnam, a scandal surrounding the mass die-off of fish has created an explosive wave of debate and activism on social media, particularly Facebook. Responding to the social media outcry, many rallied in cities across Vietnam on Sunday, during a national four-day holiday. The rallies took place at an unprecedented scale, spanning ...

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