Hints and tips:
...Buffett (who famously called diversification “protection against ignorance”) now has three-quarters of his equity investments in five companies (Apple, Bank of America, Chevron, Coca-Cola and American Express...
...We are a software as a service business. We charge banks a transactional fee. Every loan that we analyse is a transactional charge....
...Even some fellow Wall Street tycoons quietly express disquiet over its gargantuan size....
...What’s the point of subscribing to the service if you don’t get instant access to its content?...
..., chief executive of American Express GBT....
...At the Formia stand, which is at the neighbouring Catering & Onboard Services Expo, a special Turkish Airlines amenity bag for Hajj pilgrims includes a prayer mat and alcohol-free hand sanitiser....
...To a consumer, the service might feel like Amazon Prime. But as a business, it is closer to Uber or Alibaba....
...Hagop Kantarjian, a leukaemia specialist at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas, argues that no amount of innovation can justify the doubling in average US prices over the past decade to more than $100,000...
...How you express that in a quarterly report, of course, is another question....
...Chris Anderson, the former editor of Wired, declared the death of the web nearly four years ago....
...Tucked away in a corner of Sheremetyevo Airport’s Terminal E, just to the right of Burger King, is an unassuming metal door which leads to the V-Express capsule hotel....
...The Anderson school at UCLA, for example, now requires just one essay while the Stern school at NYU has reduced its compulsory essay count from three to two....
...The third crash involved a Bombardier Global Express jet landing in high winds near a golf resort in Nova Scotia....
...Anonymous could have taken any number of avenues to express itself, but the main one favoured by members was denial-of-service attacks that overwhelmed financial websites and temporarily knocked them offline...
...V.G. Siddhartha is a reluctant interviewee. Initially rebuffing a request from the Financial Times, he politely e-mailed: “I don’t think I have got any great story at this time.”...
...Atos Origin, the French IT services group, meanwhile, has joined the private equity consortium of CVC Capital Partners and Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe to bid for RBS’s Global Merchant Services division...
...But when Hurley tries to express his vision, it’s almost as if he is trying on an unfamiliar set of clothes....
...I’d say the George V for sheer over-the-topness and people-watching, lunch at Noura, a treat from Goyard and dinner at Ferdi....
...He spoke ahead of a ceremony held by the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he received the John Wooden Global Leadership award – named after the legendary basketball coach, who guided the UCLA team...
...The super-large Gulfstream V/G500 went from $42m to $25.4m over the same period....
...Bank of America’s June charge-offs were close to 14 per cent and delinquencies – loans that have not been paid – were 1.9 per cent, exceeding the totals for Citigroup, JPMorgan, American Express, Capital...
...It sports 25 adapters to connect to the enterprise software suites of rivals such as Oracle and SAP, and supports Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualisation software....
...Analysts said Visa and rival MasterCard are insulated from rising defaults and late payments because, unlike American Express and Discover Financial Services, neither of them actually extends credit to cardholders...
...MySpace was founded by Chris DeWolfe, now 40, and Tom Anderson, 30, who had been involved in internet businesses in Santa Monica....
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