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...According to Fred Plan, a senior threat intelligence analyst at FireEye, the timing suggested that the group had been tasked with gathering intelligence on the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement candidates...
...developer, casino operator, show business personality and celebrity endorser qualifies him to run the country, he is fighting on multiple fronts to defend his business practices and to prepare his family enterprise...
...“Parker is giving movie theaters the opportunity that record stores never had, but it’s up to them to take it,” suggested the film journalist Bryan Bishop on The Verge....
...In 1972, Jules Kroll took skills he had honed exposing those who demanded kickbacks from the family printing business to found what became Kroll Inc....
...Despite facing challenges with its product and financing “that almost killed the company”, Fred Wilson, partner at Union Square Ventures, insisted that Foursquare “has survived and is thriving”, building...
...Bankers said last week was poor for European corporate bond issuance, with just one high-yield bond – from the UK’s Enterprise Inns – raising $405m, less than 10 per cent of the previous week’s high-yield...
...Minority investors should, however, query the position of Fred Kindle, a CDR partner, as non-executive chairman. An independent board boss would be preferable. jonathan.guthrie@ft.com...
...Windows is far too embedded in the Chinese economy for it to be banned completely, but certainly we should expect to see sensitive offices and systems reduce if not eliminate their use of it,” said Bill Bishop...
...The result was that both the Ford Models company and many of the models themselves became multimillion-dollar enterprises....
...Its authors argue that “private enterprise for public gain no longer need be an oxymoron” and that social enterprises can “backfill public services”....
...No sector in China today needs a catalysing ingredient more than the state-owned enterprises....
...Chinese people are used to hearing about the extraordinary benefits enjoyed by employees of big state-owned enterprises....
...To be successful in today’s economy, organisations need to treat their enterprise data as an investment.”...
...Fred Wilson, a leading New York venture capitalist, accuses it of trying to control the internet, “like Microsoft tried with personal computing …Who will stop Google?”...
...“We are almost 20 years into the consumer web and we have large platforms that are starting to suck up a lot of the oxygen,” wrote Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilson in a widely cited November blogpost...
...Fred Smith, FedEx chief executive, recognising that continuously improving logistics was essential, forged strategic partnerships with a series of IT leaders in his company, keeping digital innovation central...
...Fred Smith, chief executive, announced in October plans to boost the company’s ground transport business and to cut back some less profitable air express business....
...“Small and medium-sized enterprises are not going to list but get acquired by the listed,” Prof Kay predicts. HSBC’s Mr Hoffman agrees....
...Fred Crawford, chief executive of Alix, said that “partnering with CVC will enable us to continue to develop our services and expand geographically”....
...OCS has grown from a window cleaning service set up by Fred Goodliffe in 1900, employing one part-timer, into a global property support services group with 63,000 employees and turnover of £689m....
...For example, Fred Palensky, executive vice-president of research and development and chief technology officer of 3M, told the researchers: “Our goal is to get the voice of the customer all the way back to...
...I hate it,” Fred Wilson,a venture capitalist, wrote earlier this month. The right to anonymity when voicing opinions helps to prevent victimisation....
...We’ll Get ’Em in Sequins: Manliness, Yorkshire Cricket and the Century that Changed Everything, by Max Davidson, Wisden Sports Writing, RRP£18.99, 226 pages Was Fred Trueman one of the 1950s “angry young...
...“When a call comes into one of our locations for emergency road service, a dispatcher can quickly tell which of his trucks to send,” explains Fred De Jesus, the general manager....
...Fred Lowrance, analyst at Avondale Partners, predicted that while a sizeable number of shareholders are likely to reject the Hertz offer, Hertz “has always looked the more motivated buyer and the financially...
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