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...Fertitta, whose net worth Forbes estimates at about $9bn, is the owner of US basketball team the Houston Rockets, the Golden Nugget casino business and restaurant chain Landry’s....
...Documents seen by the Financial Times detail how the golden share arrangement works at ByteDance....
...The Italian coast, yachts, and devastating privilege: no wonder Netflix was slathering to have another crack....
...Boredom was a danger and, for those wanting to rent out their yachts, toys were also something relatively affordable to shout about in charter brochures....
...At the client’s request, Carroll organised the charter of a second yacht, with a second helicopter, to accommodate a team of research scientists who would also teach the client’s 12-year-old daughter....
...The following year, ISA delivered Project Rocco, which Wilding christened Resilience, the same name as his previous yacht....
...Golden Yachts, which builds and charters superyachts, has been another beneficiary. “Last year the market was an absolute nightmare — this year it’s completely the opposite....
...A vessel guarding a wind farm tells a yacht to turn to northwesterly: “You are entering a restricted area.” “Which way? I have no engine,” the yacht returns, fraught and exhausted. I turn in....
...Cookson tells me his clients will often charter a vessel like the U Boat Navigator to rendezvous with their super-yacht, because a full Cookson Adventures submersible expedition is a serious commitment....
...“A sailing yacht allows you that autonomy.” And, of course, there’s the Covid factor....
...Smart reads The corporate underbelly America’s rich are enjoying a golden age of impunity and it’s one of the biggest existential threats facing society....
...In the third quarter of this year another 1.7m Americans ditched their traditional television packages from providers AT&T, Comcast, Charter and Verizon....
...The yachts are moored in the harbour; the deck chairs are lined up at the Cinéma de la Plage. But as for this year’s film line-up, there’s one notable absence: Netflix....
...Malaysia’s former prime minister, Najib Razak, was part of a group that allegedly looted $4.5bn from the state investment fund and spent it on yachts and artworks....
...Other vessels of historical significance and royal provenance are also under its care, among them the former royal racing yacht, Bloodhound (itself available for charters in the Western Isles), two smaller...
...A week’s bareboat charter of an eight-berth yacht with Sunsail (sunsail.co.uk) costs from £3,150; alternatively, hotels near Anse Lazio include the Constance Lemuria (constancehotels.com) and Raffles (raffles.com...
...But one top HBO executive close to Mr Plepler says: “You could argue that Plepler is overly tanned and spending money and on his yacht . . . but he knew so much about the business....
...For his part, Jeff Bewkes, the Time Warner chief executive, will get a golden parachute....
...The disclosure, part of the new royal charter agreement, forces the BBC to list the names in pay bands of £50,000 and the areas in which they work....
...Verizon, fresh from its revised deal to buy Yahoo, has been linked with cable company Charter....
...At the end of last year there were 55 on order, set to free owners from the congested confines of superyachting’s golden triangle — the Caribbean, the Côte d’Azur and the Amalfi Coast....
...He’s on the left here, with Prince Edward and Zakiya Khatou-Chevassus, the boss of yacht charter firm Carte Blanche International… If the cat’s cradle of corporate entities and generalised opacity across...
...“He had the money and he had the yachts. He had the workers and he robbed them of their pensions,” he told parliament in October. “It is almost a parallel.”...
...This was the man who won the Golden Boot award at the World Cup in Mexico in 1986....
...All summer long the sea lanes from Nice to the Caribbean have been packed with yachts. So much so that anyone could be forgiven for believing that yachting is enjoying a golden era....
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