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...Google first faced claims that it might undermine its own web search service when it started to return direct answers with its Google Instant service 14 years ago....
...In the fourth quarter of 2023, Google Services made $76.3bn, with revenues primarily driven by advertising....
...There are several factors that give a need for clarity around Millennium’s succession strategy added urgency, as my colleague Ortenca Aliaj and I explore in this deep dive....
...Anyone whose regular childcare arrangements fell through was encouraged to call a back-up care provision service that would send a carer to the employee’s home, paid for by the company....
...“[In] financial services, the record is particularly poor, as scaling typically requires hiring a lot of people, which erodes culture and can lead to excess risk taking,” he told analysts....
...Don’t miss our deep dive on the parts of the financial system that could come under strain....
...He argues that people will be surprised just how quickly driverless services will arrive and then expand....
...Join us on October 17 at the Biltmore Mayfair in London as we gather the biggest names in M&A, private equity and corporate finance, including a deep-dive with FT journalists into short seller Hindenburg...
...Gomez is interested in applying large language models to business problems from banking and retail to customer service. “For us, it’s about lowering the barrier to access,” he says....
...Big companies started rethinking the risks of relationships with massive financial institutions peddling credit lines, interest-rate swaps and other services alongside sensitive M&A advice....
...FT Alphaville dives into its murky finances. And one smart listen: Gene sequencing company Illumina took a bet on cancer detection start-up Grail during the height of the biotech boom....
...I went to Oxford university this week for a buzzy event hosted by the head of its careers service, and author of the FT’s Dear Jonathan column, Jonathan Black....
...The UK’s National Health Service is participating in a clinical trial of the Galleri test involving 140,000 patients....
...But the $600bn investor has come to understand that private capital has slowly replaced part of the traditional banking sector, DD’s Sujeet Indap reported in this deep dive, and has formed more collegial...
...“We are seeing a lot of depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, eating disorders and self-harm,” says Dr Thomas Ricart, chief of adolescent services at Carrier....
...As pandemic restrictions have loosened, the demand for goods and services has rebounded but the supply of workers remains static....
...data, and from preventing users from taking their own data to other competing services....
...How to Get Our Future Back by Torsten Bell (Bodley Head)Flatlining wages, rising taxes, crumbling public services: just what on Earth is happening to Britain?...
...In this deep dive, my colleague Laurence Fletcher explores how Citadel has built its remarkable moneymaking machine....
...The company was incubated by Outblaze, where Siu’s wife had been head of HR....
...An investigation carried out by a coalition of public service broadcasters in California determined that Cal Fire has been unable to track precisely how much work has been completed....
...This company shares a Russian director with “Velada LLC”, which was granted a concession by the Assad regime in Syria to explore for oil and gas....
...One of the industry’s earliest major deals was H&F’s 2014 sale of a $750mn minority interest in Kronos, a seller of cloud-based time sheet services, to a group of buyers led by Blackstone, that were willing...
...Finback was considering buying a stake in Gideon Cyber Systems LLC, according to the term sheet....
...Cal Flyn Chico Hot Springs, Montana In Pray, Montana (pop. 800), Chico Hot Springs is something of a local institution....
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