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...Apple and Qualcomm have agreed to put an end to one of the longest-running and most expensive disputes in the tech industry, settling their numerous multibillion-dollar legal fights and paving the way to...
...Then in 1977 came two Supreme Court decisions, first Brunswick Corp. v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat and then Continental TV v. GTE Sylvania....
...(Bloomberg) US oil driller Continental Resources has hired Rory Sabino, formerly of Bank of America Merrill Lynch....
...Supermarkets across the US, Britain and continental Europe suffered smaller declines. Meanwhile, Amazon shares notched up a 3 per cent gain, adding about $13bn to its market capitalisation....
...Inside story on Google’s Euro VC efforts Murad Ahmed has been delving into why Google Venture’s European VC fund has disappeared and finds there were frustrations for the continental team over stalled deals...
...Over recent years, continental insurers have issued large amounts of tier two subordinated debt, which can in many cases be grandfathered as tier one capital....
...(FT) Journalism v Silicon Valley The media has lost control of production and distribution to the opaque algorithms of Google and Facebook....
...These include UK/Prussia v France at Waterloo in 1815, UK/France v Germany between 1914 and 1918 and France/Germany v UK in Brussels ever since 1973....
...Although there are branded fuels such as Total’s Excellium and Royal Dutch Shell’s V-Power, no one is ever going to wait in line for hours to buy the new product....
...International companies, including the UK’s BAE Systems and Cobham, face similar pressures after having spent the past five years investing heavily in the US to escape the looming defence cuts in much of continental...
...Food minister K V Thomas said the government would allow 51 per cent foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail, paving the way for retail giants like Walmart and Tesco to enter the market....
...It will also make the V&A the de facto hub of the area. “We wanted to make the V&A completely accessible,” Levete explains, “to make it easy just to drift in.”...
...… Power Player: Lorraine Baldry, LCR chairman Property veteran Lorraine Baldry is taking over as chairman of London & Continental Railways as the government-owned group looks to focus on property development...
...Alien dreamscapes and surrealist plotlines ensued as “writers used every trick in the book to keep Batman away from the crime-haunted streets where he belonged”, paving the way for the birth of the Marvel...
...Continental lost $96m, or $0.84 per share, in the fourth quarter of 2008....
...But that damage has been done – the Citi v Fabulis saga has been picked up by a slew of high-profile technology blogs, including GigaOm, Mark Maunder and TechCrunch....
...It has since staged a “v-shaped” revival, pointing to a robust recovery....
...Morgan Stanley also upgraded shares in Continental Airlines, saying it was a likely survivor from the fall-out in the industry....
...chairman of the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation, an industry consultancy, says the “horrific” figures are made worse by coinciding with rising competition among Qantas, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and V...
...Many other legacy carriers, including United and Continental, have bowed out of the M&A game, at least for now....
...The V-shaped hulls of the trucks are designed to deflect blasts from roadside bombs, which have been responsible for most of the deaths of US soldiers in Iraq....
...Along the way it lost its distinctive V-tail and picked up a conventional tail. But it is still fast....
...Lloyd’s is also paving the way for other underwriters to issue catastrophe bondsto gain additional reinsurance capacity if they wish....
...Last Tuesday, at midday in continental Europe, there were about 7.5m users online....
...Thain, Chief Executive Officer, NYSE Group, Inc. NYSE Group, Inc. (NYSE: NYX) today confirmed in a letter to the Chairmen of the Euronext N.V....
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