Hints and tips:
...Under the deal, announced ahead of the Las Vegas Grand Prix this weekend, Arctos will take a “minority shareholding” in AMR Holding GP Limited, the team’s holding company....
...Under the deal, announced ahead of the Las Vegas Grand Prix this weekend, Arctos will take a “minority shareholding” in AMR Holdings GP Limited, the team’s holding company....
...JH: I remember doing mobile maps on the generation of smartphones before the iPhone — [when] they were just starting to add GPS to mobile phones. And it didn’t work very well....
...While he is in favour of rolling out tracing apps, the commissioner has been vocal in his opposition to the introduction of apps that would track individuals’ movements in real time using GPS technology....
...For the likes of Dyal and its two chief competitors, Mr Brandmeyer’s Petershill fund at Goldman and the Blackstone Strategic Capital Holdings fund, the attraction of GP ownership is the steady management...
...Its key features are a proprietary locking system and GPS navigation technology. GPS allows users to see which bikes are nearby and hold them for up to 15 minutes until they get there....
...“You don’t see many billionaires who became billionaires by being LPs – but plenty who did by becoming GPs,” Mr Morley said....
...In the loop: Dan spots a useful chart from Citi which shows the recent rise in bank holdings of sovereign debt....
...US Airways and AMR Corporation said they expected the two companies to merge on December 9 before markets opened. They anticipate the merged airline to be the US’s largest by sales....
...In addition to AMR Corp filing for bankruptcy, Dynegy Holdings, which was also in a number of high yield credit indices, also filed....
...After acquiring the chain in 2006 and buying out the Brazilian founders last year, GP hired JPMorgan Chase to sell the business....
...One issue involves a $113.2m loan Mr Falcone took from his Special Situations fund to cover personal tax obligations, at a time when he had barred investors from cashing out their holdings in the fund....
...LightSquared, funded mainly by Philip Falcone’s Harbinger Capital, is struggling to overcome GPS interference issues before it can launch its planned nationwide wholesale LTE network....
...AMR , American Airlines’ parent company, was down 1.9 per cent to $6.27 while Hawaiian Holdings lost 2.5 per cent to $5.88....
...Arab stars Nancy Ajram and Amr Diab sang for Gulf and Tunisian dignitaries as the Sharjah-based group sought to extend the franchise of Dubai Sports City, which also mixes property with sports venues, into...
...In October, Gartner’s AMR unit published its annual list of the top 25 companies that demonstrate leadership in supply chain management....
...At the same time companies, especially those in retail, want to reduce their stock holdings. But they also want to avoid shortages and disappointed customers....
...He also co-wrote the Galileo Report for the French prime minister, François Fillon, on the €17bn European programme aimed at creating a satellite system that rivals GPS....
...UAL is now down 22.3 per cent for the week and AMR has fallen 11.1 per cent....
...UAL Corp, parent of United Airlines, retreated 8.4 per cent to $11.15 while AMR Corp, parent of American Airlines, the world’s largest carrier, lost 4.5 per cent to $9.61....
...Anheuser-Busch gained 2 per cent to $51.04 after Brazil’s Valor Economico reported that the brewer was holding merger talks with InBev of Belgium....
...Goldman Sachs analysts changed their rating on AMR and JetBlue, sending shares in the two airline groups in opposite directions....
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