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Davos dilemmas: Black bag confusion
(c) WEF One of the excitements of being a Davos delegate is when you are presented with all your kit at the beginning of the forum, including the distinctive World Economic Forum black shoulder bag....
View ArticleDavos press: what to read this morning
By Lindsay Whipp We launch into day two of the World Economic Forum with a grim backdrop of intensifying violence in Ukraine, a state of emergency in Thailand and no progress in the Syria peace talks...
View ArticleDavos guest post: Syria finally on the agenda
By Jasmine Whitbread, chief executive Save the Children The world has a habit of kicking off while Davis convenes and in past years I’ve been dismayed at the way the formal agenda carried on seemingly...
View ArticleDavos leaders: Rouhani pledges to “normalise” relations with US and Europe
Courtesy of FastFT: Iranian president Hassan Rouhani is giving a high-profile keynote address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday.Read more
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Davos debate focuses on eurozone QE
There is no doubt what the big issue is at the World Economic Forum on Thursday – the European Central Bank decision on quantitative easing. An early panel with a largely-US cast list was supposed to...
View ArticleHarvard vs Cameron: Professors defend encryption
The proposals by David Cameron, the UK prime minister, to criminalise forms of encryption that would block intelligence services from reading messages from terrorist suspects have been criticised in...
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Art world’s shady dealings under scrutiny at Davos
Regulation is needed in the global art market because it is vulnerable to money laundering, tax evasion, trading on inside information and price manipulation, an FT Weekend lunch in Davos was told....
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Salesforce who? Party heralds dawn of new era
If you want to get a sense of where power is shifting in the business world, tracking the Davos parties is a good place to start. A decade ago it was the banking bashes which were the glitziest and...
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Real world intrudes on Davos
(c) WEF Holding the World Economic Forum in a ski resort in the Alps sounds like an eccentric decision. In fact, the choice of Davos as a location for the WEF is very clever. It is such a pain to get...
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Uber and Kodak: ghosts at disruption feast
You cannot book an Uber car in Davos. That is no surprise, given that most World Economic Forum delegates prefer to take their own chauffeured limousines or the WEF’s free shuttle service. More...
View ArticleThose Davos clichés in full
I am often asked what is the “mood” of Davos? I always find this question hard to answer – possibly because it is meaningless. However, after four days in the Congress Centre, or trudging from hotel to...
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