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...The decree consists of three parts. First, breaking up AT&T into seven regional Bell systems....
...Upon announcing a split into three separate companies in June, the Michigan-based food group Kellogg said it would place the headquarters of the biggest one in Chicago....
...In the US, Hulu continues to operate as a separate service to Disney and is the home to edgier programming, such as R-rated films....
...Microsoft’s dominance in the PC era, like Apple’s leadership in smartphones, owed more to successfully repackaging technologies invented elsewhere than in conducting advanced R&D....
...“I would extend that another three years,” he said. “So that is now 15 years at $100,000 a month, which is an $18mn total.”...
...At least three-quarters of those voting must approve the transaction in order for it to proceed....
...Three-quarters of the shareholders voting must approve the scheme for it to proceed....
...CD&R’s 285 pence per share bid has already been recommended by Morrisons’ board. The approval of three-quarters of shareholders is still required. A vote is due on October 19....
...Three-quarters of shareholders voting at a special meeting must assent to the transaction, which then becomes binding on all investors....
...The health department said that mobile network operators, including Vodafone, Three, EE and O2, Sky and Virgin, had agreed that “in-app activity” would not come out of customers’ data allowance....
...Likewise, the recovery in the last three weeks is largely due to relief that the hit might not be as bad as feared (e.g....
...In another sign of the spending surge, Alphabet reported a 40 per cent jump in R&D costs in the final quarter, to $6bn....
...The pact includes the acquisition of six processing plants and one research and development facility in the US, and eight plants and three R&D centres in China, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and Australia...
...Meanwhile, R&D spending lags behind that of Asia and the US....
...We’ve never seen a president try and reverse the actions of three past presidents.”...
...It has seen same-store sales — a closely watched measure of sales in stores that have been open at least 12 months — fall for three consecutive quarters....
...Facebook v YouTube: contrasting approaches The music business has been intermittently at odds with technology platforms for decades, since digital piracy ravaged the sector’s traditional business model....
...As private equity groups grow comfortable with club deals again, some are even predicting further bids from three or more groups in the next year....
...The three buyers that leveraged it are now expected to have their equity stakes wiped out in the restructuring....
...Others end, to borrow a song from Ms Whitman’s favourite musical genre, in “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”. The Lex team is interested in hearing more from readers. Has Meg Whitman finished her work at HPE?...
...China Inc buys into Brazil Electricity $12.3bn State Grid Corp of China’s two deals to buy a controlling stake in electricity network CPFL Energia Energy $7.1bn Value of Sinopec’s deal to buy 40 per...
...Letter in response to this article: What is it that keeps consumers using Google / From R Shyam Khemani, Washington, DC, US...
...Last year, a federal judge in San Francisco sentenced Salman to three years in prison and fined him more than $738,000....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...Textron shares climbed as much as 4.9 per cent before closing 3.79 per cent higher at $38.58 in New York as the three main US equity indices made modest gains....
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