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Sour Patch Kids turns the tables on Halloween trick-or-treating
Dive Brief: Sour Patch Kids candy is helping families celebrate Halloween safely by hosting a reverse trick-or-treating event around the country. The Mondelez-owned brand will deliver special Sour Patch Kids packages on Halloween night in 12 U.S. cities, the company announced. Candy fans can nominate their city starting Oct. 8, […]
Miller Lite turns beer cans into antennas for watching football
Dive Brief: Miller Lite debuted a hybrid digital antenna and beer can to beam live sports into consumers’ homes, according to a company press release. The brand is giving away the device until Oct. 12 via a sweepstakes. Before Sunday night’s football games, the beer brand posted links that mimicked […]
Coors Light turns favorite video chat backgrounds into real vacations
Dive Brief: Coors Light is giving fans a chance to win a vacation to the travel destinations they’ve been using as video chat backgrounds during the pandemic, according to a press release. Entrants must upload a screenshot of themselves in their “ideal video chat background” at coorslight.com/outside to enter a […]
Chancellor ‘turns his back’ on millions excluded from coronavirus support
The Chancellor has turned his back on millions of struggling workers excluded from coronavirus support schemes, despite his pledge that no one would be left behind, an influential group of MPs has said. The Treasury Select Committee, which scrutinises the Chancellor, made a series of recommendations in a recent report […]
Huawei is being swept up in the tide of history as China turns away
In some respects this has been the case for years. Russians do not use Google but Yandex, a search engine headquartered in Moscow where it is subject to Vladimir Putin’s security laws. Likewise Chinese smartphone users have access to an array of censored and monitored versions of Facebook, Twitter and […]
Scale of the discount offered by Woodford fund revealed after American buyer turns a quick profit
The American investment fund that scooped up healthcare stocks from the Woodford Equity Income fund earlier this month has turned a quick profit, highlighting the scale of how cheaply the investments were sold and the problems facing Neil Woodford’s investors. Acacia Research Corporation snapped up £224m worth of biotechnology stocks from the fund in early June […]
Xi Jinping turns 67 with Beijing back on coronavirus alert
The Chinese government has made strides in containing the coronavirus, which infected tens of thousands and killed more than 4,000 people in the country while spreading worldwide. At the same time, Beijing is locked in an increasingly heated diplomatic confrontation with Washington. Nikkei’s bureau chief in China, Tetsushi Takahashi, is […]
UK turns on China over Hong Kong, Huawei and coronavirus
LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson this week wrote that the U.K. would give around 3 million eligible Hong Kong residents a potential “route to citizenship” should China impose a national security law on the former British colony. Citing fears the law will erode the “one country, two systems” principle […]
Trump turns trade dispute into an investment fight as Cold War battle with Beijing heats up
Its main $50bn (£39bn) pension fund, known as the I-Fund, is currently indexed to the MSCI EAFE, which invests in companies from Europe, Australia and Japan. However, it was proposed that the I-Fund would switch to the All Country World Index, which – following the part inclusion of Chinese shares […]