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...Finally, in the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries, the integrated circuit, personal computers, and the internet combined to compress the 10x increase in economic well-being as measured by...
...Hulu, home to shows such as Only Murders in the Building and The Bear, has been in limbo since 2019, when Disney lifted its stake to 67 per cent through its blockbuster acquisition of 21st Century Fox....
...LTA hopes to reinvent the blimp for the 21st century with “zero-emissions” flights....
...In 2018, Roberts offered Rupert Murdoch a higher price for 21st Century Fox than Iger had already made, forcing the Disney chief to raise his bid significantly....
...US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm in December described the achievement of ignition as “one of the most impressive science feats of the 21st century”....
...BlackRock’s move ushered in a 21st century-style gold rush as big-name rival managers such as Ark Investment Management, Fidelity, Invesco, WisdomTree, VanEck, Valkyrie Investments and Bitwise refiled their...
...Here she looks at the qualities that gave Britain the lead in the first Industrial Revolution and asks: can 21st century techies do the same?...
...François Pinault bought the work in 2001 and it now stars in Icônes, a beguiling, ambitious exhibition at his Punta della Dogana gallery in Venice, which sets itself a challenging goal: to posit 20th- and 21st-century...
...Are the laws today sufficient to actually do the things that you believe need to be done, or do we need a rewrite, a 21st-century rewrite?...
...His newest is a 21st-century reinvention of La Bastide de Capelongue – an old-school stalwart just outside Bonnieux, whose Michelin-starred restaurant has been lovingly maintained (now called La Bastide)...
...To meet the demands of the 21st century, our international financial architecture requires urgent renovation. The cornerstone of the architecture is paradoxically the piece that is now missing....
...It acquired a 6 per cent stake in DraftKings, a fantasy sports and betting group, when it bought 21st Century Fox in 2019....
...And yet, even in the 21st century, one job is still done by hand. “In over 100 years, no machine has ever learnt how to properly split slate,” he says, picking up a piece and placing it before him....
...Zecha’s latest version of a 21st century ryokan is, as with all his properties, essentially a training in attentiveness, and the art of slowing down....
...Now, its neoclassical facade hides a 21st-century business that competes with banks and other exchanges for every trade in a hyperfast world....
...“The internet has been the latest shift, and it certainly won’t be the last . . . we want to play our part by helping journalism in the 21st century.”...
...But since he took over in 2005, Mukesh has set about building the business into a conglomerate fit for the 21st century....
...This has included advising 21st Century Fox on its $71bn asset sale to Walt Disney, and US jeweller Tiffany when it recently agreed to be acquired by French luxury group LVMH for $16.6bn....
...Century Fox to Walt Disney no less — to fund early-stage companies that use technology to tackle disinformation and foster a “more sustainable news ecosystem”....
...Based on a sector average multiple, a Sony movie spin-off might be worth about half the $71bn paid by Walt Disney last year for 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets....
...Describing data as 21st-century oil is passé. But the parallel is naggingly relevant in relation to competition. Just over a century ago, trustbusters broke up Standard Oil....
...His mission, he says, is to create the world’s first 21st-century urban district. “People ask me, ‘are you surprised by the level of controversy?’ I actually am not,” he says....
...Something startling and unprecedented had emerged and its consequences will shape the moral and political milieu of 21st-century society and the values of our information civilisation....
...Goldman Sachs stands to make about $105m for advising 21st Century Fox in its $71bn asset sale to Walt Disney and for helping Rupert Murdoch finance his new broadcasting group, in one of the most lucrative...
...Their assumptions for asset class returns over the next seven years are not quite so rosy: Related Links: Are humans too flawed to survive the 21st century?...
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