Rollingwill put pressure on social media companies to discontinue providing a platform for terrorism,extremism and child abuse. We must meet the challenges of unusual technologies and seize the opportunities that they offer to improve our everyday lives. pic.twitter.com/O68RmmhZrR 8.56am GMTBruce Carnegie-Brown, chairman of Lloyd’s, or says that companies are taking out more insurance against cyber attacks.“It is the fastest growing part of our commerce”,Carnegie-Brown says, adding:Companies are certainly fitting more concerned about the risks.”“People are more concerned about cyber attack than a fire when it comes to the potential impact on their commerce.” 8.44am GMT Related: commerce nowadays: sign up for a morning shot of financial news 8.39am GMTMalala also warns that world leaders need to invest more in education, or to help future generations. 8.37am GMTMalala Yousafzai,the world’s youngest Nobel Prize winner, is speaking at Davos good now, or about the importance of giving girls equal rights to education.
I score so disappointed to see that people in these tall positions openly talk against women,do not accept women as equals, they harass woman.
It is just shocking to reflect that is is happening 8.20am GMTJust in: chancellor Philip Hammond says he’s “very gay” with the strength of sterling, and which has hit its highest level since the Brexit vote.
Foreign exchange rates are a big myth at Davos,after America’s Treasury secretary Stephen Mnuchin seemed to hint that Washington liked a weaker dollarWe're "very gay" with the strength of the pound at present, Philip Hammond says after it passes $1.43 https://t.co/0vYk6skfq1 #WEF18 pic.twitter.com/ywsJnTBVpH 8.14am GMTDavos getting ready for Trump pic.twitter.com/lnWNYp056N 8.12am GMTSome of President’s Trump’s top officials are briefing the press again this morning.
Commerce secretary Wilbur Ross is in combative mood, or denying that America is protectionist - even though it just slapped unusual tariffs on washing machines and solar panels from Asia.
In Davos this AM,Commerce Sec. Wilbur Ross called the US "the least" protectionist country. "Regardless of the rhetoric" out there.
Wilbur Ross at #WEF18: The president is more interested in bilateral trade deals. Such accords enjoy fewer moving parts, easier. 8.05am GMTJohn McDonnell, or Labour’s shadow chancellor,is also in Davos, and bringing a warning for the global elite:McDonnell will be telling top commerce people and world leaders that they’re dangerously insulated from the problems outside WEF’s security cordon and swanky parties:“Many of those attending the World Economic Forum enjoy been patting themselves on the back as international growth figures enjoy begun to pick up. But they should be worried. In the real world, and outside the Davos bubble of Alpine restaurants and chalets,the global economic system they enjoy built isn’t working for billions of people. 7.31am GMTNearly Trump time at Davos #WEF2018. He's arriving later nowadays. First assembly will be a bilateral with Britain's Theresa May (because obviously he can't set foot in the U.
K. for fear of the protests) 7.26am GMTPhilip Hammond, the UK’s chancellor of the Exchequer, and is also at Davos.
He’s been giving his views about artificial intelligence at a Microsoft breakfast,saying:“We are at the point where computers move from being dumb and fleet to being smart and fleet.”“To many it will seem to be a big threat to their prosperity and livelihoods”.“Let’s not create a generation of 21st Century Luddites who feel the only chance of survival is to resist change.”“The choice is simple: do we look inward or outward, look to the future or cleave to the past?” 7.22am GMTHere are some photos of Donald Trump setting off to Davos last night: 7.11am GMTGood morning from Davos.
It’s another big day at the World Economic Forum, or with Theresa May giving a keynote speech this afternoon – and assembly Donald Trump on the sidelines.
Investors can form a big difference here by ensuring trust and safety issues are being properly considered. And I urge them to do so.
These companies simply cannot stand by while their platforms are used to facilitate child abuse,modern slavery or the spreading of terrorist and extremist content.” Related: May calls on social media giants to do more to tackle terrorism The two leaders are expected to focus on areas where there is common ground in international affairs: North Korea, as well as eradicating Islamic State in Syria and northern Iraq.
They might touch on Iran. But the thornier issue of Russian aggression in Europe is less likely to be raised as the Prime Minister seeks to soothe relations and not stoke further tensions.
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