Hints and tips:
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Recent medical literature suggests that severe manifestations of COVID19 may be due to tissue damage caused by severe immune dysregulation (Li H, et al; The Lancet; April 2020)....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...George W Bush and Al Gore in 2000: “[He] couldn’t win — just like Howard Schultz can’t win if he runs — but he was able to peel off enough votes . . . to throw the election to George Bush....
...On the trail George W Bush on Trumpism At a private fundraiser in Ohio, the former president delivered a pointed critique of the policies of “isolationism, nativism and protectionism”....
...“I think you can probably watch Bridge of Spies at home, but I wouldn’t want to watch ET there,” says Obst. “I wouldn’t want to watch The Revenant at home....
...Eric Schmidt of Google has a simple test: if you aren’t one of a handful of apps on the home screen of your audience’s smartphone, you may as well be the last....
...In the Netflix world, Comcast et al still deliver the content, but they need to find a new way of getting paid....
...(NYT$) Off-piste at Davos Today’s agenda includes discussions on the future of the digital economy with Eric Schmidt and Sheryl Sandberg (4.45pm GMT), and a talk from Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi...
...Cable, Dish Network, DirecTV, CBS and AT&T....
...Talking over breakfast in a New York hotel, he still looks like the archetypal tech entrepreneur: focused and somewhat intense, wearing a black polo shirt and charcoal V-neck....
...The “back end” of the network – the part where Netflix connects to Comcast et al – would be a tightly-regulated telecoms service....
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...“I won’t say that people come here because of them but I think they see them as a sign the hospital is progressive.”...
...Basically, another angry reflection of how important rising wages are to Abenomics’ success and how irritated Abe et al are at those big companies refusing to part with the extra yen Abenomics has brought...
...have to read on, don’t you?...
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...The group’s explanation is that the deals have been struck between the bankers and a Georgia-registered banking subsidiary. Mr Gilauri et al have normal contracts with the UK-based holding company....
...Reading my newspaper over coffee this morning, I almost fell out of my chair while perusing a tech story on Google, Amazon et al, which ended with the following observation: “Google, Microsoft and Amazon...
...: “If you don’t know, who does?...
...Abrahamson et al find evidence that “strategic pricing” (implicit collusion) is as strong as ever in the US IPO market....
...“We faced a draconian future where one man, one company, one device, one carrier would be our only choice,” Google’s Vic Dundotra ominously intones. “That’s a future we don’t want.”...
...A portable Wi-Fi hotspot feature in a Froyo phone was demonstrated giving internet connectivity to an iPad, mocking iPad users’ need to sign up and pay AT&T to get a comparable connection....
...The fact that Iran was a “trending topic” on Twitter wasn’t a reflection of true revolutionaries at work: it merely amplified a hopeful echo chamber in the west....
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