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...I’m still slowly recovering from a very bad cold that I caught at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona two weeks ago — but at least I’ve got my voice back!...
...Shares in Disney, Warner Brothers, Netflix and Paramount all fell by at least twice as much as the market last year. I’m not sure the mayhem is over....
...And there’s a lot pointing to the use of H-1B visas [for foreign workers in speciality occupations] as exactly that sort of blackmail....
...You’d have to staff tens of thousands of people to be able to review income documents as applicants are applying for credit....
...Think of the very precise, regimented lettering in M*A*S*H. “I love this typography — its form is dictated by function,” says Berryman, who has used them for printwork at Applied Art Forms....
...We’d love to hear your feedback on DD as we keep thinking of ways to expand this community. Drop us a line Due.Diligence@ft.com. Thanks for reading! 1....
...or live in an overcrowded neighbourhood when you can lounge on a virtual beach instead?...
...What would you be doing if you were not a CEO? David Millstone: “I’d be a philosophy professor . . . I really was thinking about applying to grad school. I’m glad I didn’t do that....
...Its designers are all hired locally to fit local tastes, and their price points are about half those of western fashion brands like Zara and H&M....
...It’s in the departure lounge, going to get fresh air, to be alive....
...Even so, J&J’s baby products are not doing particularly well outside the US....
...Prime ministers, generals, business chiefs? They’ve all been greeted with blank stares....
...The book forces us to confront similar issues of our time, ranging from the dossier on the Iraqi WMD to the NSA files. ——————————————- BUSINESS Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand...
...Singapore Airlines has the worst pillows and I’d rather not have to change carriers. ●What about shaking things up by offering a proper short- and mid-haul business class in Europe?...
...But in the end it was fun doing it: [co-host] Colin Firth and I were standing at the top of the stairs, and every once in a while we’d go sneak some vodka shots behind the curtain....
...It’s nothing like as grand as the house I’d envisaged, nor is it perfect, but it is wilder, more challenging, somehow more thrilling and it’s done exactly what a holiday house should do – it has become an...
...I’m surrounded by unusual objets d’art (including a 5ft-long AK-47 made from glass), there are three bedrooms upstairs and a beautiful bathroom....
...“I’m not doing this to compete with publishers, I’m publishing books that they didn’t want to publish,” he says....
...“Do I look like someone who’s not enjoying the job that I’m doing?” he says, his white teeth flashing....
...Deal-making replaces research and development spending and, as with R&D, one blockbuster pays for several duds....
...I think we can become a lifestyle brand, because one thing doing the collaboration last year with [high-street retail chain] H&M showed us was that consumers would accept any product from us: we did men’...
...Haase’s own home town of Kalgoorlie was among those moved out of his patch, so he now lives 600 miles from his electorate office as well as 2,000 miles from his desk in Canberra....
...When it comes to vegetable gardening, I don’t know what I’m doing. I try. I have herbs and baby salad leaves on my windowsill. But it’s all fairly improvised....
...My wife is Swedish and commutes by train three hours every day to Lund, where she is a post-doctoral researcher in physical chemistry.We met in Canberra, where she’d been doing a PhD....
...It’s obviously been a rocky patch as well at time but without longer vision, how has your view of IP developed over that time? MR CHAMBERS: Sure. I’d break it down into a couple of phases....
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