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...In the UK, TV bosses at ITN and Channel 4, which is cutting 200 jobs, have decried the worst advertising market since 2008....
...The merged entity would operate more than 5,000 stores and approximately 4,000 retail pharmacies while employing nearly 700,000 staff across 48 states, the FTC said....
...Revenue in the UK for the 2022-23 year grew 13 per cent, to £4.84bn, while revenue in Switzerland increased 20 per cent, to £772mn....
...Its pipeline of 28 hotels is formidable even by industry leaders’ standards (Four Seasons, a behemoth with $4.3bn in revenue in 2022, has around 50)....
...Noom has 3,000 health coaches worldwide that are assigned to hundreds of clients at a time and expected to respond to messages within 48 hours using the in-app service....
...Last week, OpenAI revealed its new language model, GPT-4, which users can access through a premium version of ChatGPT and via Microsoft’s search engine Bing....
...Worldwide, Meta and Alphabet’s share declined 1 percentage point to 49.5 per cent this year....
...By far the most important is The Worldwide Production Services LLC (WWPS), a Toronto-based film company that holds digital distribution rights to the ILBE-produced Puffins and Arctic Friends series....
...A local government website for the province where the development is located reported that 30bn yuan ($4.7bn) had been invested in the project. Oaktree declined to comment....
...Thoma Bravo had taken the company private with Silver Lake for $4.5bn in 2016 and relisted it in 2018....
...Blue Prism has about 1,000 staff worldwide....
...Lex says the apparently hardline action loses its bite on closer inspection. 4....
...Under Mr Al Mubarak, one of Abu Dhabi’s most powerful officials, CFG has gone on to buy into clubs worldwide....
...GFG employs 35,000 people worldwide. In the UK, it is the third-largest steel producer, employing about 3,000 people, with a further 2,000 employed in engineering and manufacturing....
...Our analysis of Tesla’s bet says that experts in corporate treasury management think the move makes almost no sense. 4....
...The market for smart devices is expected to grow 14.4 per cent a year to 1.4bn shipped units in 2023, according to the International Data Corporation....
...Now Silver Lake’s investment values the business at $4.8bn. Not bad....
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...The $4.3bn-in-assets group stopped reporting its performance....
...Europe has proposed nearly 200 new tech policies in the first half of 2019, nearly half of new regulations worldwide, according to a global survey. 3....
...The tech week ahead Tuesday — Europe's top court is set to rule whether Google has to remove links to sensitive information worldwide or just in Europe in a case which pits privacy rights against freedom...
...Occidental’s shares declined 4 per cent to $59.81 soon after the market opened and Paul Sankey, an analyst at Mizuho, wrote in a note: “We think the bid is a very bad idea....
...Google is set to appeal against the record €4.34bn fine it received for abusing the dominant market position of its Android mobile operating system, in the latest step in its eight-year antitrust battle...
...More than half of worldwide internet traffic is now on mobile devices, 80 per cent of which run on Android, providing a showcase for Google services and mobile apps....
...Between 2013 and 2017 — long before the onset of the trade war with the US — worldwide net FDI inflows to China fell steadily....
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