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Skeleton Technologies, the largest European manufacturer of ultracapacitors, and Marubeni Corporation, one of Japan’s largest conglomerates with more than €50 billion of annual revenue, signed a strategic cooperation agreement to support commercial scale-up and customer acquisition for Skeleton’s new generation of ultracapacitors—called the SuperBattery—in the Asian automotive sector. The technology can serve the fast-growing electrified …

BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly lower in Asia on Thursday after a mixed session on Wall Street as losses by technology and industrial companies offset other gains. Shanghai saw a modest gain after reopening following the Lunar New Year holiday. Shares fell in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney. The yield on the 10-year Treasury …

© Reuters. A man wearing a protective face mask walks past a stock quotation board outside a brokerage, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo By Hideyuki Sano TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian shares scaled a record high on Friday on growing prospects of a large U.S. economic stimulus package, while hopes that coronavirus vaccine …

Sociology professor Margaret M. Chin adds a new perspective in her new book Stuck: Why Asian Americans Don’t Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder to the decades-long dilemma of the Bamboo Ceiling. That’s the Asian American version of the Glass Ceiling for white women and people of color to break into the highest level …

A currency trader walks by the screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) at the foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. Asian stock markets gained Thursday after Wall Street rebounded from a three-day slump for tech stocks. …

TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Friday following a selloff of technology shares on Wall Street. “Big tech stocks might have seemed like safe havens, but they have found themselves at the center of a brutal sell-off,” said Stephen Innes, chief global market strategist at AxiCorp. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 recouped early losses to …

It was after reading Exit West in an English class last fall that Kazmi became intrigued by the role of technology in migration stories. In Exit West, magical doors open that allow people to instantly slip past international borders. “The doors are like technology,” Kazmi observed. Kazmi, who is from Pakistan, also wanted to spend a summer …

AsianScientist (Apr. 28, 2020) – While farmers have always been subject to the vagaries of soil and seasons, they now face unprecedented challenges that threaten to radically alter the ancient art of agriculture. Food now flows into a supply chain network spanning the globe, with hidden dependencies and a tendency toward wild fluctuations in demand …

Dow (INDU) futures fell more than 900 points earlier in the morning, hitting a 5% decline that triggered a maximum allowable limit, or “limit down.” That halted futures from falling further. They were last down around 760 points, or 4%. S&P 500 (SPX) and Nasdaq (COMP) futures also fell around 5%, and were last down …

The latest: Health officials in the United States warned Tuesday that the spread of the novel coronavirus in the country appears inevitable. Coronavirus is moving closer to becoming a pandemic. Problems with a U.S. government-created coronavirus test have limited the country’s capacity to rapidly increase testing, just as the outbreak has entered a worrisome new …