Switzerland has officially unveiled the world’s steepest cable car, a remarkable engineering feat nestled within the stunning Bernese Alps. With an astounding gradient of 159.4%, the new cableway connects Stechelberg village on the valley floor to the mountain village of Mürren. The newly unveiled marvel is part of the ambitious Schilthornbahn 20XX project, aimed at...
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Direxion launches new leveraged ETFs tied to Palantir, Berkshire Hathaway
(Reuters) – Direxion said on Wednesday that it has launched new leveraged and inverse exchange-traded funds tied to two stocks, Palantir Technologies and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway that offer traders a chance to get twice the daily upside movement of each stock or capture the inverse of a daily decline. Analysts described the launches as...
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Palantir shares rally to fresh record on plans for move to Nasdaq
(Reuters) – Shares in Palantir Technologies Inc were up more than 6% on Friday, hitting a record high, after it announced late on Thursday that it would list on the Nasdaq and expects eligibility to join the Nasdaq 100 index. The data analytics software company said it would switch its stock listing from the New...
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Swiss university set to restrict applications from Chinese students
It is one of the world’s most prestigious universities, training the top engineers and scientists of the future. But a recent move by Switzerland’s ETH Zurich (Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) to restrict admission of students from countries including China has been heavily criticised, with one Chinese scientist who spent years working in the country...
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Switzerland Regulatory Technology Business Report 2024: Market to Surpass $550 Million by 2029, Driven by Collaborative Opportunities and Data Privacy Solutions
Company Logo Swiss RegTech Market Swiss RegTech Market Dublin, Oct. 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The “Switzerland RegTech Business and Investment Opportunities Databook – 50+ KPIs on RegTech Market Size, By Industry, By Technology, By Type of Product, By Deployment, By Product Offering, Market Share – Q3 2024 Update” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s...
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Swiss Army Documents Go Digital Through Mobile App
Swiss Army members can now access important documents and submit leave requests through the mobile app DIM Wallet. With DIM Wallet, army personnel can receive marching orders and leave passes even without an internet connection, reducing the need to print paper documents and allowing them to obtain what they need without delay. Military police, security...
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Style Edit: La Prairie’s revolutionary Life Matrix Haute Rejuvenation Cream
It’s really a shift from the more traditional way of doing anti-ageing to something that is more future-oriented. Every client has a different lifestyle, skin conditions, genetic predispositions. I don’t want this old classification just addressing two parameters, oiliness and hydration. It’s really more about the holistic conditions of the skin in terms of health...
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Switzerland Is Getting Squeezed Between China and the US
(Bloomberg) — Back in 2013, several dozen Swiss business representatives traveled to Beijing to attend the signing of a free-trade agreement between Switzerland and China, toasting the success with champagne. Implemented the following year, the FTA was hailed in a PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP report at the time as a landmark accord that “recasts the international trade...
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First suicide pod use ‘soon’ in Switzerland: campaigners
The Sarco suicide pod is expected to be soon used for the first time in Switzerland – Copyright AFP Anatolii STEPANOV Nathalie OLOF-ORS An assisted dying group expects a new portable suicide pod to be used for the first time in Switzerland potentially within months to provide death without medical supervision, they said Wednesday. The...
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Digital deluge: how will Art Basel respond to a surge of digital-art initiatives in Switzerland?
They say you should not judge a person until you have walked a mile in their shoes. A new art fair in Basel—called the Digital Art Mile—is inviting fairgoers to cast off any preconceptions of NFTs and digital art, and to journey through its three venues stretching across (not quite) a mile on Rebgasse. The...