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...“We are taking external funding to increase flexibility and optionality as we expand on our core strategic focus areas,” said Andrew Conrad, chief executive of Verily....
...Apart from a brief rally in 2010, the downturn in the fortunes of shipyards and shipping groups has endured for longer than many expected....
...The collaboration is another sign of the growing importance of Google’s Life Sciences team, headed by former healthcare executive Andrew Conrad....
...South Korea’s shipyards must choose whether to allow a small but growing rival (China) to take control of key technology, or risk overpaying for it themselves....
...Conrad Voldstad: Critics of credit default swaps have got it wrong There has been so much criticism of credit default swaps (CDS) of late that you would think no one was using them any longer, notes Voldstad...
...A former reporter for the BBC’s Panorama programme and a celebrated chronicler of wickedness and folly in previous books on Robert Maxwell and Conrad Black, among others, Bower has found no such targets...
...But Dr Conrad Murray is now preparing to help police with their inquiries into the singer’s death....
...Container shipping is suffering from declining traffic and excess capacity as huge new ships ordered during the sector’s boom years are delivered from shipyards....
...The parent company, which was owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp in the 1980s, is still suffering from its years of mismanagement by Conrad Black, under whom the group was known as Hollinger International...
...The only deal by Carlyle in the region has been last year’s acquisition of a 50 per cent stake in Turkey’s TVK Shipyard for an undisclosed sum....
...Conrad Gann, chief operating officer of TrimTabs, said he foresaw more redemptions in the first quarter of 2009....
...international private equity company to have set up a dedicated Middle East and North Africa fund, has been looking at deals for more than a year but has so far only acquired a 50 per cent stake in Turkey’s TVK Shipyard...
...“I don’t think there is much point in starting a Conrad Black defence fund because a lot of his friends, especially in America, have bailed,” Mr Steyn says....
...Conrad Black once enjoyed the finer things in life: a Park Avenue apartment and trips around the world in his corporate jet....
...FT: Conrad Black? MR ZELL: Short. FT: The US Dollar? MR ZELL: Hold. FT: Barack Obama? MR ZELL: Probably long. FT: The Chicago Mercantile Exchange? MR ZELL: Long. FT: Rudy Giuliani?...
...“Courts have a duty to ensure that litigants, and the courts themselves, are not subjected to frivolous, expensive class actions,” said Robin Conrad of the Nat-ional Chamber Litigation Center....
...Luxury hotels is one of the most profitable categories and upscale brands are expanding into the US, including Shangri-La, Mandarin Oriental and Hilton’s Conrad brand....
...The company’s Pascagoula and Gulfport shipyards were particularly badly hit by the 25ft storm surge that battered the Mississippi coastline....
...Alstom will invest €350m in its loss-making St Nazaire and Lorient shipyards in western France as part of a joint venture deal with Norway’s Aker Yards, which takes a 75 per cent stake....
...HHC’s lead adviser was UBS, with Banc of America Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley as co-advisers....
...Sunday Express The Ministry of Defence faces an investigation into a payment of £84m made to the shipyard Swan Hunter....
...The truth Helm recounts is much more gripping than the fiction we have been reading about spies since Joseph Conrad wrote The Secret Agent....
...Thales, the French defence group, firmed another 3.6 per cent to €29.43 amid continued speculation of a tie-up between the company and DCF, the state-owned shipyard company....
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