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...Stumbling blocks: Trading app Robinhood will pay $65m to settle charges from securities regulators that it did not give customers the best prices, reported the Financial Times....
...Lemonade is aiming to shake up home insurance with promises to use artificial intelligence to settle claims quickly and a business model designed to ensure that charities receive some of the benefit when...
...The two companies are yet to settle on a price but the boards seem to agree that there are “a lot of reasons” to pursue a deal....
...Lumber Liquidators on Tuesday agreed to pay $33m to settle US charges of fraud over the company’s initial response to accusations that laminate flooring made in China did not comply with health regulations...
...DiClemente joined CBS earlier this year in the same role and before that worked as an analyst at Evercore, Nomura, Barclays and Lehman Brothers....
...“Here” is the dining room of the Dundas Arms, a picture-postcard expression of an English country inn, all neat gardens and mature trees, perched between a canal and the River Kennet....
...For [Mr Moonves] to agree to this, indicates a very strong determination by CBS not to settle easily....
...Mr Gordon, an independent CBS director, was among the named plaintiffs but he and some other board members ultimately decided to settle the litigation....
...Viacom, the owner of Nickelodeon, MTV and the Paramount film studio, is expected to discuss the proposal with CBS but is unlikely to settle for a deal that values it below its market value, said one person...
...Ms Kelly claimed in her 2016 memoir, Settle for More, that she too had been harassed by Mr Ailes early at the network — allegations he has denied....
...Twitter, however, is willing to settle for field goals rather than touchdowns. Email the Lex team at lex@ft.com...
...In an interview with CBS News’ 60 Minutes programme, Mr Cook said the real problem was with the high US taxes applied to repatriation of corporate profits....
...But once the stardust settles, their demands become exhausting....
...Sumner Redstone, who split CBS from Viacom in 2006 aged 82, is unusual among moguls in being heavily fixated on the short-term share price....
...Last month Simon & Schuster, the publisher owned by CBS, also struck a new agreement with Amazon that allowed the publisher to control pricing of its electronic editions....
...In the end, said CBS chief executive Les Moonves, it was “a lot of attention for a service that virtually nobody was using”. ……………….. The Disrupters — day two 8....
...“I had an old fashioned belief that you should not settle if you have done no wrong,” Mr Sargent said. “As it turns out, that is indeed old fashioned.”...
...The DoJ is expected to settle with HarperCollins, owned by News Corp; Simon & Schuster, part of CBS; and Hachette, owned by Lagardère of France....
...John Makinson, chief executive of Penguin, said the publisher had decided not to settle because it believed it had done nothing wrong....
...Some have resisted calls to settle....
...The class-B shares boast a free cash flow yield of over 10 per cent, ahead of peers (Time Warner, Walt Disney, News Corp and CBS), and a dividend yield over 2 per cent....
...“It shows the DoJ’s willingness to settle the case and implies that the potential Clean Water Act liability could be settled for $900m – well below the $3.5bn BP has provisioned for.”...
...- Corporate: AstraZeneca, Blinkx, CSR, Enterprise Inns, Ladbrokes, Travis Perkins, Wood Group, Stobart Group, Simon Group, KNOC/Dana....
...Leslie Moonves, chief executive of CBS, who vowed to extract cash payments from cable, telephone and satellite distributors in exchange for the right to carry the CBS television station signals, has struck...
...Related links: The AIG report – Paul Krugman / NY Times AIG and Greenberg settle dispute – FT Is AIG’s Benmosche staying or leaving? Both, maybe – FT Alphaville...
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