Hints and tips:
...Job moves Latham & Watkins has hired Freshfields’ Mark Austin as a partner in its capital markets and public representation practice, based in London....
...Austin tends to conduct some of this work from a hired black cab, useful in London because they can get away with parking anywhere, at any time....
...While it is forecasting double-digit declines for home prices in Austin and San Francisco this year, it is predicting a 0.8 per cent gain for Miami and a 2.4 per cent bump next year....
...When Lyft and Uber left Austin, Texas, in 2016, after refusing to comply with local laws there, new companies filled the gap....
...Meanwhile, around 10,000 taxi drivers are going to be out of work from today in Austin, with Uber and Lyft pulling out of the Texas capital....
...That reasoning is shared by Joah Spearman, founder of Localeur, a local-recommendations start-up based in Austin, Texas....
...He said: “How do I sign up for Uber so I never have to use [a black cab] again?”...
...It’s a little-known fact that beauty editors work like spies or cab drivers; they form an international network you can call on when you need an answer to any beauty dilemma in any city globally....
...For the best part of 40 years, there was only one maker of the iconic London cab: a consortium of Carbodies of Coventry, carmaker Austin and dealership Mann and Overton....
...Few things mark this time of year as much as hordes of black tie-clad men hailing cabs at cocktail hour....
...One day, his uncle Dave let the four-year-old Fresco take control of his cab, a Low Loader made by Austin....
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