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...Other investors include former Google chief Eric Schmidt, French telecoms billionaire Xavier Niel, and Bpifrance, the French state-backed investment bank, a sign of the strategic nature of the project....
...In the meantime, I’d like to hear your thoughts on any and all trade subjects: as ever, it’s alan.beattie@ft.com. Ukraine, the new world order and the EU’s role I’m writing this from Germany....
...There’s a new book co-authored by Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt....
...Guggenheim Partners’ Alan Schwartz put the risks of rising income inequality more starkly....
...UBS has charged Alan Felder with running its new private capital markets team in the Americas, on top of his current job leading the real estate, lodging and leisure team....
...Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell, by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle Bill Campbell is credited with helping to build some of Silicon Valley...
...The solutions came via a succession of manned lunar projects: Mercury (which put the first American, Alan Shepard, in space), then Gemini and finally Apollo....
...He later became chair of Save the Children International, whose chief executive is the former Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt....
...Replacing Alan Opie, reportedly indisposed, Gregory Schmidt strides imposingly through the conniving platitudes of Arbace....
...Here’s a chart worth studying closely: It comes from new research by Oscar Jorda, Katharina Knoll, Dmitry Kuvshinov, Moritz Schularick, and Alan M. Taylor....
...In it he showed off his book shelves in his new office in SPD party headquarters — his predecessor’s TV has been chucked out — and talked about the tomes that have shaped his life, from Alan Bullock’s biography...
...(This story is ably told in Martin Anderson’s Revolution and in Sebastian Mallaby’s biography of Alan Greenspan, who was one of the main fiscal hawks in Reagan’s circle.)...
...A tall, powerfully built figure, blessed with a steady gaze and natural authority, he was second only to Alan Greenspan, chairman of the US Federal Reserve board, as the decade’s most influential monetary...
...One of the people in Britain charged with ensuring that is not the case is Professor Andrew Blake, who took up post last week as the first director of the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s new national centre...
...Yet Deep Blue and Watson are versions of the “Turing machine”, a mathematical model devised by Alan Turing which sets the limits of what a computer can do....
...“There’s Maggie Thatcher shouting into Reagan’s ear, there’s Willy Brandt, and Schmidt.”...
...with Alan Eagle, John Murray, RRP£25/Grand Central Publishing, RRP$30, 352 pages The Hard Thing about Hard Things: Building a Business When there are No Easy Answers, by Ben Horowitz, Harper Business,...
...Photographs: Alamy; Jochen Schmidt; Michael Howard/Four Corners; Bob Jones; Dreamstime...
...Last December he was caught taking a self-portrait with Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt during Nelson Mandela’s memorial in South Africa....
...Alan Mak, a 30-year-old non-executive director of Havas Worldwide (UK), thinks boards should make it a priority to take on more young directors....
...“So I made a business plan for a new type of company,” he says, having been encouraged by Eric Schmidt, then chief executive of Google, who was teaching at Stanford....
...A number of high-profile executives were said to have been approached, including Ford boss Alan Mulally and Mark Hurd, the president of Oracle....
...In the end, the prize went to the veteran German photographer Michael Schmidt....
...Foundation members include Alan Mycroft, a professor at Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory, and Jack Lang, entrepreneur in residence at the university’s Judge Business School....
...IT leaders, such as Google’s Eric Schmidt, have criticised the UK’s IT education as inadequate....
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