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The South-east Asian country is striving for an upgrade from frontier to emerging-market status by the end of 2025[HO CHI MINH CITY] Vietnam has further opened its stock market through a series of reforms, including enabling higher foreign ownership and accelerating initial public offerings (IPOs), marking a step towards greater efficiency and an emerging-market upgrade.A decree effective from Thursday (Sep 11) removes the option for public firms to unilaterally set foreign ownership caps lower than the thresholds allowed by law and international commitments. Previously established lower caps can be retained or raised, but cannot be lowered.“(The amendments) ensure compliance with…

Expanding your Chromebook storage with network-attached NVMe lets you increase capacity without opening your device. You connect a high-speed NVMe SSD to a NAS or server on your network, then access it via protocols like SMB or NFS. This setup offers fast transfer speeds and flexible storage management. If you’d like guidance on choosing hardware, setting up your network storage, and securing access, you’ll find useful tips as you explore further. Key Takeaways Use network-attached NVMe SSDs via NAS or server to increase Chromebook storage capacity over the network. Select high-speed drives (≥1TB, ≥3,000 MB/s) and compatible network hardware for…

This week in ESG: Green Investments Partnership fund raises US$510 million; the need for climate reportingSustainable financePeering into the blended fund Fund vehicles are the hottest thing in the world of blended finance, and Singapore is in the thick of the excitement.

Their role transcends beyond being a ‘policeman’, he says; they also need to be a ‘navigator’ and ‘shepherd’[SINGAPORE] Many corporate boards are largely unprepared for future complexities, said former DBS chief executive Piyush Gupta at a conference organised by the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID) on Friday (Sep 12).Speaking at a panel, Gupta said that he does not think boards are ready because the expectations of boards is to be a “policeman”, particularly after the global financial crisis. Fellow panellist Andrew White, Blackmore Family Foundation chair of business leadership at Griffith University, said that boards are not prepared because we have…

Debojyoti ‘Debo’ Dutta admits that his deep domain experience means he is just “a little biased” when it comes to talking about the overwhelming theme of the day: the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in the enterprise. However, his understandable boosterism is balanced by a commitment to PPT – not PowerPoint, but the eternal triangle that encompasses people, process and technology as tripartite fundamentals to organisational success.   As a computer science graduate and PhD via studies spanning India and California, Dutta collected valuable experience in neural networks, expert systems and other AI-related strands, with special reference to its applicability…

BRUSSELS : Microsoft avoided a possible hefty EU antitrust fine by offering customers reduced prices for Office products excluding Teams, a move on Friday that comes amid rising tensions with the United States over EU scrutiny of Big Tech.The case was triggered by a 2020 complaint from Salesforce-owned Slack Technologies Inc to the European Commission, which accused Microsoft of bundling its chat and video app Teams with its Office product to gain an unfair advantage over rivals.German rival alfaview filed a similar complaint in 2023.Microsoft has agreed to widen the price gap by 50 per cent between certain Microsoft 365…

Another cut is entirely possible, says French central bank governor Francois Villeroy[FRANKFURT] European Central Bank (ECB) policymakers were keeping their options open on Friday (Sep 12) about possible future interest rate cuts, flagging an uncertain outlook for trade, energy prices and foreign exchange rates. The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged on Thursday and maintained an upbeat view on growth and inflation, leading traders to cut their expectations for any further reductions in borrowing costs.But a number of policymakers speaking on Friday hinted that the debate was far from over, even now that the ECB has halved its policy…

Artificial intelligence is finding its way into more and more areas of our lives. But while there are concerns around the use of the technology itself, there are much greater ones over how we secure it. We spoke to Anand Kashyap, CEO and founder of Fortanix, to discuss confidential computing, a technology backed by Microsoft, Intel, Arm, AMD and Nvidia, which encrypts data while it’s being processed, even by AI systems. BN: In simple terms how does confidential computing work? AK: Confidential Computing is a privacy enhancing technology that protects data that’s ‘in use’ by performing computation in a physical……

A Georgia hospital declared Adriana Smith legally brain dead in February. She was nine weeks pregnant. Today, her body is being kept on life support to give the fetus she was carrying an opportunity to thrive. She is not breathing on her own. She can not speak or communicate in other way. Her condition is considered irreversible. She has been hospitalized for more than 90 days. “Brain death, also commonly referred to as death by neurologic criteria, has been considered a legal definition of death for decades” and “although functions of many of the body’s organ systems can be artificially…

To crystallize these concepts, rather than create another new computer, Raskin instead started work on a software package with a team that included his son, Aza, initially called The Humane Environment. THE’s HumaneEditorProject was first unveiled to the world on Christmas Eve 2002, though initially only as a SourceForge CVS tree, since it was considered very unfinished. The original early builds of the Humane Editor were open-source and intended to run on classic Mac OS 9, though QEMU, SheepShaver and Classic under Tiger and earlier will also run it. Default document. Credit: Cameron Kaiser As before, the Humane Editor uses…