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...Brooke Masters and Harriet Agnew report on asset managers pouring money into tech platforms, in a bid to emulate the success of BlackRock’s software as a service....
...Brooke Masters says Apple remains dug in for a long war. 2....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...Then in 1977 came two Supreme Court decisions, first Brunswick Corp. v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat and then Continental TV v. GTE Sylvania....
...addiction The risk of boom turning to bust Brooke Masters: Debt v equity — why have IPOs fallen?...
...(Bloomberg) US oil driller Continental Resources has hired Rory Sabino, formerly of Bank of America Merrill Lynch....
...Supermarkets across the US, Britain and continental Europe suffered smaller declines. Meanwhile, Amazon shares notched up a 3 per cent gain, adding about $13bn to its market capitalisation....
.... ———————- Facebook v Snap Facebook | Snap Market capitalisation: $395bn | $31bn Funds raised at IPO: $16bn | $3.4bn Daily active users, 2016: 1.23bn | 158m Revenue, 2016: $27.6bn | $404m Profit, 2016...
...Amazonfresh v Ocado Brooke Masters has been comparing Amazon’s Fresh grocery delivery service, launched in the UK this week, with her regular home deliveries from Ocado. Fresh had one key flaw....
...Inside story on Google’s Euro VC efforts Murad Ahmed has been delving into why Google Venture’s European VC fund has disappeared and finds there were frustrations for the continental team over stalled deals...
.... …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Ben Hall, world news editor, picks: • Isis Inc: how oil fuels jihadi terrorists by Erika Solomon, Guy Chazan and Sam Jones• Why China’s ‘migrant miracle’ is...
...Some analysts suggest it could exit these stores, or alternatively, convert them to the multi-price Dealz brand it trades under in continental Europe....
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...(FT) Journalism v Silicon Valley The media has lost control of production and distribution to the opaque algorithms of Google and Facebook....
...NYSE Euronext’s multi-sided business comprises Liffe, the London derivatives exchange, as well as markets in North America and continental Europe....
...He said he had come to believe that the continental European governance model of having a supervisory board made up of non-executives sitting on top of an executive board was not ideal....
...There’s a comfy pair of lightweight trainers (£110) in an electric blue-and-purple material that looks like the carpet from the lobby of a Premier Inn, and a pair of knee-length basketball shorts (£33) in...
...UK banks may face more transition issues, and bankers at continental European banks said they hoped for similar arrangements among other governments....
...Historically, the UK and US have sought the narrowest definitions while the Continental Europeans have argued for flexibility....
...These include UK/Prussia v France at Waterloo in 1815, UK/France v Germany between 1914 and 1918 and France/Germany v UK in Brussels ever since 1973....
...Although there are branded fuels such as Total’s Excellium and Royal Dutch Shell’s V-Power, no one is ever going to wait in line for hours to buy the new product....
...International companies, including the UK’s BAE Systems and Cobham, face similar pressures after having spent the past five years investing heavily in the US to escape the looming defence cuts in much of continental...
...The Basel III global banking reform package includes a standardised leverage ratio despite heavy criticism from continental regulators that argue that it penalises low-risk high-volume retail and corporate...
...Brooke Masters is the FT’s chief regulation correspondent...
...US and continental European regulators are expected to push for changes that would ease the impact on their banks, while the UK, which pioneered the first national liquidity rules in 2009, is said to support...
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