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...A month later the New York-based firm said it had acquired private credit firm Iron Park, a business set up by Tripp Smith, a former Blackstone credit executive....
...The firm also named Chris Gordon and Robin Marshall as the heads of its global private equity business....
...Amy Hood, chief financial officer, said new business coming to Microsoft’s cloud platform in the latest quarter was “primarily AI” and that as a result the company was “taking share” in the cloud business...
...In April, the New York firm bought Iron Park, a private credit fund manager. It acquired a stake in Clipway, which buys second-hand investor stakes in private equity funds — or secondaries....
...The group has expanded its business recently after acquiring private credit firm Iron Park as well as a stake in a company that buys second-hand stakes in private equity funds....
...This leaves the business vulnerable to mass redemptions, particularly with returns having declined and a higher-interest rate environment meaning investors can park their money in safer assets for a healthy...
...Last week, the company said it would double its spending on its theme parks to $60bn over the next decade....
...MFO-Park is in the business-y, northern suburb of Oerlikon. We find it on James-Joyce-Strasse after searching a series of hushed plazas....
...Chief executive Satya Nadella called these “material numbers”, given the large size of Microsoft’s cloud business....
...But, faced with an orange traffic cone deliberately placed on the hood, the cars experience the robotaxi equivalent of a PC screen turning blue: they become paralysed and clog up traffic....
...At more than 20 storeys, Nairn feared that Lewis Solomon Kaye and Partners’ Hilton Hotel on Park Lane was in danger of “urbanising Green Park”....
...Even if these companies are able to do business on Earth, making a success of that same business on or around the Moon is a giant leap....
...Last year, General Atlantic bought Tripp Smith’s credit firm Iron Park as it decided to push into debt-based investments....
...Their brief will be to lift the hood, to understand what’s really going on....
...One former senior Disney executive said that when the pandemic struck, pummelling Disney’s theme park and cinema businesses, any lingering notion of a big Hulu international expansion died....
...“With the changing market environment, companies are facing complex business challenges at a pace and scale unmatched in many years,” said Smith in a press release....
...Disney’s theme park business is also recovering strongly despite the closure of parks in China, analysts said....
...“It’s not going to be a walk in the park,” said a corporate lawyer who works on behalf of big tech....
...to a business model....
...At the Robin Hood conference, Laffont said there were some “green shoots” of opportunity in China....
...Cost-cutting can also backfire if it ends up diminishing the quality of Disney’s theme park experience or TV and film content....
...He said he proposed lunch to discuss the possibility of a partnership — as well as to avoid going to a water park with his children....
...A wrought-iron door guards the address near Central Park where Guzel Ganieva lives on the upper floors of a townhouse dating from the Gilded Age....
...with another business....
...For a woman in the business, she’s inspirational.”...
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