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...Symbolically, the sale of the Orioles reflects a wider shift in US sports ownership, as Wall Street titans take the reins from local dynasties....
...There was a March release date given for Gran Turismo 7 and the unfortunate slippage of Grand Theft Auto V from November to March. Axios has more....
...The merger of Sinochem Group and ChemChina into a titan with $152bn sales represents the sweeping consolidation taking place in China....
...Related Links:CNBC clash of the titans: Kernen vs Sorkin — FT AlphavilleThe European PMIs look troubling — FT Alphaville...
...It is so successful that index funds will soon face the issue that confronts all titans, from Standard Oil to Facebook: their outsized impact on business and society....
...These included acquisitions such as Ewos, a Norwegian salmon feed company, and Diamond V, a manufacturer of yeast culture products to aid animal health....
...Job Moves Rio Tinto has appointed director Simon Thompson as its new chairman, after seriously flirting with the idea of naming Xstrata man Mick Davis to the role....
...Breaking the tech titan’s dress code in his suit and tie, he grinned and, unlike his biggest rival, made no grand proclamations about his company’s world-changing potential....
...“There’s unlikely to be the big titan v titan litigation that we saw in the smartphone wars.”...
...The court’s decision today in Starr International Company, Inc. v. the United States recognizes that AIG’s shareholders are not entitled to compensation for that decision, and that the Federal Reserve’s...
...Producer: So I’ve optioned a real-life David v Goliath struggle from London, England, where an Average Joe stock analyst is battling Citi over the fate of mines and trading empire Glencore....
...Social media now sends almost as much traffic to news sites as Google — 36 per cent v 41 per cent. Traffic diversion on this scale poses a dilemma for publishers....
...Simon Davis, a partner at Clifford Chance, will examine why the FCA decided to brief a solitary Telegraph journalist about a potentially market-moving review of life policies, who decided on the strategy...
...The war of the supermarket titans is back on....
...The most successful examples are China’s state-backed titans – CNPC, Sinopec and Cnooc....
...He describes turning up to the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 wearing “a V-neck tennis sweater in the traditional white, maroon and black, over white pants”....
...“James v UMG Recordings” is a dispute about how much money musicians should receive from digital downloads of their work....
...These include UK/Prussia v France at Waterloo in 1815, UK/France v Germany between 1914 and 1918 and France/Germany v UK in Brussels ever since 1973....
...Maria Crawford ——————————————- SCIENCE FICTION Vicious, by VE Schwab, Titan, RRP£7.99 College friends Victor and Eli use near-death experiences to trigger the emergence of latent super powers....
...A sign at the entrance directing visitors to the “Apple v Samsung” case should also say “Samsung v Apple”, one lawyer suggested....
...Although there are branded fuels such as Total’s Excellium and Royal Dutch Shell’s V-Power, no one is ever going to wait in line for hours to buy the new product....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...In the wake of the Madoff and Lehman collapses, the coming Ucits V and alternative investment fund managers directives have been framed to tighten the rules under which custodian banks operate....
...“When you get that nomination, you give a speech to millions, you can be elevated very quickly,” says Mr Davis....
...These include John Paulson, the hedge fund titan who made a fortune out of shorting the subprime business ahead of the global credit crunch....
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