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...Pilot, which also operates the Flying J brand, sells fuel, food and merchandise to truckers and provides showers among other services....
...Blackstone’s president Jonathan Gray earlier this year said it was a “golden moment” for the fast-growing $1.5tn industry....
...Blavatnik separately owns DAZN, the sport streaming service....
...Silicon Valley is not the only source of competition for workers: consultancy Accenture has been building data-led marketing services, for instance....
...Netflix, which financed the roughly $200mn film, is opening The Gray Man on Friday in 23 markets for just one week before it moves exclusively to the streaming service....
...Many consumers are still signing up for streaming services....
...“Their service is designed to keep you at home,” he said. “They don’t want to market [a wide-release film] — it’s ridiculously expensive.”...
...The Gray Man is set to become one, alongside Stranger Things, Bridgerton and others....
...The launch comes on the back of a similar project debuted this summer by the auctioneer Simon de Pury and meets two distinct needs, says Noah Horowitz, Sotheby’s head of gallery and private dealer services...
...employees have been “physically or verbally threatened or abused by customers” when those customers were confronted for not wearing a mask or social distancing, according to a nationwide poll conducted by the Service...
...The US company’s purchase of the Roald Dahl Story Company, announced on Tuesday, is its latest effort to consolidate its position as the world’s most popular streaming service by expanding its content library...
...Professor Glenda Gray, president and chief executive of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), said that very high levels of previous infection, combined with rising vaccination coverage, could...
...AT&T over the past decade has tried to move beyond its mobile, broadband and wireline phone businesses to be a serious Hollywood player....
...Amazon recently rolled out a service that allows groceries to be dropped inside garages using smart lock technology.Gizmos in stores, such as the Alexa assistants, also give a high-tech sheen....
...Gray moved eight hours from his hometown in the Mississippi Gulf Coast to Nashville to earn more doing deliveries during the pandemic....
...Alistair Gray and Alex Barker report on why he is starting a new channel, talkTV, early next year. Making its debut this very week is Universal Music....
...Shoppers have made fewer visits to stores in the pandemic and health services have postponed routine treatments, reducing demand for prescriptions....
...A company which has long touted its superior customer service is now trying to extend that standing online, pulling together data from digital and in-store purchases to personalise offerings and offer virtual...
...Blackstone, the private equity group, has bought $100bn of warehouses, with Jonathan Gray, its president, recently identifying ecommerce as the “number one theme at the firm”....
...It had struggled for years with the rise of online shopping, and restrictions to slow the spread of coronavirus in the spring left it unable to service a high debt load....
....* PepsiCo said on Thursday that sales had picked up strongly at convenience stores and petrol stations, while the decline in food service had moderated....
...The service is not available outside the US....
...Walmart, once a big seller of DVDs, bought Vudu, a movie streaming service, a decade ago but sold it to Fandango this year after it failed to take off in the way that Netflix and Amazon Prime Video did....
...Ropes & Gray has hired Emily Brown as a partner in its asset management group. She will join the London office in April from Schulte Roth & Zabel....
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