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India’s electric-scooter champion goes public

Two-wheeled vehicles are an integral part of life in India. They whizz over the country’s broken, clogged roads, carrying families and loads that would fill a small lorry. India manufactures about 20m...

What Chipotle and McDonald’s say about the consumer slowdown

Near Schumpeter’s home in Los Angeles are two fast-food restaurants almost kitty-corner to each other, as Americans quaintly put it. In different ways, both help explain one of the biggest puzzles in...

What could kill the $1trn artificial-intelligence boom?

“The risk of under-investing is dramatically greater than the risk of over-investing,” said Sundar Pichai, the boss of Alphabet, on an earnings call last week. He, like lots of executives nowadays, was...

What are the threats to the $1trn artificial-intelligence boom?

“The risk of under-investing is dramatically greater than the risk of over-investing,” said Sundar Pichai, the boss of Alphabet, on an earnings call last week. He, like lots of executives nowadays, was...

LVMH is splurging on the Olympics

Pay close attention as the medals are draped over the victors of this year’s Olympic games in Paris and you may spot a hexagonal piece of wrought iron at their centre. That...

Can China smash the Airbus-Boeing duopoly?

Each year Airbus and Boeing, the two halves of the global aircraft duopoly, face off at the world’s most prestigious airshow, which alternates between Paris and Farnborough, in the countryside close to...

Machines might not take your job. But they could make it worse

July 19th was a day for help-desk heroes and support superstars. A routine software update by CrowdStrike, a cyber-security company, caused computer outages in offices, hospitals and airports worldwide. Most white-collar workers...

Why is Mark Zuckerberg giving away Meta’s crown jewels?

As alter egos go, Augustus Caesar is not a bad one for Mark Zuckerberg, pontifex maximus of Meta, owner of the Facebook family of apps. Both men started their march to power...

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