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...Former leadership consultant Ashley Goodall is so right that change isn’t the same as improvement, something reflected in the churn in Silicon Valley right now....
...Free heating, no queue in the café, plenty of vacant meeting rooms, and best of all no colleagues! Responses have been edited for length and clarity....
...Even those who are reluctant, he adds, have come to realise it’s the cost of entry into Apple's curated marketplace....
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...“What we’ve witnessed in the last four or five years is a shift in the marketplace that has been driven by the workforce,” said Bruce Mosler, chairman of global brokerage at Cushman & Wakefield....
...That is why the disparaging comments at the beginning of this column relate to Sports Direct workers’ team leaders, not Mike Ashley, the retail chain’s chief executive....
...(NYT) Amanda Staveley/Newcastle United The former model-turned-financier has tabled two bids for Mike Ashley’s club. Here’s the full behind the scenes story....
...She loves to buy, sell and try clothes online; she’s a big fan of [online marketplace] Depop.”...
...Yahoo started investigating a potential security breach in August after reports surfaced that more than 200m Yahoo user records had been offered for sale on underground marketplaces....
...New York recently launched a $2m fund to help develop digital co-operatives among companies such as print shops, neighbourhood cafés and artisan makers of high-end goods....
...Orion Hindawi, Tanium’s co-founder and chief technology officer, said investors were becoming more “disciplined” in terms of cyber security start-ups — looking for traction in the marketplace rather than...
...Shares in Etsy, a Brooklyn-based craft-selling site, fell 4 per cent to $13.57 after Amazon rolled out its own marketplace for artisan goods....
...In the UK, even the average six-year tenure is too long, says Graeme Ashley-Fenn, co-head of regulatory practice at Alvarez & Marsal, the consultancy....
...“You don’t have to be digital to be innovative,” as Ashley Highfield, Johnston Press’s chief executive, pointed out, praising the combination....
...“It is quite in vogue to love animals,” says Lauren Pears, owner of Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium, London’s first (and oversubscribed) cat café, which opened in March in Bethnal Green, east London....
...The closest the flat-pack furniture group gets to food retailing is serving meatballs in its cafés....
...When Saiphin and Alex Moore, founders of Rosa’s Thai Café, wanted “a fresh set of eyes on the business”, Mr Moore was sure he “didn’t want a consultant”, he says....
...Whether it’s Apple sending cease-and-desist letters to supermarkets and cafes over their fruity icons, or itself being sued by the Beatles’ Apple Records, brands are fiercely protective of their marques....
...Backers include Advent Venture Partners and Index Ventures, two of Europe’s biggest technology venture capital firms, and Condé Nast, whose stable of titles includes Vogue....
...Some international schools in the city have removed eggs and poultry from their cafés and started doing temperature checks on people entering their campuses....
...One company I am considering is Panera Bread, a café/restaurant in which freshly-baked artisan bread is the unique selling point....
...For his latest venture, a café and start-up workspace called Central Working, Layfield and his business partner raised £500,000 from two angel investors....
...LivingSocial is the largest but others such as Gilt City are moving into the marketplace fast. There are European clones....
...eviscerations he penned a decade ago as a critic for The New Republic (“Rick Moody is the worst writer of his generation,” began one review), the collective includes the novelist Joshua Furst (The Sabotage Café...
...Named after the marketplace and commercial centre in Kalamu, Kinshasa, this lively area has flea markets, fruit and vegetable stalls and pavement cafés in small squares....
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