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...But KKR has a reputation as an aggressive cost cutter. That could end up spawning a whole new horror story....
...Amazon’s web services business is highly profitable. The question is about the retail business....
...It will retain its name and be the platform from which Broadcom further builds a broader software business that sells bundles of services to large corporations....
...AT&T over the past decade has tried to move beyond its mobile, broadband and wireline phone businesses to be a serious Hollywood player....
...The two companies have in the past been criticised for their cookie-cutter approach to corporate governance. In this instance they are right to take J&J to task....
...Google faces probe over cookie-cutter sandboxThe UK’s competition watchdog is investigating whether Google’s attempts to tighten privacy controls in its Chrome web browser are also harming smaller online...
...Mr Stephenson made the bet that the company’s utility businesses — wireless and wireline phone and data service — could form a foundation for a media conglomerate....
...In this week's latest episodes: 📺 Google's earnings report noted an increase in YouTube content acquisition costs as it invested in its YouTube TV subscription service, which allows cable-cutters to live-stream...
...For Mr Matzkin, it is not surprising that Google has not figured out how to make money in healthcare because there is no “simple cookie cutter answer”....
...Although most Luckin outlets are designed for takeaways, rather than offering the cookie-cutter lounge experience of Starbucks, this is an expensive business to run....
...That is prompting analysts to take a pizza cutter to forecasts, which in turn makes the shares — which have fallen to 250p from 350p in three years — look toppy....
...Last year the US telecoms company completed its $4.7bn acquisition of Yahoo, a venerable web services group....
...It could become a ‘cookie cutter’ model for other nations to follow and that is why US multinationals are so vocal on it.”...
...Before becoming chief executive, Mr Yoshida, a Sony dropout who left the group in the early 2000s to join an internet services subsidiary, was viewed by investors as the pragmatic cost cutter who would steer...
...He said Vanguard was no longer the “champion cost-cutter”. “Vanguard has brought fees down to a level where it’s really hard to take out an extra basis point or two,” he said....
...Makeblock’s robotics building kits allow customers to create all sorts of machines ranging from a laser cutter to a 3D printer....
...Most “cord cutters” and “cord nevers” — youngsters who have never signed up for traditional pay-TV — regularly watch just two services....
...Disney bought BAMTech, a video technology company, last year so it could build a premier video service of its own. Buying Fox will also give it majority control of the streaming service Hulu....
...The chief executive of streaming service Hulu, Mike Hopkins, is leaving to run Sony Pictures TV....
...In May, it expanded with a new $40-a-month live TV bundle targeting cord cutters....
...Ms Khan says Amazon also has priced goods and services — such as its unlimited two-day Amazon Prime delivery service — below cost....
...But the network behind hits such as Westworld, Silicon Valley and Veep has also targeted cord-cutters with HBO Now, its standalone streaming product....
...All the evidence suggests that they are in many cases ‘cord nevers’ or ‘cord cutters’. How do we get them to find our news?”...
...In a CEO, that would call for a cost-cutter and dealmaker, someone who can turn a habitual money-loser into a sustainable business....
...The idea that he would end his career by delivering Unilever to a bunch of cost-cutters is ludicrous, as anyone who has paid the slightest attention to what he has said and done would have known....
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