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...This is not just a recent phenomenon: Adam quotes Mark Jones, former director of London’s V&A, on Richard Wallace (1818-90), founder of the Wallace Collection, who “was an outsider, because of being illegitimate...
...Kate Adams, Apple’s chief counsel, called the verdict “a huge win”, pointing to the court’s ruling that “Apple is not a monopolist under ‘either federal or state antitrust laws’”....
...Carlyle, the US buyout fund, has hired John Adam Kanas, current chairman of BankUnited, as a senior adviser consultant and vice-chairman of its global financial services partners division....
.... ————————————————– News: Amazon agrees to buy Whole Foods for $13.7bn Lex: Grain of truth Video Lex on Whole Foods takeover FT Alphaville: Whole Foods v the activists Markets: Investors gobble up...
...Still, S&P struck an upbeat tone on the transaction, which would put place media properties like HBO and CNN under the same roof as DirecTV....
...AT&T said its revenues climbed by 22.7 per cent on a year-on-year basis to $40.52bn, propelled by the company’s buyout of satellite television provider DirecTV....
...UBS cut its forecast for earnings per share for 2016, 2017 and 2018 by 3 per cent due to increased competition in the wireless industry, and the costs associated with AT&T’s rollout of the DirecTV Now streaming...
...Victoria & Albert Museum Cromwell Road The V&A returns as the LDF’s official hub and host of the Global Design Forums — a series of talks, including Merel Bekking on “Brain Manufacturing”, which explores...
...As Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas noted after reviewing Hertz’ results this week: It’s hard enough running a car rental firm in a normal environment....
...Instapaper v Pocket A big difference between the two apps is cost....
...At the start of this year, a British businessman named Adam Robson received some awful news....
...Museums are holding special shows, from Performing for the Camera at Tate Modern to Paul Strand at the V&A, while many commercial art galleries have put on photography: for instance, Shigeo Anzaï at White...
.... …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Ben Hall, world news editor, picks: • Isis Inc: how oil fuels jihadi terrorists by Erika Solomon, Guy Chazan and Sam Jones• Why China’s ‘migrant miracle’ is...
...Additional reporting by Matthew Garrahan in New York and Adam Thomson in Paris...
...“With advances in technology, the at-home viewing experience has become quite comfortable and of a quality on par in many people’s eyes with what they can experience in a venue,” said Adam Jones, director...
...In a quest to offer similar ‘converged’ service 12 years later, AT&T, the US mobile market leader, bought satellite TV group DirecTV for $67bn. Mr Niel has kept a keen eye on the US for a while....
...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....
...Du v. Cisco, filed in 2011, is pending in the US district of Maryland....
...DirecTV dropped its litigation when News Corp took a stake in the US satellite broadcaster that year....
...Those fees come on top of existing deals the NFL has with ESPN, owned by Disney, and DirecTV, the satellite television provider....
...Adam Keller, Chartright’s chief executive, says that his company’s business has rebounded sharply from the 2008-09 recession, surging by 25 per cent a year....
...The broadcaster, led by chief Adam Crozier, confirmed that Mr Cowell would not be one of the weekly judges. ITV is talking to him about other onscreen roles, but do they really need to bother?...
...Related links: Top Behavioural Economist Invents New Mythical Role for the Invisible Hand – Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy Craig Pirrong v Gary Gensler: who’s right on OTC derivatives?...
...If you total up auction sales in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Japan over the past year, the figure outstrips the US for the first time – €130m v €123m....
...My work is a unique form of engraving called diamond-point stippling, which I took up in 1961 having seen the magnificent work at the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam and the V&A....
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