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...Technology company Cisco recently sent 17 employees to Rhodes for three months in a collaboration with the local government there....
...Grant Wardell-Johnson, global tax policy leader at KPMG, said: “There are considerable difficulties in disclosing tax numbers but direction of travel is towards greater transparency so companies need to...
...New parks and plazas sprang up. There were iconic images of Olympic divers with the basilica of the Sagrada Família in the background....
...According to the aviation consultant Chris Tarry, business travel next year might be little more than 30 per cent of the 2019 total....
...His death drew tributes from colleagues, competitors and fellow business leaders including GM chief executive Mary Barra and Cisco chief Chuck Robbins....
...California-based company BlueJeans has almost 15,000 business customers and competes with companies such as Cisco’s Webex and Microsoft’s Skype as well as newer rival Zoom, whose traffic over US networks...
...Mr Vestberg, working from home, talked to the Financial Times over the video tool, which will be plugged into Verizon’s enterprise product set and compete with better known video apps, including Cisco’s...
...After the business was sold to Cisco Systems a decade later, he went on to become a vice-president at the networking equipment company....
...Much will depend on how long global travel and trade remain frozen....
...The group, he said, planned to apply its “limited cash” to Wanda Plazas, the signature complex of movie theatres, shopping and residences that Wanda has rolled out in cities across provincial China....
...But there is no disguising the direction of travel....
...and Flying J Travel Plaza brands....
...December was appointed by then President-elect Trump as a special adviser overseeing the overhaul of federal regulations, emphasised in the announcement that the sale would not include the former Trump Plaza...
...When US President Donald Trump first tried to implement a travel ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries in January, the reaction from corporate leaders was swift....
...Mr Wang has so far adopted the same Kong-like bluntness in entertainment as he has in Chinese property, building a swath of Wanda Plaza shopping and leisure centres across the country....
...“Luxury brands are now competing with the plastic surgeon and the luxury travel agent,” says Mr Rambourg....
...Last year, a report from Cisco and the International Institute of Management Development concluded that “digital disruption . . ....
...In San Francisco, this takes the form of a plaza with a fountain and a large wall covered in greenery, where acoustic musicians will be scheduled to play at weekends....
...Yet some accuse the chief executive of InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG), operator of brands such as Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza, of failing to spot the disruption coming up from behind in the hotel industry...
...This would see the distance a car could travel on a charge rise from 150 miles currently to 375 miles by 2025, assuming no other improvements are made to the car or the battery technology....
...“If you live in Santa Cruz and your office is in Silicon Valley, it’s 90 minutes of travel each way.”...
...In 2013 it bought one of Manhattan’s most famous office blocks, One Chase Manhattan Plaza, for $725m....
...Meanwhile, Cisco shares jumped nearly 10 per centafter market following better than expected results and a significant buyback programme, and Tesla shares soared on an upbeat delivery forecast....
...Michael Lopez Director, global inclusion and diversity, Alcoa Inc 95. Heather Melville Director, strategic partnerships, Royal Bank of Scotland 96....
...EasyJet (Travel & Tourism) 29. Burberry (Retail) 30. Whole Foods Market (Retail) 31. InterContinental Hotels (Travel & Tourism) 32. Nike (Retail) 33. Marriott International (Travel & Tourism) 34....
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