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...Friday: Nanofilm Technology lists on the Singapore stock exchange, the biggest IPO in the city state in years....
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...‘Everybody’s been looking for the sign’ “It has been quite a week,” said Lise Buyer, who advises companies on their initial public offerings at Class V Group....
...In a paper released last month, OECD economists linked the insufficient diffusion of new technologies to weak overall productivity growth....
...Drop us a line: Due.Diligence@FT.com Broadcom clearly isn’t afraid of a fight....
...The move was sparked by backpage.com, a company that created a platform to make money from online sex trafficking and triggered a US congressional inquiry that reached damning conclusions. 21st Century...
...Below that are Amazon Prime and Hulu, feasting on network leftovers and middlebrow TV serials....
...“The pitch was always that Amazon is a trade off between rising physical store rental costs and structurally declining technology costs,” he says....
...Foods takeover FT Alphaville: Whole Foods v the activists Markets: Investors gobble up Whole Foods bonds News: John Mackey attacks ‘greedy bastard’ investor Jana Analysis: Whole Foods woes whet rival...
...Lex assessed evidence that ‘founder-led’ companies are best, betokened by the fact that five of the top 10 companies in the world by market capitalisation — Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Alibaba and Tencent...
...Job Moves Perella Weinberg has hired Richard Sherlund as a partner focusing on technology companies based out of its San Francisco office....
...One hint of what lies in store came in October last year, when Apple acquired VocalIQ, a UK-based speech technology start-up....
...Blue Origin — a private company funded by Mr Bezos, the founder of Amazon — has not needed to seek outside funding....
...They could license the Father Christmas brand and be incorporated in Lapland for tax purposes....
...Vulcan will be carried into space on two BE-4 engines developed by Blue Origin, a start-up founded by Jeff Bezos, the man behind Amazon....
...Yet shoppers looking for an item often go straight to browsing Amazon. So if search is to be equated with shopping, Amazon is a competitor. And Google does not lie down for competitors....
...Starting, perhaps, on the next occasion you swipe a bar code – or place an order on Amazon – with such deceptive, seductive ease. gillian.tett@ft.com...
...But the low-slung open-top vehicle’s exposure to the elements and surrounding traffic made it a commercial flop. To flout social norms is also hazardous....
...GTA V became the fastest selling game of all time when it came out last month, breaking the record set by Call of Duty last year....
...Mike George, vice-president of Amazon’s app store, said: “Developers now have the ability to create an even deeper connection between their app and the products customers value and purchase through Amazon.com...
...Apple last year acquired fingerprint recognition technology with its $356m purchase of AuthenTec, which if incorporated into future iPhones and iPads may provide an easier way to bolster consumers’ security...
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