Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chinese electric-vehicle battery maker CATL said it would raise at least $4bn in what is set to be Hong Kong’s biggest share sale this year. The company’s shares will be priced this week and start … Read more
Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui district commanded the most expensive rental fees among the world’s retail markets last year, as luxury brands from Cartier and Dior to Tiffany kept their flagship stores running on the Kowloon peninsula, according to Savills. Prime retail rent in TST, as the area is called, was £17,132 (US$22,976) per square … Read more
$70 was a common price for N64 software, and that was in 1997 dollars! $70 was a common price for N64 software, and that was in 1997 dollars! Hughes Johnson By 2008, top-end disc-based prices had settled to the current standard of $59.99. By 2008, top-end disc-based prices had settled to the current standard of … Read more
CollaboGate Japan (CG) has formed a business alliance with Tessera Technology (TSSR) to develop a decentralised IoT platform – a first in the world – that will use robust hardware-based security functionality of the Renesas’ microcontrollers (MCUs) to verify contactless transactions conducted through IoT devices. Tokyo-based CG provides Japan’s first decentralized ID platform called UNiD, … Read more
Voters in the predominantly Dutch-speaking Belgian region of Flanders are often assumed to be more conservative than those in predominantly French-speaking Wallonia. Yet as Daan Delespaul shows, there is reason to question whether the two regions constitute distinct political worlds. The structure of western European party systems has long been shaped by sticky political divides … Read more