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Whether it is your local grocery store or a startup with a tiny amount of capital and big dreams, almost everywhere you look, small firms typically form the backbone of a country’s economy. Together, they employ the majority of the global workforce and tend to generate a substantial share of economic output. But small businesses’ size and relatively diminutive political clout compared with, for instance, large airlines or banks, mean they are also more vulnerable to economic downturns than ...

Hong Kong, China – In February, as Hong Kong was beginning to feel the grip of its first wave of coronavirus infections, 33-year-old Albert Chen and his father, Tim, sat down to discuss the dire state of their family’s outdoor furniture business as the pandemic took hold. “It was really scary. Sales were down around 50 percent from the year before,” Albert Chen told Al Jazeera. “We were thinking of different ways to survive in this economy and dad suggested we buy mask-making machines...

‘Never say never’: How two small Hong Kong firms survived COVID Britt Clennett © Pivoting from making outdoor furniture to face masks, a family-run business in Hong Kong realised th... Pivoting from making outdoor furniture to face masks, a family-run business in Hong Kong realised they had struck gold when their multi-coloured coverings first sold out within six hours [File: Britt Clennett/Al Jazeera] In February, as Hong Kong was beginning to feel the grip of its first ...

Dec 15, 2020 8:43pm Affirmed worked with the Taiwanese manufacturer Inventec. The deployment marks a departure for Affirmed, which worked primarily with service providers in the past. (Inventec) A Taiwanese IT hardware manufacturer has deployed a virtualized private 5G network using its own servers along with core network software from Affirmed, which was recently acquired by Microsoft. The RAN software comes from ASOCS, an Israeli provider of on-premise cloud solutions. The network was deplo...

News Wire Feed Light Reading 12/16/2020 ACTON, Mass. – Affirmed Networks announced today that it has been selected by Inventec, a leading Taiwanese manufacturer of consumer technology solutions, to deliver secure, private 5G networks for their smart manufacturing. This selection is an important part of Inventecs adoption of Industry 4.0 and their transformation towards digital operations and robotic automation for large-scale manufacturing. Affir...

The following article is part of Jay Jaffe’s ongoing look at the candidates on the BBWAA 2021 Hall of Fame ballot. For a detailed introduction to this year’s ballot, and other candidates in the series, use the tool above; an introduction to JAWS can be found here. For a tentative schedule and a chance to fill out a Hall of Fame ballot for our crowdsourcing project, see here. All WAR figures refer to the Baseball-Reference version unless otherwise indicated. Torii Hunter could go get it. Flu...

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malveaux in for tony harris. those stories and your comments right here right now in the cnn newsroom. just five days until the midterm elections with democrats facing a serious challenge from republicans. president obama takes his campaign to comedy central. he was the guest on "the daily show" with jon stewart last night. one of the lighter moments came when the president defended economic adviser larry summers. >> in fairness, larry summers did a heck of a job trying to figure out...