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...In the 1995 pop culture classic movie Clueless, the main character Cher Horowitz turns to her state-of-the art 90s computer to help select her outfit of the day....
...A train company might be the only operator that can take you from A to B (though some days you might be quicker walking)....
...Spoken word, folk, hip hop and R&B are placed alongside traditional opera....
...It is of course triple-B-minus or Baa3. And our chart of corporate bond spreads over Treasuries mistakenly showed triple-B and single-B yields instead of spreads....
...The $105mn Series B financing, scheduled to be announced on Tuesday, values the company, called Talos, at $1.25bn....
...It’s just announced a $20m Series B round — only six months on from its $40m Series A. But which other start-ups are sparing patients’ blushes in Europe?...
...JPMorgan pays chief Dimon $34.5m after record profits in 2021 (FT) US Senate committee advances bill to tame Big Tech’s power (FT) Unilever bid fiasco ramps up pressure on management to deliver plan B...
...In the early 1950s, when he was building the world’s first nuclear submarine for a sceptical US Navy, Admiral Hyman Rickover had a problem....
...The Andreessen-Horowitz-backed company is doing very, very well. Last week it confirmed it was raising $65m in a Series B, which Axios reported will make it worth $650m....
...There are two of Rachmaninov’s Preludes, notably the expansive, deeply felt, B minor, which is heard alongside the gently melancholic G Sharp Minor, both played with unforced eloquence....
...Hanging the Democrats’ hopes on Biden’s empathy seriously risks the renewal of the Trump Presidential Apprentice show.” — Douglas B....
...Independent retail consultant Richard Hyman said the company was unusually efficient even by the standards of discounters. “Their warehousing is state of the art and very highly automated,” he said....
...It also led the B round for accommodation-booking site Airbnb, which has also been eyeing a stock market listing, though not before next year....
...Richard Hyman, an independent retail consultant, pointed out that trading statements were unaudited, vary in definitions and timeframes and take little account of returns....
...The IPOs are the culmination of a campaign by Andreessen Horowitz to break into the A-list of VC firms, writes Richard Waters....
...Connie Chan of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz looks at how companies are providing forums for WeChat groups....
...Pinterest said holders of its B shares will initially hold about 99 per cent of the voting power of its outstanding stock following the IPO....
...As Benedict Evans, a tech analyst at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, has written, moats around tech monopolies are rarely breached....
...The company’s other big shareholders, with more than 5 per cent each, are Japan’s Rakuten, General Motors, Fidelity, Andreessen Horowitz and Alphabet....
...Richard Hyman, an independent retail consultant, said it was far from certain whether Homebase could recapture its traditional position at the “soft” end of DIY....
...Other participants included Victory Park, International Finance Corporation, Andreessen Horowitz and CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund....
...Homebase, however, runs a distant second in the UK to Kingfisher, which owns the B&Q and Screwfix chains and has a market share of almost 40 per cent....
...Haydn’s B minor Sonata is, even by his standards, one of his most daringly inventive, and Gavrylyuk was alive to its moments of extraordinary delicacy, the trills crystalline....
...has now outpaced the S&P 500 by more than 100 per cent since hitting rock bottom late in 2002: So this is quite a market rally, based on a belief that a) there is strength in the economy and presumably b)...
...Although such sums are routine for Silicon Valley counterparts, the SoftBank move is the largest so-called Series B investment in Europe, according to CBInsights....
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