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2 days ago | 
facilitiesdive.com | Ramona Dzinkowski
As American companies look to meet data center demands driven by the increased use of artificial intelligence, Alberta, Canada, has something that might help: gas, water and cold weather. “We have a lot of power generating capabilities,” Akolisa Ufodike, a professor at York University’s Center for Administrative Studies and Alberta's former Deputy Minister of Trade, said in an interview.
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3 days ago | 
facilitiesdive.com | Ramona Dzinkowski
As American companies look to meet data center demands driven by the increased use of artificial intelligence, Alberta, Canada, has something that might help: gas, water and cold weather. “We have a lot of power generating capabilities,” Alberta Deputy Minister of Culture and Immigration Akolisa Ufodike said in an interview.
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1 month ago | 
gfmag.com | Ramona Dzinkowski
Global Finance: What are some of the most pressing geostrategic risk factors that companies should be concerned about in the next few months? Oliver Jones: I think I would start by saying that many of the issues that are affecting companies are global in nature. So the way that I often see it is to understand the trends that underpin both the risks and the opportunities across multiple regions. If you look at the outlook for 2025, we identify three really big themes.
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1 month ago | 
gfmag.com | Ramona Dzinkowski
Geopolitical pressures are reshaping global economic and financial activity leading to what is commonly called a “fractured” global economy. Among other things, a fractured economy is characterized by increased trade barriers and tariffs, geopolitical tensions and shifts to specific trading blocks (like US vs China), changing investment patterns, and supply chain disruptions.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
legaldive.com | Ramona Dzinkowski
It’s a good bet the Department of Justice under President Trump won’t care about policing artificial intelligence as much as the Biden administration, but in-house counsel must still ensure they have controls around their company’s AI use because other governments are keeping AI in their sights.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
gfmag.com | Ramona Dzinkowski
For years, alternative financing models have been changing the way companies access cash. Now, fintech is offering innovations, from subscription and fee-based online lending marketplaces to blockchain, that are changing the alternative financing landscape itself. That, in turn, is altering the competitive balance as traditional banks go head-to-head with financiers to provide CFOs with better terms and greater flexibility for managing working capital.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
gfmag.com | Ramona Dzinkowski
Recent attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden are forcing marine cargo carriers to avoid these shipping lanes and instead sail all the way around the Cape of Good Hope. But the spillover from Israel’s war in Gaza is causing havoc around the world, not just for shipping companies but for the entirety of global trade, resulting in port congestion, delays in goods reaching their final destinations and soaring shipping costs.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
smartcitiesdive.com | Ramona Dzinkowski
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Uber slammed Toronto lawmakers last year when they side-stepped their own rules to limit ride-hailing licenses to 52,000 in what the company called a discriminatory and bad-faith effort to kneecap its business model. “The City chose to ignore its own procedures and adopted the License Cap by ambush, without notice to Uber, other stakeholders or the public,” the company said in its Dec.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
legaldive.com | Ramona Dzinkowski
Uber slammed Toronto lawmakers last year when they side-stepped their own rules to limit ride-hailing licenses to 52,000 in what the company called a discriminatory and bad-faith effort to kneecap its business model. “The City chose to ignore its own procedures and adopted the License Cap by ambush, without notice to Uber, other stakeholders or the public,” the company said in its December 4 lawsuit against the city.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
legaldive.com | Ramona Dzinkowski
Pay transparency laws are raising tough issues for in-house counsel as they try to balance compliance with the Biden administration’s stepped-up focus on antitrust concerns in the labor market. “The antitrust law hasn't changed, but there’s obviously wage transparency laws that are changing,” says Joe Miller, co-chair of the antitrust practice at Mintz and a former trial attorney in the competition bureau at the Federal Trade Commission, among other roles.
