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...“While India has not gone the China way of blocking all foreign tech firms, this doesn’t mean it will allow monopolistic behaviour,” said Anirudh Suri, author of the book The Great Tech Game, who declined...
...Pekka Lundmark, chief executive of Finnish utility Fortum, will take over on September 1 from Rajeev Suri after questions about the network gear maker’s strategy multiplied in recent months. 3....
...It was while he was with Ms Dias that he entrenched himself in Chicago’s cultural and political scene....
...Tiger Global, which also used the Delores vehicle to bet against the Spain-listed DIA supermarket, has for several years employed a highly successful strategy of taking large stakes in disruptive ecommerce...
...Que la información publicada en el día de hoy por Gotham City Research LLC es rotundamente falsa. 2....
...● Heitman LLC, a global real estate investment management group, has hired David Stubbs as global macro strategy analyst. He joins from Roubini Global Economics....
...Nevertheless, this would be “at the lower end of the range between minus 15 per cent and minus 20 per cent” compared to 2010’s €2.7bn – a pro forma figure which takes into account last year’s spinoff of Dia...
...The job is seen as something of a poisoned chalice given the pressure from the activist shareholders which have been pushing for asset sales – Carrefour spun off Dia, its hard discount business this year...
...Alternatives to the Dia and property sell-off might yet emerge....
...Founded in Madrid in 1979, Dia, which had sales of €9.6bn last year, is the third largest so-called hard discount store after Lidl and Aldi....
...Investors will still vote on the proposed spin-off of Dia, Carrefour’s Spanish discount chain. That aspect of the restructuring has been broadly welcomed by shareholders....
...Carrefour said it would spin off Dia, giving investors shares in the hard discount business which will then be listed on the Madrid stock exchange....
...Carrefour, which mandated BNP Paribas, to assess whether it should keep its hard discount business – the Ed and Dia stores – is now studying the options presented by the bank....
...The group is now examining whether its Ed and Dia hard discount business should be sold and is sliding a rule over ways to realise value from its €17bn property portfolio....
...This has increased R&D productivity by nearly a third while reducing costs by 15 per cent, according to Mr Suri....
...Rajeev Suri, NSN chief executive, said the company was “proud to have been selected for the largest outsourced deployment of a wireless network in the US”....
...high profile non-profit initiatives that have emerged – such as Nothing But Nets – downplay the importance of other approaches that require just as much support, including drugs, insecticide spraying and diagnostics...
...The stake sold to Dubai just about doubles the equity that Och-Ziff is selling – 9.9 per cent to DIA and a similar amount to be publicly floated....
...At number two is Anne Dias Griffin, wife of Ken Griffin at Citadel – a Harvard alumna, who worked at Goldman Sachs in London before founding the $55m Aragon Global Management....
...a controlling interest in GMAC, the financing arm of GM, has been one of the most active investors in Japan, taking early stakes in a range of companies, such as Nagasakiya, the supermarket group, and Dia...
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