David Li, a sophomore at New Hartford Senior High School, is a champion. In both seventh and eighth grade, Li won the state championship in the MATHCounts competition for sixth- through eighth-graders. Li said he participated “just to test my ability to do math quickly.” At 8 a.m. today, students from schools throughout the region […]
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US ups the ante in trade war with China, threatens tariffs on $200 billion of goods
The Trump administration raised the stakes in its trade dispute with China, threatening 10 percent tariffs on a list of $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, sending stocks lower and prompting Beijing to warn it would be forced to respond. China’s commerce ministry said on Wednesday it was “shocked” and would complain to the World […]
“Blockchain tech is here to stay”
In a little over three years, Lisa Su, 48, President and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), has changed the fortunes of the semiconductor company that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. When she took over AMD in 2014, the company was bleeding and reported losses of $403 million in […]
Food-delivery app, Swiggy, raises $100 million in its largest funding round from Naspers and Meituan-Dianping
Last year, India’s leading food delivery app had made headlines like ‘Swiggy lost Rs 1.5 for every Re 1 it earned [in FY17]’. But the Bangalore-based startup shouldered on, and its perseverance has paid off big time – yesterday it raised USD 100 million in its Series F funding from Naspers, a global internet and […]
“Trade wars to have less direct impact on India”
How do you see the trade war playing out? A: Dr. Ira Kalish: There is a high degree of uncertainty about it. It’s not clear how far we’ll go and what the specific causes will be. There’s evidence that businesses in the US and Europe are putting investments, particularly in the global supply chain, on […]
Testing Times
On May 22, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) approved the $66 billion mega-merger of German chemical and pharma major Bayer AG and the US seed giant Monsanto. As the merged entity will have intellectual property rights (IPR)-linked control, including patent protection, over more than 90 per cent of the genetically modified (GM) traits across […]
India granted 86 per cent of total patents to foreigners in 2017: UN
The number of patents granted by India jumped 50 per cent to 12,387 in 2017 as compared to 8,248 granted in the previous year, according to data released by the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). India granted 86 per cent (10,675) of the total patents to foreigners as compared to 14 per cent (1,712) […]
Q&A: Fortune 500s are turning to academics for cybersecurity Special
Several big companies protect their most valuable secrets using cryptographic keys. However, many of these approaches are vulnerable to cyber-attack. Professor Nigel Smart has taken an obscure academic theory and transformed this into a significant security breakthrough. To learn more, Digital Journal spoke with Professor Smartin an interview. Digital Journal: What are the main cyber […]