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...Unlike rivals Savills and Knight Frank, which operate as a single firm, Sotheby’s Real Estate runs on a franchise system....
...His first job was as a systems engineer with General Signal in Birmingham, before he moved to Ernst & Young. In banking, Raghavan gravitated towards numbers....
...Ripley is only the latest casualty of a system that seems to have lost its way....
...Amid New Orleans festivities, rainmakers wonder if the party is over for Delaware Delaware, Inc. may be the enterprise now under the most intense activist threat....
...“There will be billion-dollar franchises and $10bn franchises rising out of [AI technology] that haven’t been built yet [or that have been] barely imagined,” he said....
...An overhaul of the bank’s core risk and compliance systems has kept expenses running ahead of revenue growth. Fraser has mountains left to move. Given this, the temptation is to write Citi off....
...Last month, it found that Microsoft’s $75bn acquisition of Activision Blizzard would harm competition for UK gamers, and proposed the sell-off of the blockbuster Call of Duty franchise....
...“We’re not going to be picky about who we do business with as long as they meet the standards of our franchise.”...
...The developer has previously been reluctant to license its franchises to subscription services, and told the UK regulator it was sceptical of that market....
...In January 2022, Bank of America analysts suggested that the “franchise could be worth US$12.5bn-$15.5bn”....
...But in today’s financialised healthcare system, it’s more likely to be a private equity-owned “physician staffing” company....
...These are the systems that give phone games such a bad rap....
...Overhauling its computer systems is going to be hard work — chief financial officer Mark Mason says Citi is trying to consolidate 37 bank loan processing systems on to one platform....
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...The company next wants to invest in “volumetric capture”, a system that can take hundreds of hours of footage from past matches to create even more realistic action....
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...Nguyen was optimistic Vietnam could move away from censorship towards a rating system, for example, with films that require parental guidance being marked as PG....
...The 55-year-old company is synonymous with credit cards, but its business is best described as the plumbing that supports much of the global payments system....
...But one thing stands out about the Call My Agent franchise in the age of streaming....
...By extending Microsoft’s vertical integration in gaming, beefing up its content creation to supplement its Xbox console and PC games distribution systems, Nadella has underlined a stark contrast with the...
...The deal points to widening inequality not only between players coming up in the system and superstars like Scherzer, but between clubs themselves....
...The strategy now, Kreiz says, is a two-legged one: in its core business, Mattel is pushing for profit growth by focusing on “play systems”, ranges of products designed to fit together and have “cultural...
...Governance experts said adjournments of votes on other issues were also rare, but pointed to a 2000 case in which Wisconsin’s investment board sued Peerless Systems after the technology company stalled a...
...“Then we have a great franchise in Spacs and we think that will grow in Europe”, as well as a surge in client demand for advice on the disruption that environmental, social and governance requirements are...
...The economy was in a shambles, after the US mortgage crisis had rocked the global financial system, and many Wall Streeters were desperate for distractions....
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