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...With the new threat to sue from a coalition of US states, it’s going to be a tough call to make for the US regulator. DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...Tuesday’s judgement (case number 15-1189, Impression Products, Inc. v....
...Forwarded US drops cyberbombs on Isis The United States has opened a new line of combat against the Islamic State, directing the military’s six-year-old Cyber Command for the first time to mount computer-network...
...“This is an extraordinary and unjustified attempt to compel a third party not accused of wrongdoing to assist the government in obtaining information that the third party neither possesses nor controls,”...
...What’s also important is the handing over of control....
...As the state’s motoring regulator released its proposals, one immediately attracted controversy: the requirement that a human sit in the driver’s seat....
...Forwarded Google v Uber Alphabet is planning to launch a fleet of self-driving cars for hire next year, which will have it competing with Uber....
...The quote is lifted from Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta, a prescient graphic novel about the rise of the security state in the face of terror; typically for Banksy, it is a piece of second-hand pseudo-wisdom...
...That is Act V, and we are not there yet. For now we are still very definitely in the age of hydrocarbons....
...But we think for now that we still very much need the rule of law to keep all these incentives positive and honest. Related links: Why banking got out of control in the digital age – FT Alphaville...
...This may complicate life for makers of driverless cars: because of legal uncertainties and hugely variable driving environments, “self-driving” is likely to be offered as an optional setting for decades...
...The two big US defence contractors have all but sold out in recent years with the Russian state taking control of the ventures. Boeing still has a small stake in Sea Launch, a Swiss-based company....
...North America is the world’s biggest pest control market, accounting for half of total global revenues of £9bn....
...This year also sees the activation of a 1978 US federal ruling that musicians should be allowed to gain control of the US copyright of their recordings after 35 years....
...The second thing is not always in your control as an intern, but is critical: have a good manager....
...The Lee family is only listed as holding 4.7 per cent of Samsung Electronics, but Citi reckons it effectively controls 17.6 per cent of voting rights through stakes held by other Samsung Group subsidiaries...
...exports to the Gulf, as well as oil-producing states in Asia and Africa.”...
...The group has bought Tetengo Pest Control, the market leader in Mexico, for just under £4m, giving it a foothold in the burgeoning market for pest control in Latin America....
...United States v Apple, Inc et al is more than a US Justice department antitrust action against publishers allegedly colluding on ebook prices....
...And even if they don’t get it wrong, by the end of the day, they have exhausted all their mental energies, self-control and intellectual energy to solve problems that are not very interesting....
...“This fund is a good start, a step in the right direction to bring confidence back to the market,” said V Shankar, Standard Chartered’s chief executive for Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Americas....
...The case of OCZ is more complicated. The company has never made a profit and is switching from the memory modules of its early years on Aim to solid-state drives....
...(MDGs), the list of eight targets drawn up by the United Nations in 2000....
...Others, such as Sonos, already produce hardware like this, but Cisco has clearly decided that it needs full control of the end-to-end experience....
...“He could see around corners,” says Edward Matthews, one of Mr Greenberg’s most senior lieutenants at AIG and then at C.V. Starr, his investment vehicle....
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