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...Traditional asset managers such as Franklin Templeton, AllianceBernstein and T Rowe Price have been racing to snap up alternative providers, including infrastructure, private equity and private credit funds...
...For Apple, giving users a choice of app stores and payment providers on iOS means unpicking a wide array of technical linkages between services, as well as publishing 600 new application programming interfaces...
...But as Google and other tech platforms grew, the goal became keeping you in — by cutting exclusive deals with other companies such as Apple and Samsung to be their search provider of choice....
...Products have been popping up and vanishing daily: in March, the average shelf life of a mortgage product was just 15 days, according to Moneyfacts, a data provider....
...In 2023 Silver Lake acquired software provider Qualtrics for more than $12bn and privatised European technology company Software AG for about €2.6bn....
...Water UK, which represents the industry, said: “Investors have choices and it should act as an alarm that investors consider the UK’s water industry as much riskier than elsewhere....
...But subordinating investment policy to tax minimisation is a choice, not a necessity....
...said this to the staff of the SEC and to Gensler, which is you think that Schwab, Fidelity, Vanguard, Morgan Stanley, E-TRADE, they need to be told where to send their retail orders, like they don’t have choice...
...Brussels blocked the deal a year later over concerns it would limit consumer choice and hurt innovation. Illumina appealed to the EU court but it sided with the commission in 2022....
...and bankruptcy information provider at about $1.3bn....
...“And [they are] emblematic of what the DMA is supposed to deliver when it comes to choice for consumers.”...
...With cyber attacks now a tool of choice for actors seeking to destabilise economies and democracies, the stakes are higher than ever....
...The FTC on Monday challenged the $24.6bn acquisition, alleging that it would eliminate competition between the two companies, increase prices for groceries and harm product quality and consumer choice....
...It was good, though more a matter of necessity than choice, that the company withdrew financial guidance for 2024, given that the investigation of the Alaska Airlines “door escape” is ongoing....
...Greater user choice may sound fine in theory, they argue, but it will challenge fundamental aspects of how services work....
...Joeli Brearley, founder of campaign group Pregnant Then Screwed, said: “Unless the funding to providers increases, they will have no choice but to continue charging high fees to make up the shortfall.”...
...The big three cloud computing providers have pledged to defend business customers from such intellectual property claims....
...Google began a pilot programme in November last year called user choice billing in partnership with Spotify, which gave users the choice between using Google Play’s billing system or paying Spotify directly...
...Gotham City, founded by Dan Yu, in 2014 exposed accounting problems at Spanish WiFi provider Gowex, which filed for bankruptcy soon afterwards....
...“This entire notion that users have choice . . . is complete bogus. Defaults are the only thing that matter in terms of changing search behaviour,” he added....
...She added that the two active ETF strategies create “an important new avenue of choice and further access to investing”....
...The Department for Work and Pensions is keen to encourage even more consumer choice, consulting on “pot for life” proposals that would let us choose a provider to look after our workplace pension contributions...
...I had to get to the venue for an interview with the CEO of HPE, the world’s second-largest server provider....
...The giant cloud providers, known in the industry as hyperscalers, enjoy enormous economies of scale....
...have little choice but to pay for exposure on big platforms such as Fidelity’s....
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