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...Job moves Disney has appointed outgoing Morgan Stanley chief executive James Gorman and former Sky chief executive Jeremy Darroch to its board of directors....
...Soon afterwards, Geovanis became chief executive of Somerset Coal International, a small Moscow-based mining technology company whose shareholders included Black....
...Citrix board chair Calderoni, a former chief executive of the software company Ariba, replaced Henshall on an interim basis....
...air capture, which sucks carbon dioxide from the sky....
...(New York Times) Private equity is watching Silicon Valley buyout group Francisco Partners has poured billions into surveillance technology companies in exchange for eye-watering returns....
...“With infection rates rising we must use every tool at our disposal to prevent transmission, including the latest technology,” he said....
...Anyway, there’s much to enjoy in the paper for policy wonks, technologists or historians, so do have a read if you want a break from wondering whether we’ll have a V-shaped recovery or not....
...Trees do not go on growing until they touch the sky. Our popular newsletter for premium subscribers Best of Lex is published twice weekly. Please sign up here....
...Hong Kong has sky-high property prices and an unfriendly regulatory regime....
...As Waymo is widely considered to be the most advanced company in the self-driving technology space, the move is likely to be seen as a concession that its go-it-alone approach is falling short of sky-high...
...Ofcom said the proportion of people signed up to Netflix, Amazon Prime, Sky’s Now TV and Disney Life “leapt” to 47 per cent this year, compared to 39 per cent last year, with many subscribed to more than...
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...Mr Hilton now hosts a Fox News show, The Next Revolution — his much satirised attempts to introduce “blue skies thinking” into Conservative party politics now has a much wider audience....
...Certainly, trees don’t grow to the sky....
...The annual gathering of technology, media, sport and industry titans at Sun Valley, Idaho, organised by Allen & Co, was barely under way before another shot in the bidding battle for Sky was fired by Comcast...
...Of course, we would be remiss to mention the regulatory guillotine hanging over big technology....
...Our readers should note he excluded stocks which ended up going to zero, such as Polaroid, which explains why there is a dearth of technology stocks, bar IBM, on this list....
...Facebook v YouTube: contrasting approaches The music business has been intermittently at odds with technology platforms for decades, since digital piracy ravaged the sector’s traditional business model....
...In a report for new tariffs on Chinese exports last week, the US named several companies that have repeatedly bought US businesses and technologies....
...Disney would consolidate its position as the world’s largest media company, adding Fox’s 39 per cent stake in Sky, the pan-European broadcaster, and the 20th Century Fox movie studio to a vast portfolio...
...The fact remains: Walt Disney has held talks with Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox about buying most of the company, including its stake in UK-based Sky....
...“The real concern for most companies contemplating an IPO isn’t the challenge of going public, it is the obligations and opportunities that come with being public,” said Lise Buyer, a partner at Class V...
...Leading backers included Sky, the UK satellite broadcaster, which agreed to contribute £5m in exchange for naming rights to part of the bridge....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 4 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...While the HBO Now service is available in the US, its international distribution is more limited: in the UK, for example, HBO programming is distributed by Sky via its Sky Atlantic channel....
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