Like Google, Apple and other hi-tech multinationals, eBay routes income from customers in many of its largest markets, including the UK, through a European sales hub located in a tax-friendly country.
The Scottish transport operator FirstGroup has been accused by Canada's government of acting like a "bullying multinational" by slashing rural routes on its Greyhound Canada bus network, in a cost-cutting move that risks leaving far-flung towns bereft of regular links to the rest of the country.
This moral is as clear--and well-established--as the recorded history of the lingua franca phenomenon, a story as old as international trade routes and multinational empires.
But can a focus on bio-generics and contracting for multinationals be used as a route for competence building and as a stepping stone to become original innovators?
On Friday, a multinational consortium announced in Moscow that it would route a $17 billion, 3,035-mile natural gas pipeline around North Korea.
The fueling service of BP's Castrol division offers GAM to key multinational customers in the transportation industries for obvious reasons: Because international routes and their activity on those routes are constantly changing, global coordination is essential to ensure that their planes and ships don't run dry.
The government-funded Israel Innovation Authority is taking one route by redirecting its support away from multinationals seeking to purchase local startups, and aiming instead at Israeli companies on the brink of maturity.
Elliot Leeds (Jack Noseworthy) is the Bill Gates-like leader of Paradigm, a software multinational, who dies when his private plane crashes into the South Pacific en route to a Group of 8 meeting in Japan.
Officers from at least six countries will be present, a simple indicator of the coordinated, multinational nature of the criminal gangs that control the increasingly popular – and arguably increasingly risky – route.
The internet multinational has developed a driverless car with a top speed of 25mph, two seats, and a screen displaying its route.
