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...Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher (Simon & Schuster)The tech industry said it wanted to change the world....
...A Chinese company called BKS Tradeline was showcasing a vape pipe elegantly finished in wood. The rep told me the company was “moving away from generic disposable products....
...even a price to the biodiversity, in exchange for an extractive industry to offset its devastation.”...
...Hubristic CEOs also exist in all spheres of life: this book’s examples range from the failures of the CEO of Swedish football club Halmstads BK to the way US carmaker General Motors missed the electric car...
...The champagne industry’s flagship has undergone an impressive makeover....
...Your Big Mac, your BK Flamer or indeed your KFC, Taco Bell or Subway are actually designed to be the way they are from the constant feedback of millions....
...AB With respect to jobs, we take great pride in the fact that since 3G acquired Burger King in 2010, the BK system has created over 105,000 jobs around the world by increasing net restaurant count by over...
...Don Butler, head of Ford’s connected car initiative, is also wary of becoming dependent on Apple and Google, which have their own designs on the auto industry....
...BK Goenka, chairman of Welspun Group, a textile and pipe manufacturer with revenues of about $3bn a year, agreed that Brexit would open new opportunities....
...Yoga guru BKS Iyengar passed away last week. As the tributes poured in, Iyengar was credited with spreading awareness of Indian culture around the world....
...It’s a shock-and-awe approach that has worked in the past with other emerging markets’ central banks, trying to defend their currency and shake short-term speculators out of markets,” said Kathy Lien of BK...
...Matt Powell, an analyst at SportsOneSource, estimates that the US fitness and yoga apparel industry was worth $500m in 2013, up from $350m in 2010....
...BK Yoon, co-chief executive of Samsung Electronics, in January unveiled a “glimpse into the home of the future” at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, promising that customers could soon take phone...
...“I believe that the home of the future has to protect, be flexible and be responsive,” said BK Yoon, president and chief executive of Samsung Electronics....
...Elias Diaz Sese, president of BK AsiaPac Ptd Ltd, said Burger King chose Everstone, founded in 2006 by two Indian veterans of Goldman Sachs, as its partner because of its “history, business acumen, and command...
...A surprising fact about China’s creative industries is the extent of private initiatives. Those fashion stores are all private....
...Earlier this month, Fibra Uno, a real-estate investment trust, announced the acquisition of a Hilton Hotel in Mexico City’s downtown area, while Vertex Real Estate and BK Partners snapped up a Four Seasons...
...“The US market is becoming more attractive from the growth and yield perspectives compared with overseas markets,” says Kathy Lien, managing director at BK Asset Management....
...Roper Industries lost 3.8 per cent to $118.68 after the industrial technology company said its sales fell short of market expectations....
...Affinity Equity Partners, a regional investment company; BK, a Seoul-based private equity group; and Carlyle all submitted bids....
...A company executive who asked not to be named also complained that “the industries which are working in that area do not have access to any security cover”....
...Burger King, meanwhile, has been selling its “BK fire-grilled ribs” meals for $8.99 in the US for the past three months....
...BK, TCBI, ZION, NTRS, WFC, BBT, EWBC, RF and PNC all witnessed increases of 20% to 50%....
...Compounding this, analysts say Burger King’s restaurants are among the oldest in the US fast-food industry....
...and mortals” from China, Korea, India, Taiwan and Singapore: CHINA: China Life Insurance – Titan China Overseas Land & Invest – Titan China Shenhua Energy – Titan Hengan Intl Group – Titan Ind & Comm Bk...
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