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...As Aurelius struggles to salvage its investment, the path to restoring private equity’s reputation as responsible owners of UK retail is rockier....
...Letter in response to this article: A child psychiatrist is something very different / From Dr Joel S Richman, Grey-haired Clinical Psychologist, Hoffman Estates, IL, US...
...In an attempt to salvage some value from the company, Jawbone had been seeking a buyer for its assets over the past several months....
...In particular, MEPs urged the commission to focus on safety and privacy issues and consider giving robots a form of “electronic personhood”....
...The US group, which is the world’s largest electronic payments company, will initially pay €11.5bn in cash and €5bn worth of its own stock to Visa Europe’s owners, who include more than 3,000 European banks...
...AI could be just as important to IBM, reports Richard Waters in today’s Big Read (FT free-to-read), as it looks for a new growth driver to salvage falling profits and a sagging share price....
...Primark, the retailer, paid $9m in compensation in an attempt to salvage its reputation....
...But bulls seem to have been reinvigorated by their long holiday weekend and US index futures popped at the start of electronic trading....
...For Apple, the mere fact that an agreement has been reached will help salvage what had been building up to be an awful year for the California technology company in the world’s largest telecoms market....
...AUO’s $500m fine equals the record penalty for price-fixing in the US, set in a 1999 case against Swiss healthcare company F Hoffman-La Roche, which settled allegations it colluded to fix vitamin prices....
...Mr O’Shaughnessy suggests NYSE may go for the Chicago Board Options Exchange, or MarketAxess, a US-listed government and corporate bond electronic trading platform....
...In such circumstances, there was little they could do to salvage documents and computers, let alone clunky industrial machinery, much of it fixed to the floor....
...Both trends are already evident in the price-sensitive consumer electronics category....
...Barry Judge, chief marketing officer of Best Buy, the consumer electronics retailer, told his Twitter followers that customer traffic “seems good versus last year”....
...The salvage team tried to sell what they could and kept what they could not sell....
...Crucial to any exchange’s ability to attract that flow is its ability to absorb electronic “buy” or “sell” messages sent by traders even before they get to the point of being fulfilled....
...“Adams Childrenswear had a big IT system running all its electronic point of sale systems, stock picking, and so on. Keeping that running was an absolute priority....
...“In the banking sector, these developments are significantly negative,” said Mr Hoffman-Becking....
...But Elayaway used an affiliate online shopping mall to demonstrate sufficient demand for layaway on big-ticket electronic goods....
...Dopplr has some prominent backers, including Tom Glocer, chief executive of Thomson Reuters; Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn; and Tyler Brûlé, FT columnist and founder of magazines Wallpaper and Monocle...
...However, it remains to be seen whether it is too late to salvage Motorola’s mobile handset business, at least in its current form....
...US shoppers may be shunning traditional toys this season in favour of electronics, clothing and other goods, due to anxieties over the safety of Chinese made products, according to anecdotal evidence from...
...But it is still going to be an important day,” adds Ms Hoffman....
...Now two US funds are trying to salvage value from the $3bn company, urging parent NEC Corp to sell down its 70 per cent stake to facilitate restructuring....
...The episode was typical of countless salvage operations forced on businesses along the US gulf coast following Katrina and Rita....
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