Patrick Hourigan has spent nearly 12 years at IBM, initially as a systems telecoms engineer and then as a software developer. 帕特里克胡里根在IBM工作了近12年,起初他是一名系统电信工程师,然后成为了一名软件开发者。...
Snap followed Facebook, Netflix and Twitter by reporting disappointing user-growth figures. Daily users of the Snapchat app actually fell by 2% from April to June compared with the previous three months. Snap got a vote of confidence, however, from P...
American companies spent $91bn on staff training last year, almost a third as much again as they did in 2016. 去年美国公司员工培训支出为910亿美元,比2016年多了近三分之二。 That equated to more than $1,000 for every staff me...
But it will provide no other details for fear of tipping off rivals, of whom there are several. 但由于担心向对手(对手有几家)泄密,公司并未提供其他细节。 (Though one potential competitor, Facebook, closed its own high al...
Stuck in the past 故步自封 Countries must overhaul their tax systems to make them fit for the 21st century 为适应21世纪新环境,各国须彻底改革税制 If you are a high earner in a rich country and you lack a good accountant, 如果你...
I wish we could be private with Tesla. So said an exasperated and exhausted Elon Musk to Rolling Stone last November. 我希望可以将特斯拉私有化。去年11月在对话《滚石》杂志时,愤怒又疲惫的埃隆马斯克说如是。 Tes...
America reimposed sanctions on Iran, three months after pulling out of an accord brokered in 2015 to roll back its nuclear-weapons programme. A European Union law aims to shield EU-based firms that deal with Iran from the sanctions. But Donald Trump...
Vijay Bhaskar of Mlinda says a big mistake in development has been to assume that, Mlinda公司的Vijay Bhaskar表示发展中的一个大问题是假设 once people are hooked up to electricity, businesses will automatically flourish. 一旦人们通上...
The rise of jihadism in Africa is rooted in bad governance, 非洲圣战主义起源于管理不善, exacerbated by population pressure and climate change. 也与人口压力和气候变化的影响有关。 When the state is corrupt and predatory,...
A forested village in Jharkhand state, eastern India, Narotoli is home mainly to adherents of Sarna, a nature-worshipping tribal religion. Narotoli,位于印度东部尔克汗邦的一个草木丛生的村庄,这里居住的大部分都是萨尔纳...