Hints and tips:
...Sales of the tech giant’s wares account for half of SoftwareOne’s billings. The board is right to seek a higher price....
...There’s also the temptation of what Williams describes as the “biggest drug of all” — the spotlight — as stardom and equal billing fight it out....
...KPMG is one of several big businesses in Hong Kong encouraging staff to vote in what the government is billing as a “patriots-only” election for the city’s legislature, as authorities worry about low turnout...
...“Everyone’s trying to cut their budgets,” said Amazon’s chief financial officer, Brian Olsavsky....
...This year, it recruited China M&A veteran Peng Yu from Ropes & Gray, whose key clients include Jack Ma’s Alibaba, and Brian Ho, who previously ran the corporate finance division at the Securities and Futures...
...Ukraine, Ukraine and more Ukraine Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine will get central billing in the Davos debates since many government officials from Kyiv will be present....
...The latest polls in Georgia, another key swing state, show Trump’s preferred gubernatorial candidate, David Perdue, trailing incumbent Brian Kemp by a double-digit margin ahead of another primary there next...
...The headliners deserve top billing, perfect advertisements for digital effects....
...Banks charge flat deal fees, rather than billing by the hour, making junior bankers’ work in effect free....
...“Investors have decided that The Trade Desk can grow into its valuation,” said Brian Wieser, head of business intelligence at GroupM, a media buying agency....
...Indeed, the company’s chief executive Brian Chesky had avoided a listing for years....
...Brian Spears, New Age Meats’ co-founder and chief executive, was sure that an MBA graduate would provide what he needed....
...The consulting firm has encouraged heavy austerity measures to reduce government debt while billing $72m in fees so far, at a monthly rate of more than $3m....
...Chief executive Brian Cassin said sales had risen as the group had expanded its data assets and introduced new products, which included the installation of data analysis platforms in 14 of its largest US...
...They have called on advertising groups to simplify their structures, be more transparent with their billing and deliver more efficient digital campaigns....
...“We found that lawyers designated the wrong task codes between 30 per cent and 40 per cent of the time on their bills to clients,” says Brian Kuhn, co-founder of IBM Watson Legal....
...Of course Brian Kelly named his dog Miles. Mr Kelly has been obsessing about air miles and credit card rewards since he was a child....
...to Brian Schwartz, analyst at Oppenheimer....
...“The flywheel of Prime is definitely working, it is as simple as that,” said chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky, as he explained why revenue growth had accelerated to its fastest rate in four years....
...Painting With lives up to the billing with crisp, bouncy production and tracks that sound Ramones-like in their self-alikeness, each one constructed around up-tempo Brian Wilson-style vocal harmonies....
...WPP won more than $3bn of net new billings in the third quarter — a result it described as “highly satisfactory”....
...“Marketers want to drive costs down,” says Brian Wieser, analyst at Pivotal Research....
...Brian Wieser, analyst at Pivotal Research, says the former structure meant that Publicis’s units “punched below weight in the media marketplace”....
...“There is the increasing use of technology in the job — electronic diaries, billing.”...
...Brian Murphy, head of lending at brokerage Mortgage Advice Bureau, said that the data suggested that households are “increasingly comfortable with managing their borrowing commitments”....
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