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Conglomerates are dead, but tech giants are conglomerates in training (Larry Dignan, ZDNet)

Conglomerates are dead. Will big tech get the memo? Conglomerates are dead, but tech giants are conglomerates in training | ZDNet

Facebook’s Meta pushes back Messenger and Instagram encryption plans until 2023 (Liam Tung, ZDNet)

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has pushed back its plans to enable end-to-end encryption (E2EE) as the default on Facebook Messenger and Instagram...

Can Japan’s economy recover under Kishida? (Naohiro Yashiro, East Asia Forum)

Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida won his first election on 31 October 2021 by achieving a majority of seats in Japan’s lower house....

The end of development tourism: A new model for development cooperation (Patrick Fine, Brookings)

The time has come for international agencies, donors, and NGOs to adapt their business cultures and operating models to a new era of international...

A 3-pronged approach to meet the needs of aspiring women entrepreneurs in Vietnam (Tran Thi Ngoc Tran, Brookings)

As the Vietnam government looks to help the economy recover from the COVID-19 crisis, the need to increase the viability of women-owned businesses has...

A conversation with Nicolas Gharbi, principal advisor on international affairs of Madrid (Zoe Swarzenski and Max Bouchet, Brookings)

On November 8, Tony Pipa, senior fellow of the Brookings Center for Sustainable Development, hosted Nicolas Gharbi, principal advisor on international affairs of the...

Automation and the radicalization of America (Julian Jacobs, Brookings)

As digital technology accelerates, there are questions about who is most likely to lose jobs due to automation and what the overall future of...

North Korea is addressing the pandemic in its ‘style.’ That means leaving a lot of people hungry (Andrew Yeo, Brookings)

North Korea shut its borders in January 2020 — arguably one of the world’s most restrictive pandemic border closures, with reports of “shoot to kill”...

Biden’s Summit for Democracy should focus on rights, not economics and geopolitics (Thomas Pepinsky, Brookings)

President Joe Biden’s first “Summit for Democracy” is an opportunity for the United States to highlight civil liberties, freedom of conscience, and peaceful dissent...

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