Understanding Direct Investment: Types, Examples, and Key Insights

Discover what direct investment means, explore its types—vertical, horizontal, and conglomerate—along with key examples to better understand foreign business acquisitions.
consilium.europa

Foreign direct investment: Council and Parliament reached political agreement to improve FDI screening

The Council’s presidency and the European Parliament’s representatives reached today a provisional political agreement on the revision of the foreign direct investment (FDI) screening regulation. The ...
IEEE

AKDC: Ambiguous Kernel Distance Clustering Algorithm for COVID-19 CT Scans Analysis

Abstract: Conventional soft clustering algorithms perform well on linearly distributed features, but their performance degrades on nonlinearly distributed features in high-dimensional space. In this ...
NPR

New limits for rent algorithm that prosecutors say let landlords drive up prices

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...
Wired

Game Theory Explains How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.
Scientific Research Publishing

On Prediction of Stock Return and Volatility Using Clustering Techniques: Taking an Example of Japanese Stock Market ()

Stock returns exhibit nonlinear dynamics and volatility clustering. It is well known that we cannot forecast the movements of stock prices under the condition that market is efficient. In most ...
Scientific American

People Are More Likely to Cheat When They Use AI

Despite what watching the news might suggest, most people are averse to dishonest behavior. Yet studies have shown that when people delegate a task to others, the diffusion of responsibility can make ...
IEEE

Anisotropic-Gaussian-Kernel-Based Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm for Feature Selection

Abstract: Soft clustering algorithms based on fuzzy C-means (FCM) have been extensively applied to complex data analysis. However, existing FCM variants still encounter key limitations: a large number ...
collider

Paul Feig Had to Break His Own Rules to Direct 'Another Simple Favor'

The one-and-only Paul Feig reveals why the follow-up film to 'A Simple Favor' is his first sequel. Mike Ryan lives in New York City with his longtime partner, two cats, and his turtle that, when he ...
WBAL-TV

Do you have simple tax returns? Here's how to get free help

TIME AND MONEY. YES SHE DOES. AND THE IRS ESTIMATES THAT IT CAN COST AN AVERAGE OF $270 TO GET A PROFESSIONAL TO DO YOUR TAX RETURNS. IF YOU FILL OUT THE FORMS YOURSELF, IT CAN TAKE AS LONG AS 13 ...
marktechpost

Unraveling Direct Alignment Algorithms: A Comparative Study on Optimization Strategies for LLM Alignment

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values remains difficult due to unclear goals, weak training signals, and the complexity of human intent. Direct Alignment Algorithms (DAAs) offer a ...