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...There are 80 so-called ‘unicorns’ — private companies worth more than $1bn — in the Asia-Pacific region outside China, according to CB Insights, But none has the scale of giants such as Alibaba, the Chinese...
...“The downside is, at some point, that humanity loses control of the technology it is developing,” Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, bluntly told CBS News....
...Sunday Ticket is a subscription service which allows viewers to pay to watch out-of-market NFL games not available on their local CBS or Fox affiliate channels, a quirk of the geographically diverse US landscape...
...Last year alone, funding into autonomous vehicle companies exceeded $12bn, according to CB Insights. Development has been much slower than expected too....
...Tiger Global is also a prolific investor in private markets and holds stakes in more billion-dollar private start-ups than any other firm, according to CB Insights....
...This CB Insights chart is going to look a lot grimmer by the second quarter, and we suspect there will be more dreaded down rounds and lay-offs to come....
...This ever-increasing choice of content means less of an audience for the Emmys and other mainstays of the traditional US broadcasters, CBS, NBC, ABC and FOX....
...Abrams denied that claim to CBS News. A representative for Bezos did not return a request for comment....
...CB Insights reckons he is disrupting eight industries.” Tech tools — Ninja Foodi Will the current kitchen craze for bread makers, multi-cookers and air fryers last?...
...the two decades since it was founded in 2001, Tiger Global has become one of the most profitable tech investors, holding stakes in more billion-dollar private start-ups than any other firm, according to CB...
...The Alexa voice-enabled product can make video calls and stream music and video content, including Amazon Prime, Spotify, Showtime and CBS All Access....
...WeWork prepared for the manoeuvre last month by changing from a corporation to a limited liability company, called the We Company MC LLC....
...Big US tech companies spent nearly $5bn on healthcare acquisitions between 2012 and September 2018, says CB Insights....
...Matthew Federman started out writing episodes for a reboot of TV classic Charlie’s Angels and, a decade later, is filming a CBS series in which an art thief and an antiques expert join forces to fight a...
...masterpieces such as the TWA terminal at John F Kennedy International airport and the Gateway Arch in St Louis, or Mies-type minimalism as at the John Deere headquarters in Moline, Illinois, and “Black Rock”, the CBS...
...He ran CBS and Viacom imperiously and was wary of any challengers....
...$500m, including two $1bn fundraisings: SoftBank’s investment in share office space provider WeWork, and the Saudi Public Investment Fund’s stake in electric carmaker Lucid Motors, according to a PwC and CB...
...(FT) Activist investor Elliott to buy Travelport in $4.4bn deal (FT) Tesla CEO Elon Musk: The 60 Minutes Interview (CBS) Interserve in financial rescue talks with creditors (FT) Activist investor Elliott...
...CB&I did not respond to a Financial Times enquiry regarding the Subsea 7 news....
...In the event, Viacom did not outgrow CBS....
...CBS reported higher third-quarter revenue and net income thanks to growth in affiliate and subscription fees, which offset drops in advertising and content licensing revenue....
...“Cord-cutting is an opportunity here at CBS.” Other media companies, though, are attempting to send investors the same message....
...Hulu has been best known as a way to catch up on broadcast TV shows that viewers missed, Mr Cryan said, but other US media companies such as NBC and CBS are increasingly building their own standalone apps...
...Lilly, have collectively put $92.7m into Gritstone through its private second funding round, or more than three times this year’s average healthcare start-up series B fundraising of $28.1m, according to CB...
...“The rationale behind this decision was PwC Audit LLC’s verification of misrepresented financial information in the financial statements of [PrivatBank,]” the central bank said....
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