Hints and tips:
...Since we went cashless, the little dish that sits near the sink in posh hotels (I’m thinking specifically about Claridge’s) has dwindled to nil....
...In the old days, football fans wanted a sugar daddy owner who could fund extravagant spending sprees in the transfer market to power their club to trophies. Farhad Moshiri appeared to fit the bill....
...Lex says CMR’s 731 patent filings should help justify the big investment by SoftBank....
...Sidewalk executives also hope to replicate this experiment elsewhere, meaning that Toronto is effectively a Petri dish, the results of which will be observed and used to design future developments....
...“It’s conceptually interesting, and if they do it properly it would be a very big deal,” said Rich Greenfield, analyst at BTIG....
...Charlie Ergen, chairman of satellite provider Dish Network, has called it “the most powerful content aggregator in the world today”....
...Better to gently tilt it via a dollop of 1970s gypsy and touch of wild west fringing; according to Kors, inspired by California’s Big Sur, though it looked more like Stevie Nicks-with-a-sugar-daddy....
...” … I order coffee and later I am presented with an enjoyable sweet Indian dish – gulab jamun – on the house. Geithner declines his. I turn to his future....
...Dish is also the reserve bidder for spectrum owned by Lightsquared’s creditors which is due to be sold off at auction next week....
...The 2002 Finance Act had exempted big overseas disposals from corporate CGT....
...DirecTV and Dish Network, two satellite operators, are already experimenting with targeted TV ads....
...(FastFT) Dish again under fire over LightSquared bid: “Shareholders suing the satellite-television company over its handling of an offer for LightSquared Inc. argue that two directors appointed by Dish...
...Despite the flurry of deals, investors are still more attracted by Big Pharma’s defensive qualities than by the prospect of another bout of industry consolidation....
...The latest big deal came last week, as Dish Network offered $25.5bn for Sprint Nextel. The deal would give Dish chairman Charlie Ergen a unified offering of wireless voice and data services....
...We get a mix of clientele, couples coming on dates, and big groups. It has been quite popular with the ladies.”...
...Terms were agreed for the ECB to begin direct supervision of big eurozone lenders from early 2014....
...Nor are the pay TV players standing idly by: Comcast, Verizon and Dish are all offering new streaming services....
...Author Malcolm Gladwell described these two personalities in his book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, and Facebook has taken note....
...My BlackBerry is buzzing with e-mails from lawyers, updates from business partners, and analyses from Big Daddy’s legal team....
...Namely, to track more or less in real time manufacturing PMIs all the way from Japan, Korea, India and China through Russia, Europe, Brazil to the big daddy of them all — the US ISM release....
...If it looks like a cow and moos like a cow, chances are the animal could make a tasty dish – but isn’t venison. Investors should take note....
...“It’s a big deal and it’s on everybody’s mind.” Chief executives attending the meeting include Rupert Murdoch of News Corp, Barry Diller of IAC, Robert Iger of Disney, and Brian Roberts of Comcast....
...Nearly every dish, down to the smallest pastry, comes with a garnish of fresh fruit....
...His experience is a microcosm of the pain of this ambitious city that was until recently the petri dish of global capitalism – but has become one of the biggest casualties of the credit crunch....
...Cook may be the big daddy of both of them but at 64, retirement might seem to beckon. Plus there’s the small matter of Cook’s libel battle....
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