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...One IPO banker, who is not involved in the deal, said that the listing would “not define the entire IPO market — but a bad performance certainly wouldn’t help as we think about tech IPOs in general”....
...“A strong reception for Arm is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for VC-backed companies to come to market,” said Eric Liaw, a general partner at VC group IVP....
...Yield was hard to find and cash was abundant, so borrowers’ lawyers were able to take the offensive, as a general rule....
...That was the date, six months after its initial public offering, that its cornerstone investors were allowed to sell the stock....
...In the 1990s, 51 prime contractors worked for the Pentagon. This has shrunk to five highly diversified companies: Lockheed, Raytheon Technologies, Boeing, General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman....
...India has also committed to buy armed MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones, produced by US contractor General Atomics....
...“We were frankly not anticipating the speed of the recovery we have seen in some key geographies and definitely the UK,” said Anabel Diaz Calderon, Uber’s regional general manager for Europe, the Middle...
...US defence contractors Lockheed Martin and Raytheon also report earnings as demand for their products surges. 3M, Johnson & Johnson and General Electric also report....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on August 9 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...The “Big Five” consists of Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics, which have a combined market capitalisation of $470bn....
...It wasn’t on their radar,” said Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, whose members the inquiry has previously criticised for their own failings on the night of the fire....
...At one point the lossmaking group had a market valuation higher than Volkswagen, Ford and General Motors....
...When it comes to fleet EV sales, General Motors and Ford are for now concentrating more on commercial operators than rental companies....
...The judge said the ruling would not take effect while gig economy workers and others, including California’s attorney-general, pursued an appeal....
...Briefly Defence contractor Qinetiq is not so lucky....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 27 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...Fix Price, whose business model is akin to that of the UK’s B&M and Dollar General in the US, has prospered as real incomes have fallen 11 per cent since 2013, including a 3.4 per cent slump last year....
...“You may think that Uber and the GMB don’t seem like obvious allies but we’ve always agreed that drivers must come first,” said Jamie Heywood, Uber’s regional general manager for northern and eastern Europe...
...The TSE’s placations of Toshiba were based around an unspoken pact that neither it, nor the company, nor Japan in general could possibly afford for such a cornerstone corporate name to be unlisted....
...Independent contractors have none of these rights....
...They also launched multiple spear-phishing attacks targeting energy, aerospace and technology companies, as well as the US state department, the US defence department and other US defence contractors, the...
...Another KKR partner who is not on the Axel Springer board weighed in too: General David Petraeus, the former head of the CIA, who joined the private equity group in 2013....
...Even critics of Effissimo admit, however, that its campaign against Toshiba has clear distinctions from its previous fights with Japan Inc....
...California voters’ decision to let Uber and other gig economy companies continue to treat their workers as independent contractors has dealt a crushing blow to campaigners and legislators and paved the way...
...The court case was brought by the state’s attorney-general who sought to enforce the new law against the tech companies....
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