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...The sound of money The Wall Street Journal takes a deep dive into Taylor Swift’s blockbuster tour, which could be the first to gross $1bn in revenue....
...down with Japan Inc to tell it all about targeted industrial policy....
...It also said Google’s UK & Ireland managing director Ronan Harris would be joining the company in October as its president of Europe, Middle East and Africa....
...Black and Harris have become recognisable figures beyond the realm of finance — Black for his flamboyant art purchases, and Harris as proprietor of the Philadelphia 76ers and other sports teams....
...He joined Christie’s in 2007 after leaving the V&A where he was first a research fellow, moving up to senior curator....
...Kamala Harris and Cory Booker were among the candidates for the Democratic 2020 presidential nomination who welcomed the victory for the Sandy Hook families....
...The bad mojo in the market leaves observers wondering if blockbuster M&A will call it a year. On the one hand, targets are looking cheaper everyday....
...The “MTV era” now seems far distant, a blockbuster age populated by the likes of Madonna, Peter Gabriel (the effects-and-awards-laden “Sledgehammer”, 1986) and Michael Jackson (whose 1995 “Scream” duet with...
...And who else but a company backed by deal shark John Malone on the hunt for blockbuster M&A?...
...(FT) Qualcomm buys NXP in $47bn chip deal The US chipmaker has agreed to buy its Dutch rival, the latest in a series of blockbuster takeovers in a consolidating semiconductor industry....
...However, for the year, film revenues were down 13 per cent compared with an especially strong slate in 2015, which saw the release of blockbusters such as Jurassic World....
...(FT) Iceland v tourists Iceland may be beautiful, but it’s dangerously close to full....
...(Cue the only comment on this year’s Awards from Neil Patrick Harris, who tweeted that the decision was “horse shit”.)...
...(Slate) Tourism: London v Venice Three museums in the English capital last year received more visitors than the entire Italian city of Venice....
...(The Atlantic) London skyline 1616 v 2016 Juxtaposed images sketched 400 years apart show the change in the city’s skyline from the banks of the Thames. (The Guardian)...
...(FT) Murdoch v Trump: Fox and The Hair Donald Trump has gone to war with an unlikely enemy....
...V&A’s robot-made web London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, has launched a season of exhibitions and events focused on the “unsung role” of engineering in society....
...To take a recent example, ticket sales for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dropped by an astonishing 68.4 per cent on its second weekend, as comic-book fans returned to their dens....
...On the campaign trail, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are both riding high on the back of their blockbuster wins in New York last night....
...“You can’t put Grand Theft Auto V on an iPhone, it’s not the same experience. People were thinking about them like software companies when they should look at them like television and movies.”...
...(FT) Amazon shifts into 'Top Gear' The world's largest online retailer has signed a blockbuster $250m deal with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May to present a series that will premier in 2016...
...Mogul: Subtitles are for arthouse, not blockbusters. And an English guy would be a better Machiavellian adversary. Producer: Benedict Cumberbatch is hot right now....
...Take Two Entertainment's GTA V sold $800m worth of copies on its first day last September....
...Apple is preparing the groundwork for another blockbuster debt sale in the region of $17bn that could rank as the second-largest corporate bond sale of all time....
...after the release of Grand Theft Auto V,” said Edward Woo of Ascendiant Capital Markets, “but it is such a big blockbuster that it gives the company resources to invest and a lot of money for buybacks.”...
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