Bloomberg BusinessWeek, June 13, 2016

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(1) Daniela Wei, You Have an Important Call: It's Your Croupier.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... ey-laundering-risks

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: To slow money laundry, Macau tries banning phone betting

(b) croupier
(i) croupier (n): " 'one who clears the winnings from the table in gambling,' 1731, from French croupier (17c.), originally one who rides behind another, on the croup or 'rump' of a horse (a word of Germanic origin); hence extended to any one who backs up another; a 'second.' "
www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=croupier&allowed_in_frame=0
(ii) croupier (n): "an employee of a gambling casino who collects and pays bets and assists at the gaming tables"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Croupier
(iii) The Wiki page for Baccarat does not mention "croupier," but the one for roulette mentions the term numerous times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roulette
(iv) Her is the job description:

job profile -- Croupier: "Croupiers run the games in a casino by throwing dice, spinning the roulette wheel and dealing cards. As a croupier, you will explain the rules of the game to the players at the table, and make sure the rules are followed"
National Careers Service, undated.
https://nationalcareersservice.d ... Pages/Croupier.aspx


(2) Dune Lawrence with Lulu Chen, The People's Republic of WeChat; My full (and mostly successful) immersion in China's everything app.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... -republic-of-wechat

Note: The summary in Table of contents: A Conversion in China[;] Our reporter sees the way of 760 million WeChat devotees

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(3) The two-week issue is dedicated to "Global Technology" (cover story).
(I) Max Chafkin and Ian King, How Intel Makes a Chip; The development of a microprocessor is one of the riskiest, costliest, and most technically complex feats in business.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... -intel-makes-a-chip

My comment:
(a) Hillsboro, Oregon is about 17-mile air distance west of Portland, Oregon.
(b) In print but not online is a graphic of a 12-inch wafer, with the following explanations:
* This 12" wafer will be chopped up into 122 Xeron E5 chips. They sell for as much as $4,115 apiece.
* Each E5 has as many as 7.2 billion transitors. The chip in the original IBM PC ha 29,000.
* Just building a factory capable of making these wafers costs at least $8.5 billion.
* Making an E5 involves some 2,000 steps of etching and depositing materials, sometimes in layers as thin as a single atom.
* It takes about three months to manufacture a single E5 chip.

(II) Sam Grobart, Benz vs Bimmer; Two carmakers have been trying to out-invest each other for more than a century.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... nventing-each-other

(III) Bob Parks, The Courage of His Conviction. Herbert Williams got rich by inventing an undersea turbine. You';; never guess where he came up with he idea.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... g-underwater-energy

Note:  The summary in Table of contents: Prison Epiphany[;] The ocean turbines Herb Williams imagined in jail are big business now