By Nicol Turner-LeePhotography by Mark Williams-Hoelscher The road to Garrett County, Maryland Thick snow flurries fell on the night that my colleague Mark Hoelscher, then Brookings’s resident photographer, and I left Washington, D.C., driving northwest on Interstate 270 toward Garrett County, Maryland. The trip, which is normally three hours, took five given the blinding and […]
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German Telecom Company Chooses Huawei To Start 5G Network Project
December 12, 20193:22 PM ET VANESSA ROMOTwitter ROB SCHMITZTwitter The German deal with Huawei has not been finalized. It is contingent on the technology and companies passing a security certification according to German law.Mark Schiefelbein/AP German network provider Telefonica Deutschland has chosen Huawei to help build its next generation 5G network, ignoring pleas from the […]
France passes law taxing digital giants in defiance of US anger
July 12, 2019 (2 days ago) 5:54 am By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, PARIS, Jul 12 – France’s parliament on Thursday passed a law making it the first major economy to impose a tax on digital giants, defying a probe ordered by an angry US President Donald Trump that could trigger reprisal tariffs. The new law aims at plugging […]