Hints and tips:
...Currently, only Apple users are able to communicate via iMessage, making its signature “blue bubble” texts a key factor in retaining iPhone owners’ loyalty, especially among younger consumers....
...It has improved more recently along with a rising stock market, however, led by big tech names such as Nvidia and Google parent Alphabet....
...(Pimco) — The PagerDuty CEO who quoted Martin Luther King in her mass sacking email is v v v sorry....
...Huge volatility has stalked tech stocks this year, sparked by the prospect of rising interest rates and a slowdown in digital demand after a spike caused by the pandemic....
...The ebbing of the blue wave sharply reduces the likelihood of a big stimulus plan to help the economy recover from the pandemic....
...Veteran M&A lawyers such as Jacobs have decades of experience spent navigating the legal landmines underlining big deals, which will come in handy as he advises JPMorgan’s blue-chip clients on challenges...
...Losing the goodwill of powerful figures in Washington is the biggest threat to Mr Bezos’s plans, not just for Amazon but also his separate space exploration group, Blue Origin....
...Automation an automatic choiceJapan Inc has found a new purpose for automation: business continuity in the uncertain era of Covid-19....
...(FT) News round-up Germany’s blue-chip Dax to expand in wake of Wirecard debacle (FT) Stanhope merges with FWM to create $24.2bn wealth manager (FT) Google plans fiber-optic network to connect via Saudi...
...That’s good news (at least for now) for Amazon, Google and Facebook....
...Huawei and the new way (Lex) Saudi wealth fund explores investing in grocer Lulu (BBG) Silicon Valley start-up launches ‘Nespresso machine’ for whisky (FT) US yield curve steepens on possibility of ‘blue...
...Where all you can do after reading a tweet, or an article, is type the subject into Google and hope there’s more material out there waiting to be read....
...The work is described as a “two week timeboxed technical spike”, suggesting it is still at a preliminary phase, but with a deadline of mid-May....
...Harvard, Wharton and Insead are filled with 20-somethings who already have blue-chip CVs....
...At the same time gold and oil experienced record spikes....
...Fairphone is the only significant modular player after Google quit the scene, suspending its Project Ara in 2016....
...(v) Restructuring continues. Of course it does. But what about that Tesla, eh?...
...UK LFL sales growth was +3.9% ex splits (+3.0% 3Q) and +2.6% inc splits (+1.4% 3Q). RoI LFL sales growth was -1.0% ex splits and -2.4% inc splits....
...My belief is: we have 100 million people in vehicles today, that are sitting in Ford blue-oval vehicles....
...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....
...Maligned for their lack of profitability -- the Other Bets collectively lost Alphabet $3.4bn last financial year -- some of these blue-sky investments are beginning to show promise....
...In the past three years alone, Alphabet spent $13bn on these projects which include, along with Sidewalk Labs, their self-driving car unit Waymo and domestic-surveillance devices such as Google Home....
...Tractor company Deere & Co recently paid more than $300m for Blue River Tech-nologies, a California start-up that uses deep machine learning to automate farm work....
...Still, the recent December peak in Google searches for “market bubble” was the highest since 2006....
...“It’s a very confident step,” said Michael Harley, editor of consumer publications Kelley Blue Book and Auto Trader....
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