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...Need to know: business Microsoft and Alphabet, Google’s parent, reported greater resilience than expected in their core businesses in the second quarter, helping to underpin Big Tech’s recent share price...
...In the communications sector, the video entertainment companies (Warner Bros Discovery, Paramount, Disney, Netflix et al) explain the bulk of the outperformance....
...But as Steven Kelly of the Yale Program on Financial Stability pointed out to me, Yellen et al will need the goodwill of the big banks should some other bank or banks get into trouble....
...Barrero et al have been running a survey of working-age Americans since May of 2020, targeting those with a history of paid work....
...In two contrasting takes on the power of Amazon, Facebook, Google et al, politicians and legislators are also found sorely wanting....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...(FT, Bloomberg) In the news Google on brink of joining the $1tn club The stock market value of Google parent Alphabet is close to hitting $1tn for the first time, making it the fourth of the Big Tech...
...Job moves Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the Stanford students who founded Google as a research project more than two decades ago, are stepping back from their day-to-day roles at tech holding company Alphabet...
...James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington et al were politicians long before presidents shouted in all caps from Twitter accounts....
...Donald Trump’s main obsession nowadays is Amazon, not Facebook or Alphabet, because he seems to think Jeff Bezos is a personal enemy. In so doing, he confuses Mr Bezos with Amazon....
...Alphabet, Google's parent, is backing a machine-learning cancer treatment....
...Don’t bank on the German elections A senior official in Germany’s liberal FDP tells The Telegraph his party won’t make life any easier for David Davis et al if they get into government with Angela Merkel...
...(Al Jazeera) MAGA v MOPGA French president Emmanuel Macron appears to be goading US leader Donald Trump....
...- And Nick Rowe arguing against Borio et al’s objection to helicopter money....
...Digital news TV switch While newspapers are increasingly taking their lead from BuzzFeed et al, and their mastery of content distribution via platforms such as Facebook, the digital upstarts are shifting...
...Tim Cook, Apple chief, flew to Brussels to lobby against a tax probe and Google and Facebook have also faced tax protests....
...Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, a radical Egyptian feminist provocateur; Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café, on Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir et al....
...Elsewhere on Monday, - How Putin et al stole Russia. - Once energy prices “start falling the logical response from the industry is to create circumstances in which they can fall further....
...The other challenge for HP, Dell, et al is that the biggest customers can do it themselves. Google designs and builds its own serv” programme....
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...Facebook et al may not need the intellectual capital, but they sure needed their cash....
...FURTHER FURTHER READING - How Google et al are legitimising the robotics business with their purchases. - The FT’s Pinterest with Big Interviews. - Introducing AirPnP....
...Klein – Google got it wrong....
...(Financial Times) EU proposals for Libor et al to be unveiled today: “[B]enchmarks that are deemed to be “critical” would be overseen by a college of national supervisors led by the Paris-based European...
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