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...It was there that he put together his band, The Dji-Kins, and made his first recordings for Pathé Marconi — “A Were We Coco” still sounds brightly irresistible....
...Reith making a new world: Cecil Lewis, a handsome 20-something flying ace married to the daughter of an exiled White Russian general; Arthur Burrows, a former teacher turned wireless expert; Guglielmo Marconi...
...Mr Musk’s testy sparring online with notable short-sellers, including David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital, has become one of the fiercest rivalries in capital markets. 3....
...In a fascinating chapter, “Reverberation and Decay”, Stubbs looks at the father of wireless telegraphy, Guglielmo Marconi, who believed that sound never died once it had been generated....
...Mr Womack adds: “Take the case of Marconi where some employees lost their life savings when the shares fell from over £12 to under 30p in 2001. Then they lost their jobs as the business restructured.”...
...The last home he sold on the Strand — a one-bedroom, upper-floor flat in Marconi House, opposite Somerset House — worked out at about £1,300 per sq ft....
...With Britain’s referendum on EU membership just weeks away, David Cameron has appealed to British history to make the case for the UK staying inside the EU....
...However, David Walker, a director at Cerulli Associates, the research company, doubted whether the findings would push institutional investors to ditch large funds....
...He has previously worked at BAE Systems, Eaton Corporation and GEC-Marconi....
...Cooper’s law shows that so-called “spectral efficiency” has doubled every two-and-a-half years since Guglielmo Marconi made his first transatlantic wireless transmission in 1910....
...While security was discussed it was a secondary consideration to price, with Huawei offering a cheaper deal than UK-based rival Marconi....
...Its UK-based rival Marconi lobbied hard against the deal, urging ministers to instead back it as a British company....
...Mr Lockwood, who has previously worked at BAE Systems, Thales and Marconi, will succeed Peter Hill, who stepped down suddenly in November because of ill health....
...This is why the final volume of David Parker’s official history of privatisation is so timely....
...“I think the shipyard is once again becoming the kernel for a new period of innovation in Belfast,” says David McVeigh, Harland and Wolff’s sales manager....
...Midlands Bank, Marconi, Emap and Stagecoach are among those to have come a cropper with ill-fated acquisitions....
...Openings include Starwood Hotels’ W on Leicester Square, Corinthia Hotels’ relaunch of the Metropole on Whitehall (renamed Corinthia Hotel London), and Spanish group Sol Melia’s ME Hotel at Marconi House...
...Mr Devaney, currently chairman of National Express, will replace David Turner after Cobham’s annual general meeting on May 6....
...Telent is the former services business of GEC Marconi. It is now owned by Pension Corporation, the Guernsey-based retirement funds manager....
...However, even these performances were better than that of Marconi, which crashed spectacularly at the start of the decade....
...In 2001 the site was earmarked for a £120m high-tech campus for Marconi, the telecommunications company, which not long after suffered a financial collapse....
...Maybe Sir David Walker’s review of the corporate governance of financial institutions, which will make its first pronouncements this week, will cast light on this....
...In the technology bubble of the 1990s, the shareholders in Marconi notoriously egged on the UK company in its catastrophic US telecommunications acquisitions....
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