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...“As long as you continue supporting these markets, you’re still enabling their massive carbon footprint,” Digiconomist founder Alex de Vries told me....
...Developed by the Disney veteran and Meg Whitman, former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, Quibi had managed to raise billions from the biggest names in Hollywood with the idea of selling “quick-bites”...
...Ms Whitman said it was “nearly 35 per cent more than any television network delivers during their primetime schedule”....
...Tony Shiret, an analyst at Whitman Howard, said the fate of the remaining Carphone Warehouse stores “was the elephant in the room” in the company’s restructuring plan....
...Alex Baldock, who took over as chief executive in April and promptly issued a profit warning that blamed past short-termism and lack of focus, said: “We have been too stuck on traditional 24-month post-pay...
...A number of the current board members, including executive chairman Clive Watson and managing directors Rupert Clark and Alex Derrick, worked together previously running Capital Pub Company....
...(FT) New money for NewTV An unusual alliance of Hollywood studios, Wall Street banks and the family fund of Walmart’s founders have invested $1bn into Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s ambitious mobile...
...– Alex Tabarrok on colonialism and Empire: The British Empire was cruel, rapacious and racist....
...A few years ago, two Kandahar-based researchers, Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, found the Taliban putting poetry on their official website....
...We are looking at a “Jack the Dripper” Pollock; at Alex Katz’s blaze of “The Red Smile”; at George Bellows’ merciless punching....
...Over lunch with Mr Krecké, eBay’s Meg Whitman said she ruled out Luxembourg because of some weaknesses in IT infrastructure — prompting an immediate promise of investment. “We are not tax consultants....
...“A combination of regulation and the markets have raised the cost of capital for European banks,” says Mike Whitman, who is responsible for the lending business in Europe at GSO’s London office....
...Documentarists Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood have edited raw footage once shot by Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Kesey, Neal Cassady (Kerouac chum) and other Beat Era gadabouts, who set out to celebrate...
...100 Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists, by Alex Danchev, Penguin Modern Classics, RRP£12.99, 496 pages “Workers of the mind, unite!”...
...Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder and the Cold War in the Caribbean, by Alex von Tunzelmann, Simon & Schuster, RRP£25, 558 pages A study of US-Soviet rivalry in the western hemisphere in the 1950s and 1960s,...
...Suggested by Dante’s Purgatory, the work regales us with a parade of mangled bodies, twisted limbs, thwarted leaps and truncated desires, all dressed in Alex Katz’s 1960s fashions, danced before a wall of...
...Meg Whitman, chief executive, announced the departure in the autumn of Jeff Jordan, president of its PayPal online payments service....
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