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...These visits come after their traditional North American and European backers contend with an economic downturn that has forced them to rein in private investments....
...It will largely affect private equity and venture capital firms....
...For one thing, management seems to have traded English understatement for American optimism....
...Financiers pay homage to a Rothschild Dimon and debt at a packed Miami conference Tiger Global reflects on a ‘solid recovery year’ Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global is preparing to make new investments in private technology...
...Now he runs a venture capital firm with his partner, Ben Horowitz....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Jeremy Fleming, the recently departed head of British cyber intelligence spy agency GCHQ, has been hired to chair the advisory board of UK venture firm Gallos Technologies....
...Nasa asked Raymond Loewy to help turn the hull of the third stage of a Saturn V rocket into a home in which a three-man crew could live for three months at a time....
...“Companies were raising way ahead of where they should have been, and then valuations fell off the cliff,” said Sanjay Swamy, managing partner at Bengaluru-based venture capital firm Prime Venture Partners...
...It reported that more Americans thought the “widespread use of driverless cars” would be “a bad idea” than those who felt it would be “a good idea”....
...Tiger Global studies ways to sell private tech stakes Prominent technology investors such as Tiger Global are increasingly looking to sell down stakes in unlisted technology companies as a way to return...
...And JPMorgan has taken full control of its securities joint venture in China....
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...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...Ralph Hamers’s delayed American dream Becoming a Swiss banking heavyweight isn’t hard to do when your chief rival is Credit Suisse....
...American hands a tool that Washington has condemned for enabling transnational repression....
...If they want to take technology leaps, they need to run financial marathons.”...
...US Olympian Allyson Felix hosted a fireside chat and after-hours entertainment was provided by American rock band The Killers....
...France’s Engie and Spain’s EDP Renewables, under the snazzy joint venture name of Central California Offshore Wind LLC, will develop a project together....
...Last week I spoke with former American Express executive Andrew Jamison about his company Extend, which looks to help traditional banks offer modern payment technology to commercial clients through APIs....
...But some have questioned the relevance of its technology, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation....
...Instacart, an American player in the apparently newfangled world of instant grocery delivery, slashed its valuation by almost 40 per cent from $39bn to $24bn two weeks ago....
...Now it lists just eight: 48) Loan Transactions and Technology LLC / Edge Tradeworks Edge Tradeworks, which previously operated under the “Loan Transactions and Technology” name, offer loan trading tools...
...This exhibition at the V&A invites us into the opulent world of master goldsmith Carl Fabergé and his London clientele....
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