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private but how will it make money if we stop sharing details of our lives. i mean for let's do business it's labor day workers joining rallies around the world they want better deals in their sick does or a better government in many cases in the philippines thousands of workers and activists mots 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 different in other parts of the world like cambodia where gambon made his stage to run the cheerful parade the first in years with officials lifting a ban on may day notches the demonstrators called for gender equality and protection of rights are also blessed by months as you can see that. when china a young entrepreneur has
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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. they mention 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 you know that if you take the always the rhetoric right the saying ok fitri we know you guys want to be a force you want to force your employer all the work that no one thought up the tech industry before together yen and goo have written a piece of text that programmers can use in license agreements it says that any
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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 it time passing by for startup companies or ever there are less romantic questions to consider eating is working for a venture capital firm that invests in startups which are that it is very difficult for a startup in china to refuse working time if you spend less time to dramatically improve your competitiveness or to be successful you need to be ahead of others question
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a shitty yen and qusay 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 a journalist started asking about politics the first question he asked me. a leftist i i said why this what is this. i don't know nothing about. the new generation of chinese programmers and tech workers are carefully figuring out how to talk about their issues without inciting the government suspicion. 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
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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 pepsi 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 am papacy 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 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 used to produce lays well meat of punjab he is managing director activated agri solutions and wrote
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a whole research paper on this right and who's wrong in this case. so. yes as you mention all hazard just their id that they have. for chip making back at the scene and then they have they just read that id and there's the. act which is also part of the family's veins act so. actually i'm 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. and it but it goes but that's the scene that. is not the day so we cannot see that the families are wrong. what about this deal or settlement the pepsi is offering the farmers is it any good. so pepsi is essentially saying what is
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there what they have but it goes back to the farmers stop growing their oil that they work with them so they just essentially these things that you get are the more the potatoes and less you don't sell it to us. you know and the farmers have actually not excepted 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 technologies have the budget to fall out great it didn't give you this productivity so in this basic go has. has worked with farmers well thanks to the company so this stuff like the credit goes to their company and in that sense the founders benefit they're
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going to have productivity they got to make the places they want to say sing a lot of risk but if you're looking that hanslick. and by the who and i'm flipping the company at excluded so and anyway that the boy then i think i'm still a situation between the family as. i put it and then see you know who will always be the bad guy so there's a scene of the even worse is when we are still buying and the company is adding don't acknowledge easy and adding to productivity it all is that there downside is technology has also leads to monopoly so the benefits then would be limited to fewer farmers worse is these benefits of going to a large group of farmers so mita it doesn't sound like this is going to be the last time we hear of global corporations what we can grow and sell. najera lee in fact more and more the entire population we need to have productivity have an
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activity done something involved they eased the job again on largely by imagine that the knees because they are investing in. so much in research so this is not the last name they're going to be getting 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 summers and summers are not loyal at i did i see their profit and they what they are and their contract but not the sound most important because they realize that more head in the world would be an example they're not there the founders state that and the needs to port so by the farmers working there is going to be it's going to go and you know in the longer and. this is really the outcome of this case will say that this is the end as to how the world of use an m.n.c. versus a family made up a job thank you very much for being on the show thank you. now to some other
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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 risks of we made by our way this comes after vodafone said it had found security back doors in the chinese companies equipment. trade negotiators from the u.s. and china resume talks to end the tariff war washington wants 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 time expects i phone sales to stabilize in china results from services like music streaming work better than expected. the future's bright sounds great from mark zuckerberg the c.e.o.
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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 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 the midst of a number of privacy scandals customers passwords and email contacts were on encrypted as an accessible to employees millions of accounts were hacked to be more
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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 ahead 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 of 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.
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heritage three sixty to see. how is the view of the well. where i come from the over that good does this go it just like this chinese food doesn't matter where i am suppose this reminds me of kofi after decades of living in germany china's food is one of the things i miss the most but that taking a step back i see things i need to have different terminologies many of fluid suppressed as an articulation that exists the other part of the law i haven't been at the men that are in china that's me but i'm not a child of people wondering if their foot is safe to move but if i have a ride to another poster that. this is. how i feel and that's why i left my job because i tried to do it exactly. my name.
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and. this is the w.'s line from may day clashes on the streets of paris police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators as trade unionists and protesters the president's economic policies will bring you the latest from the french capital also on the program. supporters of venezuela's opposition leader. returned to the streets in the latest push to present. the fear is that demonstrations may turn violent as
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they did on tuesday. on the court.