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...See Tickets, which was part of Vivendi’s live entertainment arm Vivendi Village, would be the latest in a series of asset disposals by the French media giant....
...Yahoo, one of the internet’s oldest and best-known brands that had once been a dotcom stock market darling, is planning to return to the public markets....
...“Instacart has characteristics that became hated in the last two years: grocery, delivery, logistics or operations — all these companies used to be darlings and became very shunned,” said the head of a large...
...The disposal of the retail unit, which has lower margins compared with its international car distribution arm, will help improve the group’s profitability....
...It started as an insurgent start-up that soon became the darling of the nascent computing scene....
...That’s almost three times Apple’s margins, and up there with stock market darling Nvidia. How do they make so much money?...
...In Italy, Vodafone has also held informal talks about a potential merger or partial disposal of assets with Swisscom-owned Fastweb, according to people close to the two companies....
...Bob Iger, Disney chief executive, this year openly pondered whether some of its assets still fit within the company, prompting speculation that he was considering disposals....
...Large companies still have plenty of other weapons at their disposal, as a parallel case involving a different medical sensor on the Apple Watch shows....
...Its efforts to realise cash through disposals are set to begin with Epic, a California-based digital reading platform, which it acquired in 2021 for $500mn....
...Signa Holding, the central company, recently filed for administration....
...On Wednesday, the one-time pandemic darling acknowledged the new reality by announcing a partnership with food delivery service Uber Eats....
...The company has said its talc is asbestos free and had not caused cancers but argues that settling current and future claims in the bankruptcy system would be preferable to fighting talc claims in the courts...
...The scheme enabled the company to divide itself into two separate businesses before placing one of them, Bestwall, which contained all the asbestos claims, into bankruptcy....
...The radioactive liquid is prepared for disposal in a five-stage Advanced Liquid Processing System....
...The disposals “will aim to minimise the potential for any adverse impact on market functioning by taking into account daily liquidity and trading conditions”, the regulator added....
...analyst at AllianceBernstein, believes the recent acquisition makes it more likely Aldi would look to buy stores from Kroger or Albertsons when they merge, if competition regulators tell them they must make disposals...
...Uber has reported after-tax profits in several quarters before, though only thanks to gains on disposals or revaluations of its equity investments....
...Fernandez, MSCI’s chief executive for more than two decades, built the company into a Wall Street darling by offering a slew of market indices....
...The company said it accepted the MAS decision on lapses....
...Claimants allege that J&J’s talc-based baby powder contains traces of asbestos that caused their cancers and the company had lied about the safety of the product....
...If stocks fall from their lofty valuations, a handy funding source is at your disposal....
...The fund has in its top holdings agriculture business Deere, water company Xylem, and Darling Ingredients. Some biodiversity funds try to take a mix and match approach....
...J&J, which began selling baby powder in 1894, denies its talc-based products contain traces of asbestos and cause cancer....
...Since then, private market valuations at many start-ups that were once the darlings of Silicon Valley investors have been battered....
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