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...Rather than wait around for a stroke of luck, one plucky Scottish team is making a direct appeal to celebrities worldwide. That’s right, Motherwell FC think they offer “real bang for your buck”....
...Yellow, whose roots go back to 1906, had struggled for years with a heavy debt load and troubled acquisitions. Whatever its challenges, the company’s rapid implosion appears disproportionate....
...Since then the retailer has had to contend with the effects of inflation as well as the heavy debt load it took on when CD&R acquired it....
...The massive ferry, which normally loads and unloads vehicles at ports, had been modified with a hydraulic ramp that enabled amphibious tanks to load and unload in coastal waters....
...“I’ve saved loads over lockdown and if I see more stuff I like then yeah, I’ll keep shopping,” he said, adding that the trainers he was after can be almost twice as expensive online....
...Total US subscribers to HBO, including the Max platform, climbed to 41m in the quarter and 61m worldwide....
...Total subscribers to HBO, including the Max platform, climbed to 38m in the quarter, and 57m worldwide....
...A dollar a month paid by its 2bn users worldwide would translate into $24bn of revenue — not too shabby....
...Launched four years ago by Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, below, Jio is valued at more than $60bn, but its rapid expansion has lumbered Reliance with a heavy debt load....
...The company plans to use the proceeds from these and other recent deals to pay down some of its crippling debt load, which stood at $9.3bn in December....
...This year’s Worldwide Developers Conference comes at a time when Apple’s services business has achieved elevated prominence....
...Curve is a free service, although premium users can pay £150 upfront for a metal Curve card which offers fee-free foreign transactions, worldwide travel insurance, gadget insurance and the ability to “go...
...And they build a shiny new factory, or they will give one particular factory loads and loads of money and put all of the competitors out of work....
...“There never will again be a single dominant format” for television commercials, said David Lubars, chief creative officer of BBDO Worldwide, the advertising agency that was the inspiration for Mad Men’s...
...Load factors have been falling since 2014....
...At the Turner upfront this week, the Time Warner-owned company said it would reduce the ad-load in its programming and run fewer commercials; FX and Nat Geo, two channels owned by 21st Century Fox, have...
...More than 200m people worldwide use ad-blocking software, which is double the number two years ago, according to estimates by PageFair, the anti-blocking service, and Adobe, the software company....
...UK broadcasters ITV and Channel 4 are among a number of companies that have refused to load content on their websites when they detect that a visitor is using an ad blocker....
...The worldwide crude glut has also spilled into supplies for petroleum products....
...After analysing 200 hours of footage of shovel buckets from 20 mines worldwide, Mr Tafazoli says his computer algorithm can better detect when a tooth is missing....
...Changes planned for iOS 9, the operating system that will be pushed out later this year, include “Content Blocking Safari Extensions”, according to documents shared with appmakers this week at Apple’s Worldwide...
...● Stuck with a load of telecoms devices that nobody wants any more? Here’s a tip....
...“I getting chipped away at a load of bank filth for the fix . . . back to bully [meaning €50m] . . . hopefully decks a bit cleaner”....
...Hilton’s business quickly deteriorated and Blackstone was forced to act to restructure the heavy debt load and aggressively cut costs to nurse the hotelier back to health....
...Hilton Worldwide is preparing for a US listing that could see the Blackstone-controlled hotel conglomerate return to public markets as soon as early 2014, people familiar with its plans said....
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