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...Increasingly, I’m realising that what Cohere does is as complex a system as the most sophisticated engineering projects humans have taken on — like rocket engineering....
...But Vista held Finastra in an older fund with little dry powder, forcing it to rely on financial engineering....
...No successor has been named, but Cruise said its executive vice-president of engineering, Mo Elshenawy, would take over immediately as president and chief technology officer....
...“This new era of models represents one of the biggest science and engineering efforts we’ve undertaken as a company.”...
...The fine print of the Ohtani agreement reveals sophisticated financial engineering for both sides: Ohtani has opted to defer $680mn of his deal until after his playing days, taking just $2mn in salary per...
...Many of the industry’s biggest names, including Blackstone, Apollo Global Management, Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic have taken out such loans in recent years, according to securities filings....
...One thing to start: The head of Lazard in Sweden has been charged with aggravated bribery linked to a takeover of a Swiss company by engineering group Atlas Copco....
...The feedback showed the company “wasn’t ready for prime time” and needs “another 12-18 months of engineering” in order to be competitive, he said....
...The company’s engineering teams have been working for months to integrate it into a consumer product....
...After bringing in retired US Army general Stanley McChrystal as a consultant, every two weeks WorldQuant’s entire workforce joins a “giant Zoom call, carefully choreographed”....
...It underscores how politics, for the private equity industry, has become as important a skill as financial engineering and operations....
...Google put in major engineering to realise a level of performance that people might have thought was impossible. So hats off to Google for great engineering....
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...General Atlantic invested $250m in his company, Greensill Capital....
...But General Atlantic had itself already quietly benefited from Greensill’s financial engineering, which was a departure from the safe invoice-backed finance the company promoted....
...“They [Apple] have a credible team that I think has the experience and the depth, if they wanted to, to build a more general search engine,” said Bill Coughran, Google’s former engineering chief, who is...
...In a blog post, Justin Schuh, director of Chrome Engineering, detailed how the cookie was going to crumble, in favour of a Privacy Sandbox, which will still allow the ad industry to receive personalisation...
...If you’d like to dig down into the deal’s financial engineering, Lex has the full details here....
...Though in theory a general-purpose system that can carry out different tasks, the hardware for the engine has to be set up to perform a particular calculation....
...Documents provided by the DMV show that two companies — Cruise, which is part of General Motors and has permits for almost 400 drivers in California, and Aurora, a start-up founded by autonomous industry...
...Mr Kumar, who holds an engineering doctorate from Princeton, most recently worked for Google as general manager of display, video, app ads and analytics....
...With engineering talent among the most valuable and sought-after resources in Silicon Valley, industry leaders have been forced to respond to their employees’ concerns....
...(FT) Chapter eleventh hour Intense, around-the-clock negotiations in the General Motors building saved Eddie Lampert’s plan to buy Sears out of bankruptcy....
...Next week’s Campbell Soup annual general meeting is effectively a shareholder referendum on whether the company with a $20bn enterprise value should attempt to sell itself....
...It is up to the industry to focus on building up the skills required by candidates to become successful quants,” said Nitish Maini, general manager at WorldQuant’s virtual research centre....
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