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...The Lafarge transaction gave Sawiris a front-row seat for the French group’s 2015 merger with Swiss rival Holcim that created the world’s largest cement company....
...(YouTube/The New York Times)...
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...He was, after all, a close lieutenant of Stephenson and had worked on AT&T’s acquisition of DirecTV and Time Warner....
...court cases Name: Donald J Trump for President, Inc et al v....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...AT&T, after sealing a blockbuster acquisition of Time Warner, and Comcast’s NBCUniversal are also planning to unveil streaming services later this year....
...Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF, even joined the company’s board....
...Time Warner, in turn, wanted Iovine to offload Death Row: it didn’t have the stomach for gangsta rap. Iovine refused....
...But he is in good spirits, pleased that steps to revive the Time Warner-owned network, taken since his appointment three-and-a-half years ago, seem to be paying off....
...A lot of times they’ll just say I’m the Al Michaels or the Chris Berman [US sports commentators] of video games.”...
...By 1971, that figure was 15m, as the ageing movie audience settled down in the suburbs and put their feet up in front of the TV....
...But while newspapers are increasingly taking their lead from BuzzFeed et al, and their mastery of content distribution via platforms such as Facebook, the digital upstarts are shifting focus to a distinctly...
...The traveller today, from the guy in row 45 to the well-moisturised Pope up front, has never been so well fed, cosseted or entertained....
...In the Netflix world, Comcast et al still deliver the content, but they need to find a new way of getting paid....
...The “back end” of the network – the part where Netflix connects to Comcast et al – would be a tightly-regulated telecoms service....
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...Time Warner released separate financial figures for HBO for the first time on Wednesday, prompting comparisons with Netflix which famously overtook HBO in US subscribers in November....
...And although people say they like new things, often what they want is merely for existing things to work better. Innovations must be bought repeatedly if they are to succeed commercially....
...Video recording is now 1080p full HD on the rear-facing camera, while the front camera is 720p HD....
...United States v Apple, Inc et al is more than a US Justice department antitrust action against publishers allegedly colluding on ebook prices....
...“I used to come here all the time as a child,” she explains after finding me in a forest green leatherette booth, sitting in front of a pink formica table....
...Jeff Bewkes, Time Warner chief executive: “The entire Time Warner family mourns the loss of Steve Jobs....
...Readers’ Hub brings together newspapers (powered by PressDisplay), books (from Kobo) and magazines (courtesy of Zinio) into one app, while Social Hub pulls together Facebook, Twitter et al....
...front row neighbours even make it to the next show....
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