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...“There’s been growing demand for V-neck sweaters, with searches for the style increasing by 10 per cent this year versus 2023,” says Daniel Todd, buying director of Mr Porter, where sales of the style have...
...They formed the precursor to what’s now Thoma Bravo, the world’s largest software investor with $122bn in assets....
...‘Perfect scenario’ Those look like V-shaped projections, Andrew Glenn thought to himself....
...to take QAD Inc private for $2 billion (Reuters)...
...“This is not going to be a V-shaped recovery from here given the many months [or] years it will take for full repair, but it feels good now.”...
...“Markets are pricing a V [shaped recovery], everyone’s coming back to work, and this is going to be fine,” Mr Falco said. “I don’t think it’s going to be that easy quite frankly.”...
...Daniel Ives, an analyst at Wedbush who covers Symantec, called the news a “major head scratcher” given recent turmoil at the company....
...Bain had purchased Blue Coat from Thoma Bravo for $2.4bn a year earlier....
...These included acquisitions such as Ewos, a Norwegian salmon feed company, and Diamond V, a manufacturer of yeast culture products to aid animal health....
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...“There’s unlikely to be the big titan v titan litigation that we saw in the smartphone wars.”...
...Portraits such as of the poet Tennyson and “Madonna and Child” are on display in a new exhibition at London’s V&A. Forwarded Source code poetry Programmers are artists too....
...He added that Daniel Ek, Spotify’s chief executive and founder, “deserves a tremendous amount of credit for pushing the rock up the hill”....
...“Satellite could paint the whole sky,” says Mr Hindery, referring to operators such as DirecTV and Dish, which were unconstrained by the limits of physical cable infrastructure....
...DirecTV shares rose 2.4 per cent to $81.74....
...DirecTV shares rose 2.9 per cent to $75.08 after the largest US satellite TV company unveiled a $3.5bn stock buyback program with chief executive Mike White saying its stock price was “far below our intrinsic...
...Arnaud Montebourg, economy minister with whom Mr Niel had a spat this year, tweeted: “Bravo to @Xavier75, who is attempting the conquest of T-Mobile in the US. France wishes him luck.”...
...Top shareholdings: Coca-Cola; ConocoPhillips; DirecTV; GlaxoSmithKline; General Electric; IBM. Portfolio Value: Berkshire’s equity portfolio was valued at $103.3bn at the end of June....
...(Financial Times) Sotheby’s has attacked Daniel Loeb’s record as a director of public companies, as it stepped up its defence against the activist investor’s attempt to force his way on to its board of...
...GVT has attracted potential buyers including Spain’s Telefónica and DirecTV. All parties declined to comment....
...But Daniel Hammer, secretary-general of Médias Suisses, warned it would take several years for any changes to be adopted....
...More than 75 television networks including Fox, Discovery and Bravo, are now using GetGlue to promote upwards of 680 shows. And GetGlue is proving to be sticky with media consumers, too....
...See, for example, a scene in The Newsroom when Daniels’ character is about to go on-air, having changed from his off-screen working uniform of no tie, jeans, button-down and V-neck sweater into a pinstripe...
...Sun European, the regional arm of US group Sun Capital, also owns the Dutch retail brands Scotch & Soda and V&D, and Neckermann.de, the German mail order business....
...Additional reporting by Daniel Schäfer in London This article has been amended since original publication to reflect the fact that Universal will have to pay Citigroup £1.1bn....
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