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...Separately, Carlyle has hired Mark Blaufuss as an operating executive consultant for the industrial and transportation team....
...Masayoshi Son, SoftBank’s chief executive, recently boasted that “our group holds the world’s largest transportation system”, and that it wanted to be “the ‘platformer’ for the broader transportation system...
...In the spring of 2013, Jobs’s successor as CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Cook, decided the company needed to borrow $17 billion. Yes, borrow....
...Today, despite a series of controversies, Ponce still owns much of the business through a cascading series of holding companies, and is listed on the Forbes rich list with an estimated net worth of $1.4bn...
...The three have begun to dominate economic life in China with amazing speed, doing everything from retail to finance to transportation, and moving into healthcare and even agriculture....
...As Silicon Valley aggregates many other types of data related to health, education, transportation, energy, the range of such free services will expand dramatically....
...“Rule of law is an important aspect of doing business here, but courts can take years,” he said, adding “don’t depend on relationships alone; do research because guanxi [relationships ] are not enough.”...
...US airlines United Continental Holdings and Southwest stumbled on Thursday as earnings season continued its brisk pace and equity markets declined....
...He says the Dreamliner will provide Virgin with some “modest growth opportunities”, adding the airline is interested in doing more flying to the US and Asia, as well as entering the Latin American market...
...“It seems as if Sycamore is doing at the local level what the Cayman Islands does at the federal level,” Mr Imus said....
...In the financial services sector, Italy introduced a law forbidding bank and insurance company directors from also holding board seats at rival companies as the government attempted to unravel the web of...
...Charles Clowdis, managing director for transportation for IHS Global Insight, the data provider, says the new aircraft are doing “good things and bad things”....
...But to maximize this position as the world’s entrepot, Turkey has to invest even more heavily in infrastructure than it is doing today....
...“I really believe strongly in getting out there and talking to as many of our employees and customers as I can, and then using that as a form of stimulation to say: ‘What are we doing right?’...
...But while companies are having a tough time making money in the US and western Europe, doing business in emerging markets has been getting easier....
...Business spending on transportation equipment continued to fall from already low levels, and demand both for high-tech equipment and software and for equipment other than high-tech and transportation dropped...
...“Brand and reputation are everything in this sector – without them, you do not have a business,” says Paul Timlett, of the risk management transportation practice at Marsh....
...Renault, which is developing electric cars, has confirmed holding discussions with Mr Agassi....
...For the most part, the electronic flows of funds were doing fine. But with civilian air traffic shut down, the transportation and clearing of good old-fashioned checks were being delayed....
...Investment banks were not the only ones doing brisk business....
...The railroads refused to see themselves as transportation companies; instead of investing in airlines they tried to stamp them out, Turner said, adding: "Of course, the way things are working out for the...
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