The Redmond-based tech giant has managed to avoid the trappings of a stock market drop that wiped out hundreds of billions in value from some of the world’s biggest tech companies.
The Senate's Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, approved through a unanimous consent vote, would require the US secretary of state to certify at least once a year that Hong Kong retains enough autonomy to qualify for special US trading consideration that bolsters its status as a world financial center. It also would provide for sanctions against officials responsible for human rights violations in Hong Kong.
The SAR government has requested that the country's top legislature determine how to proceed with the vacuum created by the postponement.
The Prime Data plan was in hindsight a?poorly sourced rumor, or maybe it is still in the works. But for now, the company is tied up in an exclusive partnership with AT&T, which severely limits its potential customer base to one of the four U.S. carriers. (Internationally, Amazon announced today the Fire Phone was now available for pre-order?in the UK and Germany with exclusives at?O2 and Deutsche Telekom, respectively.)
The Sanders campaign says it will address this type of behavior and push corporations to pay their fair share in federal taxes, too. Sanders estimates that under his plan, Amazon would have paid up to .8 billion in taxes last year.
The Pentagon in Washington DC. [Photo/VCG]
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The Russia-China Investment Fund is a joint fund established by sovereign wealth funds China Investment Corp of China and Russian Direct Investment Fund of Russia. The China-Eurasian Economic Cooperation Fund, backed by the Export and Import Bank of China, is an important equity investment vehicle set up by China to realize the strategic goals of the Belt and Road Initiative.
The Seattle City Council will now be required to select a replacement for Harrell, to serve as mayor until Jenny Durkan or Cary Moon is elected in November. Harrell asked the Council to consider a replacement at its Monday meeting.
The Seattle supercomputer maker landed some blockbuster contracts in 2014 — a million deal with the U.S. Department of Defense; an million deal with?Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; and a 8 million deal with the U.K’s weather agency (the largest in the company’s history). Those deals led to yet another strong year for the company.
The September crude futures contract that registered the largest trading volume on Monday, with the transaction amount reaching 17.64 billion yuan (.8 bill