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Business Matters: New York group asks Amazon to reconsider campus plan

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New York group asks Amazon to reconsider campus plan

BBC World Service - Business Matters, New York group asks Amazon to reconsider campus plan

New York business and political leaders asked Amazon to give an NY campus another chance

New York business and political leaders have asked Amazon to give an NY campus another chance

A group of New York business, political and community leaders have asked Amazon to reconsider its decision to scrap plans for a new campus in the city. The BBC's Michelle Fleury has the story from New York. 

After that, Iranian users of Apple's IOS mobile operating system have lost access to applications made in Iran, depriving them of the local equivalents of Uber and Deliveroo, as well as banking services. An Iranian tech expert speaks with the BBC's Frey Lindsay. Plus, we'll have a view on the US markets from our regular commentator Chris Low of FTN Financial. 

Janet Yellen was until recently the Chair of the US Federal Reserve. During her tenure, she was not known for her long-windedness. This week, Kai Ryssdal of Marketplace on American Public Media sat down with Mrs. Yellen to get her view on the progress of the American economy since the financial crash.

Pakistan produces 20 million tons of rubbish each year, with abut half of that uncollected. The charity Tearfund is involved in efforts to come up with solutions to this build-up, and their country representative Ashraf Mall joins the programme to describe them.

We travel to the Craft Beer Rising festival in London to find out how the beer industry is evolving. 

Plus we look back at the rest of the week's big business stories with Charlie Wells of The Economist in London, and Melody Hahm of Yahoo Finance in New York.

And throughout the show we’ll be joined from Sydney by Peter Ryan of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

(Photo: A man walks in a street in Long Island City on February 18, 2019 in the Queens borough of New York City. Photo Credit: JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)

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