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...jonathan.guthrie@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Focus on the haystack — not on the needles / From Brendan P Geary, Washington, DC, US Active v passive: put more faith in market forces / From...
...Boards may feel comfortable giving themselves a pass because the top court in Delaware, where most US companies are incorporated, ruled in the 2000 case of White v Panic that an all-male corporate board’...
...Taken together, Thursday’s results tapped into broader concerns that Silicon Valley companies are running out of room to grow, whether from saturation of their services among users in North America and Europe...
...And finally, one deal Oaktree directly benefited from:Company H is a good, growing company that we were ready to exit, and our bankers sent out 100 “teasers.”...
...One core dispute is exactly how restrictive the terms of the JV are, as the consensus view is that it is very difficult for Xerox to sell itself to a third party (H-P’s name had come up) without losing much...
...“It takes as much as 30 years for this basic research to become viable — in the case of quantum computing, that time really has passed,” says Mladen Vouk, a computer science professor at North Carolina State...
...One of his touchstones for anti-competitive behaviour is the late 1990s US v Microsoft case, in which the company was found guilty of using its operating system monopoly to stifle competitors like Netscape...
...On May 3, 2018, the Company and its subsidiary Tesla Motors Netherlands B.V. entered into the Ninth Amendment (the “Ninth Amendment”) to the Credit Agreement....
...(h/t to anonymous AV commenter Puntino for helping.) 1) Find the amount spent on buybacks for each of the four companies over each of the past five years. 2) Divide this amount by the average share price...
...The gain comes as H&R’s new chief executive, Jeff Jones, starts to make his mark on H&R Block....
...powers to secure America’s primacy in the world....
...Unilever, which reported its full-year results on Thursday, revealed that underlying prices in North America fell 1 per cent in the last quarter of the 2017, compared with the same quarter a year earlier...
...America’s biggest banks have a new watchdog with a deregulatory bent after the Senate confirmed Randal Quarles as the Federal Reserve’s supervisory chief, the first Trump appointee to be installed at the...
...According to a McKinsey Global Institute report released in June, cities in Europe, North America, China and East Asia have the most developed technology bases, while those in Latin America, Africa and India...
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...“The real concern for most companies contemplating an IPO isn’t the challenge of going public, it is the obligations and opportunities that come with being public,” said Lise Buyer, a partner at Class V...
...Founded in 2012 Piktochart boasts more than 13m registered users — about half of whom are in North America....
...“All the broad themes of the Trump rally — deregulation; infrastructure; tax reform; domestic v international — seem almost tailor-made to trigger a cable rally,” wrote analysts at Moffett Nathanson....
...But the industry is preparing for a broader battle on highly skilled immigration: Mr Trump has criticised the H-1B visa, which many large tech companies use to bring in thousands of software engineers from...
...Even under a relatively friendly administration in Washington, the technology sector has complained bitterly about the cap on H-1B visas for skilled immigrants....
...Hillary Clinton has won a boost from the tech industry as a coterie of corporate leaders endorsed her for president in a tumultuous US election that continues to fracture business opinion....
...creates the European Economic Community, which eventually forms the basis of the world’s largest free trade zone 4 1986-94 Uruguay Round leads to the creation of the World Trade Organisation 5 1994 North...
...(Fox) Campaign commentary How Clinton could knock out Trump (Thomas Friedman, NYT) Trump and Putin: a love story (David Remnick, New Yorker) The Lena Dunham v Duck Dynasty election (Michael Wolff, THR...
...The rise of fast fashion retailers like H&M and Zara, which mimic runway looks for a fraction of the cost, and e-commerce which has lowered the barrier to entry has weighed on rivals like Gap and Ralph Lauren...
...Basics that are cheap and cheerful, found at the likes of H&M or Zara, and the fancier stuff on a discount rack at, say, TJX have beaten the middlebrow fare of department and speciality stores....
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