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...This is where chip packaging, once a mere afterthought for most chipmakers, comes in....
...“I would say that, as a team, we've pretty well discounted a uniform V-shaped recovery. The question is, is it U-shaped, is it W-shaped or parts of it L-shaped?”...
...jonathan.guthrie@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Focus on the haystack — not on the needles / From Brendan P Geary, Washington, DC, US Active v passive: put more faith in market forces / From...
...There has also been no turnover on the board of directors at National Beverage Corp, even though billionaire CEO Nick Caporella has faced lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct (which he denies)....
...Having announced a take-it-or-leave-it price for UK packaging firm RPC, Apollo faces the risk of being outbid....
...RPC, one of Europe’s biggest plastic packaging suppliers, has accepted a £3.34bn takeover offer from US rival Berry Global and walked away from a previously agreed deal with private equity group Apollo....
...The US company Berry Global Group, which has threatened to gatecrash a proposed £3.3bn takeover of European plastic packaging maker RPC, has been given a March deadline to ‘put up or shut up’ by regulators...
...There’s a longstanding perception that America needs a minimum of four wireless companies for healthy competition....
...Taken together, Thursday’s results tapped into broader concerns that Silicon Valley companies are running out of room to grow, whether from saturation of their services among users in North America and Europe...
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...The two Wall Street investment banks were followed by JPMorgan, Citigroup and Bank of America, according to Thomson Reuters data....
...One of his touchstones for anti-competitive behaviour is the late 1990s US v Microsoft case, in which the company was found guilty of using its operating system monopoly to stifle competitors like Netscape...
...On May 3, 2018, the Company and its subsidiary Tesla Motors Netherlands B.V. entered into the Ninth Amendment (the “Ninth Amendment”) to the Credit Agreement....
...While there is some competition between Taiwanese and US chip design companies, Mr Abrams said, Taiwan’s major chip foundries and chip test and packaging companies, have little direct competition with suppliers...
...A 34oz bottle of P&G’s Pantene Pro-V Shampoo & Conditioner was listed by 10 different sellers — nine of them third parties — on the shopping site....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 4 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...For example, one wonders if, had Microsoft been allowed to continue packaging Windows exclusively with its own products, it would have crushed Google’s development in internet search....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...“The real concern for most companies contemplating an IPO isn’t the challenge of going public, it is the obligations and opportunities that come with being public,” said Lise Buyer, a partner at Class V...
...Why Britain has had few over Europe — Sebastian Payne What you’ve been saying Turning off the tap of throwaway packaging — letter from Andy Clarke “Sir, The UK’s retailers make a vital contribution to...
...To do that, it has moved into acquisition-financing activities historically dominated by the likes of JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup....
...A report by the media watchdog Ofcom found that the deal posed a serious risk of Murdoch’s family trust (which owns controlling stakes of 39 per cent in Fox and News Corp) having too great a say over the...
...“We are a victim of the copycat culture. Companies are copying our packaging, design, colour, image.” There is even an imitator that goes by the name Vnker, he says....
...“All the broad themes of the Trump rally — deregulation; infrastructure; tax reform; domestic v international — seem almost tailor-made to trigger a cable rally,” wrote analysts at Moffett Nathanson....
...(Fox) Campaign commentary How Clinton could knock out Trump (Thomas Friedman, NYT) Trump and Putin: a love story (David Remnick, New Yorker) The Lena Dunham v Duck Dynasty election (Michael Wolff, THR...
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