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...With Bill Gates in tow as a regular keynote speaker, the technology event exploded in popularity in the 1980s....
...Airbnb lowers internal valuationThe short-term rental site has lowered its internal valuation to $26bn — a 16 per cent drop compared to its most recent funding round....
...Hertz: buyer beware The last time we visited rental car company Hertz, things were getting a little out of hand....
...In the event, Viacom did not outgrow CBS....
...Many, like Sajwani, are forging ahead in the brave new world that follows formerly inconceivable political events....
...Recession, or some geopolitical event, hits earnings and the valuations investors are prepared to pay....
...“Organisations that fail to embrace these changes risk going the way of the video-rental store,” says Greenwich’s Mr McCollum....
...Aggreko is known for providing power for glitzy events such as the Edinburgh military tattoo and Eurovision Song Contest....
...The fate of Borders is just the latest event to show how the recession has changed the face of the US high street....
...On Tuesday, regulators signed off on the deal with a whiff of trepidation, setting in motion events that will invariably reshape the media industry....
...For Netflix, the pay-TV industry is as ripe for revolution as the DVD rental market was a decade ago....
...Hollywood suffers from a sharp drop in DVD sales, long the profit-driver for studios, and now faces stiff competition from low-cost rental vendors such as Redbox....
...Silver Bait LLC produces fishing worms by the millions. But that’s only the beginning of what it produces....
...“Everybody knew it was a hairy deal, a big risk,” another person close to the events says. “Initially everyone had been so comfortable with it....
...Event-driven funds, which include activists and those betting on mergers and acquisitions, also recovered well from sharp falls in August as concerns about deals falling through abated....
...He points to the test case of US car rental group Alamo National....
...In the event, it sold the business to rival buy-out group CVC....
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