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...shifts within Berkshire as Buffett leans on a new generation Charlie Munger’s fingerprints are all over Berkshire Hathaway, from some of its most consequential deals — including the purchases of See’s Candies...
...THG has previously been subject to takeover interest from a range of investors, including property tycoon Nick Candy and THG non-executive director Iain McDonald, seeking to take advantage of a share price...
...In Curbed, Jordan Salama introduces us to the migrant children and their families who spend their days underground, selling candy in the New York City subway....
...Tech tools — Candy’s smart laundry Italian appliance maker Candy introduced a smart Wi-Fi washing machine today as part of its new WashPass subscription service....
...Yet when Apple marked the 10-year anniversary of the iPhone app store just a few weeks later, its press release celebrated the popularity of Angry Birds, Candy Crush Saga and Instagram without acknowledging...
...In March, the company raised £4m through a share placing and subscription, and a further £4.5m a month later from investments from Nick Candy, the luxury property developer, and Edge Investments the creative...
...And if anyone can keep players hooked on Candy, the sequel king Kotick can....
...It makes much use of brooms and ladder-back chairs and is set to Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring....
...Smucker (jam, $16bn), Snyder’s-Lance (pretzels and chips, $2.6bn) and Tootsie Roll (candy, $1.8bn)....
...But it’s also becoming something more fantastical and precise: candy-coloured fake fur, as with fledgling London label Shrimps, nostalgic ripped denim à la Marques’Almeida or, as with Être Cécile, playful...
...It can cost $10m to build a network of microwave towers to beam data across the Appalachian mountains, says a consultant....
...Mascots dressed as characters from the mobile video game “Candy Crush Saga” pose outside the New York Stock Exchange ahead of the IPO of Mobile game maker King Digital Entertainment Plc....
...small institutional investors filed a class-action suit against the News Corp board, claiming that the company was “paying for nepotism” and alleging that Mr Murdoch treated News Corp “like a wholly owned candy...
...King Digital, maker of the Candy Crush Saga game, was itself crushed when it listed on Wednesday and fell more that 15 per cent....
...“You can play Candy Crush up to the end without spending a penny, but there are mechanisms in there that nudge you to spend.”...
...“King’s valuation is predicated on the continued success both of Candy Crush Saga and of a successor to Candy Crush Saga . . . I am nervous valuing it on the basis of striking gold again.”...
...Candy Crush is deceptively simple, inviting players to form rows of three jellied sweets....
...It can also use its beachhead in Candy Crush to promote new titles....
...But lapsed gamers such as myself might want to do more than slide candy or fling birds around, for longer than those games’ usual five-minute sessions....
...But this columnist is fully up to speed with Candy Crush, whose creator King Digital has filed to float on the New York Stock Exchange, in an implied snub to the London market....
...(Financial Times) ‘Candy Crush Saga’ game creator files for New York IPO: “The UK-based company behind the Candy Crush Saga mobile gaming phenomenon is to float in New York, seeking to raise about $500m...
...Its filing is published the same week that King, maker of mobile games such as Candy Crush Saga, plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange....
...King Digital, the maker of Candy Crush, continues to trade below its offering price....
...(Financial Times) Candy Crush developer’s IPO raises $500m despite investor fears over its ability to repeat the app’s success: London-based King raised $500m from the IPO late on Tuesday, valuing the company...
...When I confess to an addiction to Clash of Clans, an iPad strategy game with a cartoony Game of Thrones-like theme, Kalanick admits to his own “guilty pleasure”: Candy Crush Saga , which has topped the App...
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