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...Weekly highlights The heat is (very, very slowly) turning up on Sam Bankman-Fried in the US....
...Additional reporting by Kiran Stacey in Washington, Oliver Barnes and Sarah Neville in London, Erika Solomon in Berlin, Nikou Asgari in New York, Mehul Srivastava in Jerusalem, and Sam Fleming in Brussels...
...Mr Kulkarni said the sector would become more like “Apple v Samsung”, where biotechs competed on adding generation after generation of features....
...Despite these misgivings, 70 per cent said they get news frequently or occasionally from Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Apple and Microsoft’s MSN....
...Gladden most recently worked as the CFO at Mondelēz International and formerly in the same role at Dell Inc....
...Verizon, fresh from its revised deal to buy Yahoo, has been linked with cable company Charter....
...Yahoo notably abandoned its Alibaba spin over tax liability concerns. In 2015, there were $177bn worth of US spin-offs, up from just $17bn in 2010....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...If she wins, as my colleague Sam Fleming notes, part of the reason will be that she has tapped into the flickering optimism around the country that is driving up President Barack Obama’s approval ratings...
...Yahoo cuts slices in cake sale Yahoo is trying to have its cake and eat it, announcing another overhaul along with a thinly veiled invitation to potential acquirers, says Lex....
...Yahoo’s motley collection of websites and applications including search, Yahoo Mail and digital magazines....
...He says Yahoo has failed to match such deals and has become an afterthought for its shareholders....
...- Ackman v. Berkshire: Whose holdings are more immoral? - Meet the City types publicly backing a UK departure from the EU....
...In a rare show of unity, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo and Microsoft are jointly submitting evidence to the same parliamentary committee, according to people familiar with the matter....
...Forwarded Google v Uber Alphabet is planning to launch a fleet of self-driving cars for hire next year, which will have it competing with Uber....
.... …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 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...
...(FT) Yahoo closes China operations It is laying off 200-300 people and shuttering its Beijing research centre, its only physical presence in mainland China....
...Marissa Mayer, Yahoo chief executive, pointed out that since the Paris attacks, public opinion had swung back towards a desire for security and away from privacy concerns....
...Seven companies contacted by the ISC – Apple, BlackBerry, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo – all said they did not automatically accept the UK courts’ legal jurisdiction to compel disclosure...
...Freemium v paid: Streaming competition swells YouTube is one of several Spotify competitors bringing streaming services to the market this year....
...Companies including Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft have consistently denied they have granted access to their systems to intelligence services, in response to revelations that US and UK security agencies...
...“Optic Nerve” tapped into Yahoo users’ accounts and took still images from their computer webcams every five minutes. Yahoo reacted angrily to the revelations, denying all knowledge....
...Dan and Sam Houser Rockstar Games British Grand Theft Auto V, the video game, earned more than £600m within three days of release in 2013, becoming the fastest-selling entertainment product in history...
...Awkward (Financial Times) Moscow’s ‘political technologists’ specialise in creating pure spectacle (Financial Times) Sleaze v spin in Mexico’s race for reform (Financial Times) The SEC is turning into...
...Sam Parnell, chief technology officer of sports site The Bleacher Report, gives a cautious welcome to Facebook’s offer of stability....
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