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...The bet that Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang made on Alibaba ended up being worth an awful lot more for his shareholders than Yahoo’s own business....
...But the “not obviously ‘box office’” appointment, as Jefferies analyst Martin Deboo described it, wasn’t intended to uphold the status quo....
...DD’s Kaye Wiggins speaks with our colleagues at the FT’s Behind the Money podcast about how the deal challenges the private equity status quo as investors look to CVC to address ESG concerns....
...Instead, Martin and director Jerry Zaks display Pinterish pretensions as repeated variations on the same two scenes are performed with increasingly strenuous doses of camp....
...The FTSE 100 consumer goods group spends about €8bn a year marketing its brands, ranging from Persil laundry detergent to Ben & Jerry’s ice cream....
...Sea Lovers, by Valerie Martin, Serpent’s Tail, RRP£8.99/Nan A Talese, RRP$25.95 Orange Prize-winning author Martin was raised in New Orleans, and many of the unusual 12 stories in this collection are set...
...Member MBE Jerry Roberts, Bletchley Park codebreaker. This is an edited extract of the full honours list...
...Comment, analysis and other offerings from Wednesday’s FT, Martin Wolf: The eurozone’s next decade will be tough What would have happened during the financial crisis if the euro had not existed?...
...An essay on F Scott Fitz- gerald becomes a rumination on how far great writers are influenced by the prose styles of their heroes....
...Gerald Graham, Canada Anthony Cordesman: I can’t excuse either side....
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