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...Mr Johnson on Sunday said the biosecurity centre would grade the coronavirus threat level from one to five, based on the transmission rate — known as “R” — and the number of new cases....
...“I really hope Jan [Marsalek] will be delivering,” Susanne Steidl, the chief product officer overseeing Wirecard’s business outside Asia, told a confidant, adding that the operations she was responsible...
...By the end of 2018 the company had shed a further 1,300, many of whom were helped to find new jobs, after it restructured its R&D operation....
...philip.stephens@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Welcome to the realities of playing by others’ rules / From T R Murphy, Bethesda, MD, US...
...Years of under-investment in R&D left what Ms Whitman calls a “tech deficit”. “These things take time. We’re working through that tech debt,” she says. “You never fully make it up.”...
...Douglas Hurd, the then foreign secretary, ordered an inquiry....
...Calling HP “a fantastic engineering culture”, she said: “The best payback I can see here is to put money into R&D.” That would lead to the budget being increased “pretty substantially”....
...But there are still questions over where Oracle goes next in terms of R&D and acquisitions in the Hurd-hardware era, ZDNet’s Irregular Enterprise notes....
...But both Syria and Colombia are small deals,” says David Hurd, oil and gas analyst at Deutsche Bank in Beijing....
...“If you benchmark them right next to Dell the answer is no because Dell doesn't do the R&D that HP does. Does this move them closer in cost-competitiveness to IBM?...
...We are going to spend a lot of R&D on it and we are going to get more aggressive.” Its cut-throat pricing policy is already causing distress to some competitors....
...At the same time, he is keen to retain R&D spending, particularly pure research, which he believes many other technology companies neglect....
...IN SEARCH OF MEMORY: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R....
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