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...The Apple chief executive spent several days touring its factories and design studios, according to two people with knowledge of the trip....
...Kering also recently paid €3.5bn to acquire the fragrance brand Creed....
...As much as 95 per cent of major artists’ annual income can come from touring, says Goldman Sachs. Many musicians’ earnings collapsed during the pandemic....
...Harley fans could turn against heavy, gas-guzzling touring and cruising bikes for environmental reasons before then....
...Creed-star Michael B. Jordan (a minor investor in Premier League team Bournemouth) and Main Street Advisors are coming in too....
...invest in Alpine F1 team (FT) IBM will buy Software company Apptio for $4.6bn (Bloomberg) Prologis to buy industrial properties from Blackstone for $3.1bn (Reuters) Gucci owner to buy perfume maker Creed...
...and Kroll (Financial News London) CAB Payments targets £850mn valuation in rare bright spot for European IPOs (FT) Some Wall Street interns are raking in $120 an hour this summer (Bloomberg) Kering/Creed...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on March 23, 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...WaPo’s figures come from an article Cohan wrote for Inc, an American business magazine....
...Silicon Valley venture capital firms are touring the Middle East in search of funding....
...Ubisoft had been the only company to back Stadia with its top games, and its decision this month not to put the latest instalment of its hit game Assassin’s Creed on the cloud service was widely seen as...
...The California-based streaming service will launch three new mobile games next year based on Ubisoft’s games, including its most successful title Assassin’s Creed....
...And in men’s golf, top professionals go on touring into their forties, well past their prime years for winning Grand Slam tournaments....
...Rauschenberg, who died in 2008, had refused to sell or show the work during his lifetime, other than for his touring retrospective in 1997....
...“All the touring shows are down, but if Vegas remains open, we’re OK,” Lamarre reassured his wife....
...Perhaps one could start a specialist travel agency for such places, Dystopian Tours Inc, which would specialise in Graham Greene-style third world disaster areas....
...Electronic Arts, whose titles include the Fifa and Madden sports franchises, rose more than 5 per cent, while Ubisoft, maker of Assassin’s Creed, rose 8 per cent....
...Meanwhile, West’s high-concept touring merchandise of T-shirts and other basics drew scores of shoppers with each album release....
...Activision Blizzard is just the latest gaming company to face complaints about its treatment of female employees, including Assassin’s Creed developer Ubisoft, which admitted to “toxic behaviours” last year...
...The Josh Abbott Band, formed by a group of fraternity brothers in Lubbock, Texas, has spent the past decade touring the dusty plains of the region and finding success with twangy songs about cotton farms...
...“Arne loved every aspect of this business and relished time spent touring our hotels and meeting associates around the world....
...The conundrums of conlangs Klingon and Dothraki may have fascinated fans of Star Trek and Game of Thrones respectively, but constructed languages or “conlangs” are also big in video games from Assassin’s Creed...
...Joe Creed, vice-president of Caterpillar’s oil and gas and marine division, said the move “will expand our offerings to one of the broadest product lines in the well service industry”....
...A rack of top-end rental touring skis and boots stands in one corner. I walk outside, shed a layer and hike up into the mist....
...‘This is the way’ “This is the way” — a phrase borrowed from Disney’s The Mandalorian — is the mantra repeated on the forum, a creed posted alongside claims of trading gains, charts, and rallying calls...
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