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...(Wu & Armstrong) One good read In one form or another, nearly all web advertising runs through Google’s pipes. It has an internal ad-tech system called, no joke, the Borg. Resistance is futile....
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...The so-called Pipe market has dried up significantly in recent months as the enthusiasm for blank-cheque deals has cooled significantly because of poor performance and increasing regulatory scrutiny....
...“They’ve been too broad, doing too many things with too many products and services,” he said. “We are a dumb pipe but we are going to be a bloody good dumb pipe.”...
...Yet telecoms-media convergence often comes at great cost and companies including AT&T and Verizon have embraced the notion that focusing on the pipes may not be so dumb after all....
...While the corporate metaverse sounds like some pipe dream, the truth is business phone calls provide a new reality for Zoom....
...A new $250m funding round values Pipe at $2bn, 10 times more than a year ago. 4....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 27. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The deal includes a $200m private investment in public equity, or Pipe financing, led by clients of BlackRock, as well as Google, Salesforce founder Marc Benioff’s Time Ventures, and energy group Koch....
...The sale of the media assets further underscores Verizon’s decision to focus on expanding its 5G internet services, which covered 230m people in more than 2,700 cities as of December last year....
...The jaunty sounds of a 1940s Israeli folk song pipe out from its speakers. “And she starts to sing,” he remembers. “Quietly, then louder, then tears start coming down her face....
...If Buffett triumphed, the money would go to Girls Inc. Initially, it looked like Buffett would have to eat some humble pie....
...Alkuri’s current $9.85 stock price is below the $10 per share at which investors, including Pipes, buy into the transaction....
...Royal Dutch Shell said ahead of a strategy day that it will accelerate “its transformation into a provider of net-zero emissions energy products and services”....
...Now, “the pitch is, ‘robotaxis are a pipe dream’, but let’s take this technology to do something more lucrative,” he adds....
...Three burst pipes had caused a flood. Glass shards and framed clippings were scattered all over the floor. One of the newsroom’s Pulitzer prizes lay amid the wreckage....
...Still investors should take heart from the two sides continuing to smoke a peace pipe. At the very least it signals ValueAct’s confidence that Citi will hit its much trumpeted 2020 targets....
...Fuelled by the advent of music streaming services such as Spotify, Sonos grew rapidly in the first half of the 2010s....
...His company, Tyne & Wear LGV, is a training centre for a programme jointly run by recruitment company Manpower Group and Specialised Training Services, a company that helps fund driver training....
...Would you prefer to be at the helm of Uber or PG&E, Northern California’s public utility service? I ask because the past few weeks have been testing for both organisations....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 1 2020. @2020 Nikkei Inc....
...When Dallas-based telco AT&T acquired New York and Hollywood-focused Time Warner last year, insiders at the media company worried that the heavily indebted pipes company would cramp the style (and budget...
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