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plant for indian found as a back in court next month. growing its own trademark variety used chips. and facebook says the future is private but how will it make money if we stop sharing details about our lives. i mean physical and let's do business it's labor day workers joining rallies around the world they want better deals in this sector is or a better government in many cases in the philippines thousands of workers and activists marched through the capital manila they called on the government of president ford . to increase the country's minimum wage. becomes a week ahead of elections for the filipino senate. well the atmosphere couldn't have been any more difference in other parts of the world like cambodia gambon make has staged a rather cheerful parade the first in years with officials lifting a ban on may day notches the demonstrators called for gender equality and
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protection of rights are also blessed by as much as you can see that. in china young entrepreneurs a challenging the widespread culture of excessive overtime they want an end to what people call nine nine six working nine am to nine pm six days a week. dimension is a shanghai startup or develops internet encryption tools but recently founders who g.n. and his girlfriend cut who works as an advisor to the company have made headlines with a different issue they brought attention to china's nine nine six phenomenon nine am to nine pm six days a week the normal working schedule for tech employees and a clear violation of china's labor laws local police or local labor protection and it is to take the always to go back to a right to saying ok factory we know you guys want to be a force you want to force your employer you all work that no one thought up the
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tech industry before together young men who have written a piece of text that programmers can use in license agreements it says that any company who violates labor laws loses the right to use the software and although both of them know it would be hard to enforce this they hope to bring attention to working conditions in the chinese tech industry. in the chinese internet their initiative has sparked a heated debate one of the most prominent voices founder jake ma china's most successful internet entrepreneur says that china's economic miracle has been built on people's willingness to work hard to be young he has an advice finding work is like finding a lover he says if you are truly in love you won't feel the time passing by for start up companies are ever there are less romantic questions to consider jollied seeing is working for a venture capital firm that invests in startups which are that it is very difficult
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for a startup in china to refuse working time if you spend less time to dramatically competitiveness or to be successful you need to be ahead of others says in question a shitty yen and glue say they are happy about the debate they have sparked but they are however careful not to be seen as political activists the tech sector has become a showpiece industry to china's government companies enjoy creative freedoms but the red lines are clear google says he was even surprised when the two lists started asking about politics the first question he asked the. test. i said why this what is this. i don't know. the new generation of chinese programmers and tech workers are carefully figuring out how to talk about their issues without inciting the government suspicion.
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pepsi is the global leader in potato chips it even has peyton's on the potatoes best suited to frying which is why it sued a handful of farmers in india for growing that very variety it wants thousands of dollars from landholders who only own a few acres each and she says the farmers infringed on the company's intellectual property rights using seeds paid for its lays potato chips the farmers are from gerat which has become a hub for growing potatoes for multinationals like k.f.c. mcdonald's empty the state is backing the farmers rights groups say pepsi used private detectives to carry out video recorded sting operations of the farms but the company has now backed down somewhat asking the farmers instead to join the thousands of others it's a collaborative potato farming project that have to agree to the terms and conditions offered by pepsi including potato prices otherwise it's offering settlements to the other landholders provided they refrain from planting the seeds
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used to produce lays well meet up on jobby is managing director x. rated agri solutions and wrote a whole research paper on these issues right and who's wrong in this case. so. yes as you mention or has a disturbed. that they have. for chip making back at the scene and then they have they just read their id and their. act which is also part of the family's veins act so the founders actually have allowed to get all that particular seat back there not to allow the senate as a seat so frankly speaking yes there is and on. but it goes but that the seem to act is not what if they cannot see that the family
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is at wrong by doing something illegal what about this deal or settlement the pepsi is offering the farmers is it any good. so pepsi is essentially saying what is there what they have but it goes back to the family stuff going there. that they work with them so they just essentially these things that you gain are the more the particulars and less you don't sell it to us. you know and the farmers have actually and i think they're saying that and they have asked for more to come back so let's see what the farmers have in mind. but tell me is pepsi really the bad guy here you wrote in your paper on this very subject that the company's been active in punjab since the eighty's and has invested a lot. yes so as not all new technologies not a g.'s have the budget to fall out great it didn't give you this productivity so in
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this basic go has. has worked with farmers well thanks to the company so this stuff like the credit goes to that company and in that sense the founders benefit they're going to have productivity they got to make the places they want to say sing a lot of risk but then if you're lucky in that hands. and the others who are not plugging the company have excluded so and anyway that their voice then it comes to a situation in the family as an. m.n.c. you know who will always be the bad guy so there is a scene of being with us as well yet so the company is adding don't acknowledge easy and adding to productively be it all is that the downside is technology are also leads to a monopoly so the benefits then would be limited to a few farmers where says these benefits of going to a large group of farmers so mita it doesn't sound like this is going to be the last
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time we hear of global corporations what we can grow and sell. najera lee in fact more and more the entire population we need higher productivity have an activity involved they eased the job again on largely by imagine i fell down the knees because they are investing in. so much in research so this is not the last time that you had in about it but i would also say that this is the president the only president is really in india because there are many companies were working with samaras and sam as i have not loyal at all i did i see their profit and the beyond their contract but not the sound most important because they realize that more head in the world would it be an except they have not there the founders think that on the knees to pork so by anything that's imus working there is going to be it's going to continue in the land and. this is really the outcome of this is the
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attempt at this event as to how the border views in n.z. vs the family made it a job thank you very much for being on the show thank you and now to some other business stories from around the world. security officials from british telecoms operators have reportedly held a closed door meeting with a top u.s. cyber security official to discuss the results of we made by our way this comes after vodafone said it had found security back doors and the chinese companies equipment. trade negotiators from the u.s. and china are resume talks to end the tariff war washington wants beijing to roll back industry development plans says a based in part on stolen technology even the new shift in the u.s. treasury secretary says both sides are close to an agreement. and apple's first quarter profits fell sixteen percent. as sales numbers for i phones dropped sharply the american take china expects i phone sales to stabilize in china results from
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services like music streaming work better than expected. the future's bright sounds great from. the c.e.o. of facebook he has many in the tech sector scratching their heads the annual f eight conference the social media giant announced its latest reinvention of itself it's all about privacy an entirely new direction for facebook dogged by privacy scandals the social media company is about to restructure its platform to be more private and protect its customer status i get that a lot of people aren't sure that we're serious about this. i know that we don't exactly have the strongest reputation on privacy right now to put it lightly. but i'm committed to doing this well and just starting a new chapter for our products. now over the last few years facebook has been in
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the midst of a number of privacy scandals customers passwords and email contacts were on encrypted and accessible to employees millions of accounts were hacked to be more protective of data seems like a step in the right direction but some are questioning how it will work or clearly if businesses and facebook has less access to information about people because they're communicating in a private environment that makes it harder to deliver targeted advertising and that's what facebook's business is built upon so there's questions i had i don't know that they're all the answers are going to be. apparent and the in the near future of their most personal of course facebook will still have access to lots of valuable made our data to sell to advertisers other potential moneymakers are being developed including new versions of the oculus virtual reality goggles and an improved online payment app by.
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something. could. come out. more than just earning a living work promotes integration. workers are active independent and take part in society. but how do foreigners or people with disabilities join the workforce. we ask now. learn about the difficulties opportunities and successes made in germany than thirty minutes on d w. birth. home two moons of species. a home
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staffing recipes for success strategy that make a difference. baking bread on d.w. . visited over the years life from ballet the mayberry. clashes in the streets of paris police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators as trade unionists and yellow vests protest rally against present economic policies will bring you the latest from the french capital also on the program. of course in the u.k.
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sentences wiki leaks founder julian assange fifty eight weeks in prison for preaching battle conditions in twenty twelve when he sort of silent in the produce .