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...The software mega-deal (aka “Project Atlas”) orchestrated by Broadcom’s Hock Tan and PC king Michael Dell could be one of the largest technology deals on record, if reviews by the CMA — which will report...
...Europe’s start-ups were on the receiving end of a funding frenzy in 2021 that birthed more than 100 “unicorns”, aka tech start-ups valued at more than $1bn....
...Also alluded to are Glass Lewis and ISS — real-world groups who advise companies with extensive holdings on how to use their proxy votes at annual general meetings of shareholders....
...That eclipses the sell-off at Apple, Alphabet, Facebook/Meta and Amazon — aka the other Faang stocks....
...Chinese investment group CITIC Securities says the true figure is closer to $500bn....
...Anonymity means it cannot offer the sort of targeted advertising that made Meta, aka Facebook, $9bn of profit in the last quarter....
...But the economics can show up through either a one-time (violent) balance sheet adjustment – aka a financial crisis – or through many quarters of income statements (a debt bubble being deflated)....
...Revenue (aka platform sales) rose in 2020 as China recovered from the global health crisis. That compares to a 14 per cent drop at Uber and the 35 per cent decline at Lyft....
...As the muted reaction to the IPO may suggest, Soho House — aka Membership Collective Group, as it was renamed for the IPO — has not been profitable in its 26-year history....
...Hedge funds have woken up to the scent of pricier coffee, piling into the arabica futures market last month to accumulate a large net long position — aka a bet that prices will rise — equivalent to Colombia...
...Jim Chanos raises the red flag on Spacs Prodding through a certain Houston energy company’s trading positions back in 2000, Jim Chanos said the group was “a hedge fund in disguise”....
...But the question of what Soho House (aka Membership Collective Group Inc) might be worth is especially interesting....
...And another thing: the US Securities and Exchange Commission has sent requests for information to groups involved in the listing of blank-cheque companies, intensifying regulatory scrutiny of a booming area...
...This would see traditional players in the renewables space potentially lose out to oil companies....
...cutting-edge technology is supposed to allow financial institutions “to send money across borders, instantly, reliably and for fractions of a penny”, by the power of its immutable digital dream-ledger (aka...
...Welch’s song featured on her album Time (The Revelator), which was released on July 31 2001, exactly nine months after Bertelsmann Music Group (aka BMG), signed a landmark deal with peer-to-peer file-sharing...
...That market is cornered by Mark Anthony Brands, the privately owned company behind White Claw and Boston Beer’s Truly....
...Moss has previously worked at Skype and at a software company owned by buyout group Carlyle. Ropes & Gray has added Egan Cammack and Laura Hirst to the law firm’s asset management practice in Boston....
...Facebook relies much more on advertising than Twitter and Google (hence the company’s attempts to diversify by creating a global Federal Reserve equivalent, aka Libra)....
...Last month, he popped up on the advisory board of Tennor Holding, the rebranded Sapinda, aka the holding company of maverick German entrepreneur Lars Windhorst. Bad timing....
...If YouTube revenue was $15bn last year, as Bain analysts estimate, that would equal just over a tenth of the group total....
...Mr Stone is one of the company’s more serious departures....
...Remitly's existing investors include Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, global internet and entertainment group Naspers as well as venture capital firms DFJ and DN Capital....
...Hon Hai Precision (aka Foxconn, best known for assembling Apple iPhones) gets 33 per cent of its sales in the US and has a 22 per cent correlation....
...On Wednesday, the company named John Giannandrea, an expert in machine learning, to run the engineering group that devises its ranking algorithms....
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