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...But critics said the company had been hemmed in by its hugely profitable search business and cautious about introducing generative AI products that could cannibalise its business model....
...And in this new era of telecommuting and always-on work culture, business can beckon at any moment. So where should one go in Japan’s capital to get a job done — and, ideally, enjoy doing it?...
...The bill would cut through Kafkaesque rules that restrict the ability of Fema to provide the kind of support to restaurants and diners across the US that Andres’s charity is doing privately....
...But “the liberal, free-market establishment, political and business leaders in every western country, did not think enough about, are we taking the public as a whole along with us?”...
...Jud Linville, head of the global cards business at Citigroup, is leaving the company as part of a restructuring designed to unify the business with other parts of the retail banking operation....
...Eatigo offers diners time-based discounts — deals are better during off-peak hours — so that eateries can fill up their empty tables....
...“I think he’ll be doing something completely different.”...
...The restaurant’s other well-heeled diners glance over frequently, as if they sense that secrets are being shared....
...Citigroup has drawn up a shortlist of four domestic lenders as potential buyers for its retail banking business in Japan, each attracted to its roughly Y1.5tn ($14bn) in foreign-currency deposits and well-heeled...
...Yet this investment was as much down to chance as anything else....
...“What [technology companies are] doing is exactly the same thing. We’re creating a business plan based on having superior computation, being able to calculate away the risks to others.”...
...Prof Caproni worked as a waitress in her parents’ diner in Massachusetts before moving into academia....
...As an engineering professor at the University of Cincinnati from 1971 to 1979, he was involved in both teaching and research. Later he went into business....
...Let’s hope she’s as gifted as her father.”...
...Instead, he has a portfolio career in business, public speaking, consultancy and sport....
...When Duke Street bought the business, it concluded that there was room for “at least 200” in the UK....
...It is bright and airy, despite an abundance of dark wood in the high-ceilinged dining room, and packed with chattering diners when I enter....
...Bain & Co, the consulting and business strategy firm, estimated that sales of luxury goods dropped “as much as 20 per cent” in six months of 2009, and feared that the luxury sector “would head into recession...
...Brazil, for example, is ranked 127th out of 183 countries this year in the World Bank’s annual Doing Business Report, below Mozambique and Nepal. But they can also be overcome. Just look at Marfrig....
...Gates casts the decision almost as a matter of business efficiency....
...For a moment it seems as though we’re going to have to share one of the long bare wood tables with other diners....
...“This isn’t just about belt-tightening as a consequence of a significant downturn, it is the fear of doing something irresponsible,” he says....
...“Much like I needed the MBA to help me advance from a business perspective, the social entrepreneurs could benefit as well....
...Instead of chasing each new contract, as the web design business was doing, Frost and his team starting building relationships with customers as an online marketing consultant....
...The majority of those doing businesses over the mobile internet have been selling products designed for mobile consumption, such as chat services, ring tones, and music....
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