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Germany Inc. Sits on $500 Billion in Cash Amid Weak Outlook The country’s nonfinancial businesses have piled up around $500 billion in cash and deposits
Germany Inc. Sits on $500 Billion in Cash Amid Weak Outlook - WSJ
Apple's enormous cash hoard grew to $237.6 billion in the fiscal fourth quarter, up $6.1 billion from the previous quarter. If the company's massive cash pile was its own company, it would be the seventh largest in the S&P 500 and the fourteenth largest public company in the world.
Apple's cash hoard swells to $237.6 billion, a record
"Professionally, I’ve never really made any mistakes," Baba said in an interview, sitting next to a life-size R2-D2 and a soccer jersey signed by Japan midfielder Keisuke Honda. "No matter how small a matter, I’ve always delivered something decent regardless of the deadline or the circumstances. But that’s probably a given for anyone who has made it to my position." Baba says virtual reality's most significant feature is its ability to trick users into thinking others are physically present. That will soon let humans communicate in a way that approximates face-to-face conversations.
Japan Billionaire Who Can Do No Wrong Sets Sights on VR - Bloomberg
A war-torn state and a country ruled by an oppressive military junta for decades are home to the world's most generous people, research suggests. People in Iraq are the kindest to strangers, while Myanmar's residents give the most away, according to the CAF World Giving Index 2016. In the last month, eight in 10 Iraqis have helped someone they don't know, with Libyans helping almost as many. During the same period, 91% of those in Myanmar have given money to charity. In comparison, 63% of Americans - the second most generous overall - have donated money, with 73% helping a stranger.
Which country is the most generous in the world? - BBC News
That this is football's apogee is not seriously in dispute by anyone with an anima. Yet it might legitimately be argued that this also represents the apex of all sport and, if you're feeling particularly grandiloquent, all art. Group art, at least, for it is difficult to imagine a collective exhibition of greatness to match Brazil's fourth and final goal in the 1970 World Cup final. If Blur had performed with such effulgence at Glastonbury, you'd still be drooling over your commemorative 128-page Guardian pullout and honing a story which proves that you, along with the other seven million, really were there. The signature flourishes have set up camp in the mind's eye. Jairzinho goading Giacinto Facchetti with the coiled menace of a nightclub bully asking someone what they're looking at; Pelé deliberately, tenderly delaying his pass, like a skilled lover teasing and teasing and teasing some more before pushing the exact button you wanted, and another that you didn't even know you had; Carlos Alberto - the bloody right-back - both feet miles off the ground, smashing a shot at the speed of light past Enrico Albertosi. Beauty is power, of course, but power has never been as beautiful as it was in the moments after the ball whistled off Alberto's boot. Yet there is sometimes a tendency to forget that Clodoaldo – not so much the fifth Beatle as the sixth Brazilian (everyone can name the other five members of their offensive sextet) – beat four Italian players, one of them without even touching the ball, at the start of the move.
The Joy of Six: Great team goals | Rob Smyth | Sport | The Guardian