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...Castore has raised roughly £150mn from a trio of investors, boosting the British premium sportswear maker’s firepower as it looks to expand its brand on the global stage....
...It’s a measure of how close the English football club came to entering 2024 with continued uncertainty over its future....
...For one thing, management seems to have traded English understatement for American optimism....
...Its detailed counterblast against claims made by short seller Gotham City avoided any gaffes in English. But they will not leave international investors comprehensively reassured....
...It is so ingrained in daily life that Argentines talk about inflation in the same way the English talk about the weather....
...Last week, OpenAI revealed its new language model, GPT-4, which users can access through a premium version of ChatGPT and via Microsoft’s search engine Bing....
...During lunch, the canteen is alive with a young workforce, many chatting in English. The company has also changed at the top....
...note: “I’m, Master of m/v PAWELL, flag - SYRIA, declare that I have stopped loading . . ....
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...Causeway Capital Management LLC, the LA hedge fund, has declared 4.88 per cent of Micro Focus....
...“We definitely see global super premium football rights values rising gently but surely,” said Claire Enders, founder of Enders Analysis, a media research group. “[Sports] franchises are valuable....
...US private equity group Silver Lake has struck a $500m deal to buy just over 10 per cent of the parent company of Manchester City, the English Premier League club....
...The eponymous “Victoria” was originally modelled on an fictional English lady....
...(v) Restructuring continues. Of course it does. But what about that Tesla, eh?...
...British English can be confusing for American speakers. However, UK rules governing takeovers are crystal clear: a final offer is final. That could be bad news for US private equity firm Apollo....
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...Apart from a terrible joke by a Sidewalk Labs engineer, and a scorching rant from an ex-English teacher in the Q&A, little sticks out in the memory from the evening....
...The most fascinating theatre is Qualcomm v Broadcom, with a scene-stealing role for the US government....
...The Dell offer of $24.05 in cash and 0.111 of a tracking share in VMware implied a value of $32.12 for each EMC share, which was still a 12 per cent premium to where they were trading on Tuesday....
...(Slate) Tourism: London v Venice Three museums in the English capital last year received more visitors than the entire Italian city of Venice....
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