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...The life of the real Richard Whittington has lessons more useful to today’s ambitious young financiers than reliance on the mouse-catching abilities of a pet cat. Make wealthy friends....
...Frederick Studemann is the FT’s literary editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...For reading, writing, streaming and emailing on the fly, it’s unmatched. iPad Air 5 from £569, apple.com A pet of a mouse This dinky mouse is quiet as a… sorry, couldn’t help myself....
...If you are looking to predict the shape of the US economic recovery — be it V, W, L or even K — don’t look at the markets....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on February 26, 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Yes, there were touristy horse-drawn carriages and expensive pet boutiques (“la mode pour votre chien”) but there were also snotty five-year-olds in snowsuits and families bearing grocery bags....
...The plastic hot dog I ate at the Greyhound café in Charlotte was worse than Oberlin College’s dining halls. Who takes the Hound?...
...There is a mystery at PetSmart, the private-equity-backed pet store with $8.2bn of debt, all of which is trading below 80 cents on the dollar....
...Another shows an animated pet cat or dog that thrives when you reach your step goals, like a fitness-focused Tamagotchi (whatever it takes to get you off the sofa, I suppose)....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 4 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...It has launched a subscription service for pet owners and a rewards programme offering discounts on retailers and restaurants....
...More boutiques will be added to its 43-strong US chain; New York is being considered for new Nespresso cafés, currently being piloted in London....
...To take a recent example, ticket sales for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dropped by an astonishing 68.4 per cent on its second weekend, as comic-book fans returned to their dens....
...Bars and cafés are not the same Favourite places ● Le Pot du Clape A traditional soup café where the menu changes daily and features fresh, local ingredients ● The Saturday morning market, in the grand...
...“It is quite in vogue to love animals,” says Lauren Pears, owner of Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium, London’s first (and oversubscribed) cat café, which opened in March in Bethnal Green, east London....
...EA shuttered the Pet Society studio last summer as the console-games publisher continued its own faltering efforts in mobile and social gaming....
...Britain’s seemingly insatiable appetite for coffee has lifted sales by a third at Benugo, the coffee bar and restaurant chain, that serves visitors to London’s V&A museum, the BFI Southbank and Edinburgh...
...“Even though this swift exodus may soon be followed by a ‘V’ shaped recovery, should a resolution be forthcoming, a lot of technical damage has already been done,” he added....
...London boasts the bars round Old Street’s Silicon Roundabout while Berlin has the St Oberholz café, but in Stockholm the social hub for the high-tech start-up scene is a quarterly poker game....
...Another big category is household pets – which is forbidden on Craigslist in the US but which the duo has embraced wholeheartedly....
...It will also make the V&A the de facto hub of the area. “We wanted to make the V&A completely accessible,” Levete explains, “to make it easy just to drift in.”...
...V.G. Siddhartha is a reluctant interviewee. Initially rebuffing a request from the Financial Times, he politely e-mailed: “I don’t think I have got any great story at this time.”...
...We encourage everybody to eat in our café and mix with others in the business to share ideas. It sparks creativity and innovation....
...More than 200m people play games on Facebook every month, with a handful of games – FarmVille, Treasure Isle, Café World, Mafia Wars and PetVille – accounting for more than half of those numbers....
...In internet cafés outside the big cities, however, the absence of Google.cn would barely register....
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