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...Industry executives say privately they are braced for the value of sports rights to fall, as TV companies count the cost of the shutdown....
...The casualties include companies like Foodpanda and Uber, which have both fallen far behind due to the ballooning costs of competition....
...Tusa, who was previously co-head of UK corporate broking at Deutsche Bank, will be based in London....
...Get in touch with us: Due.Diligence@FT.com When failure is fatal The casualties are piling up....
...Pitaro is a close ally of Bob Iger, the media company’s chief executive. (FT). Rockefeller Capital Management has hired Christopher Randazzo as head of wealth management and technology & operations....
...Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF, even joined the company’s board....
...Warren Estey will leave his role as co-head of US equity capital markets to become the bank’s head of Americas natural resources....
...Pearl Continental Hotel, a luxury hotel owned by a local company, stands on a hill overlooking the port. The pier is dotted with Pakistani naval and coast guard ships....
...(FT) Diageo’s India deal delivers a booming hangover When the world’s largest liquor company met Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya — the “King of Good Times” — they busted out the champagne....
...Research by Siemens, for example, indicates that wearing a head-mounted display slows down rather than speeds up manual tasks....
...Only 0.5 per cent of the US labour force is employed in industries that did not exist in 2000 and, even in Silicon Valley, only 1.8 per cent of workers are employed in new industries....
...However, TPG had to overcome tough questions about the performance of TPG V, its boom-era buyout fund, which invested $15.5bn but suffered some high-profile casualties....
...On Monday, shares in Goodrich Petroleum, a small oil and gas producer, fell 30 per cent, making it the day’s most spectacular casualty, but much larger companies were hit too....
...Indian e-commerce — James Crabtree, Mumbai 2014 was the year Indian ecommerce finally grew up....
...It is close to finalising the purchase of a 24 per cent stake in Jet Airways, the Indian airline....
...“There is an acute problem of overcapacity in an Indian brokerage industry which is already one of the most competitive in the world, and we are seeing a lot of retail players closing or downsizing,” says...
...its eagerness to mess around with India’s domestic politics,” said Anand Sharma, commerce and industry minister....
...His Rolodex includes Myanmar’s Ang Sang Suu Kyi and Indian industrialist Ratan Tata....
...It said it expected revenue growth of 6-10 per cent for the current year, below the 12-14 per cent estimate of the Indian IT industry as a whole....
...Who knows, the Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg of energy may be out there somewhere, working on the idea that will turn the industry on its head....
...continental Europe and the UK....
...Indian experience over the past two decades demonstrates this conclusively....
...And Indian equities, though still lagging behind their peers, saw a “massive rally”, said BofA....
...Between 1982 and 1985 she was the head of the BBC’s engineering computer services....
...In India, Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries spent close to $3bn last year on stakes in energy producers such as Atlas Energy and Pioneer Natural Resources of the US....
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