Microsoft: Riding On Geopolitics To Extend Its AI Footprint
April 19th, 2024
Via Fast Company, commentary on Microsoft’s recent $1.5B investment in the UAE’s G42: Microsoft’s recently announced deal to acquire a $1.5 billion share of United Arab Emirates-based AI company G42 is the culmination of months of coordination and negotiation among the companies and their respective governments. G42 will now begin getting computing power from Microsoft’s Azure data […]
Read more »Namibia: Establishing Incentives for Mining Investment
April 18th, 2024
Via Energy, Capital & Power, an article on Namibia’s incentives for mining investment: As Namibia’s leading economic sector, the mining industry has benefited from a competitive investment climate, which includes a recently amended VAT Act and the ability for operators to recoup their expenditures. The Chamber of Mines of Namibia is responsible for the stewardship of mining and exploration […]
Read more »Bangladesh’s Touted “Cyber Capital”: Now a Ghost Town
April 18th, 2024
Via Rest of World, a look at a Bangladesh tech park built for 100,000 workers which is now a ghost town: Bangladesh launched its first tech park on the outskirts of Dhaka in 2015. But nearly 10 years later, most of the facility remains unused. Several companies that had committed to setting up offices and […]
Read more »Zain: The Remarkable Story of a Small Kuwaiti Telecoms Firm that Became a Global Giant
April 16th, 2024
Via Emerging World, a review of a book on a sleepy Kuwaiti telecoms firm which surged to prominence on the back of visionary leadership and a string of acquisitions, most notably a big bet on Africa from 2003-2009: “History will be be kind to me,” the late Winston Churchill once famously said, “because I intend […]
Read more »China To Push BRI During Visits to Indonesia, Cambodia, and Papua New Guinea
April 16th, 2024
Via South China Morning Post, an article on China’s top diplomat Wang Yi’s plans to push belt and road during visits to Indonesia, Cambodia and Papua New Guinea: Foreign Minister Wang Yi will travel to the three countries this week as Beijing steps up diplomacy with Southeast Asia amid US rivalry China is a top […]
Read more »Spirit of the Desert: Whisky and Water In Rajashtan, India
April 16th, 2024
Via Aquatech, an interesting look at how Diageo is working with the local community to improve water security in the region of its Alwar distillery, which is based in an arid region of northeast India: Reducing water waste in a whiskey distillery Diageo’s whiskey distillery in Alwar was the first to spirit distillery in Asia […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.