Hints and tips:
...Son bought the Woodside estate 11 years ago, paying $117.5mn — then the most for a US residential property — to acquire the property from Tully Friedman, co-founder of private equity giant Hellman & Friedman...
...In a rare win at a tightly contested extraordinary meeting last month, shareholders in elevator maker Fujitec approved four out of six candidates for non-executive directors that were proposed by Oasis to...
...Mickey Mouse meets Sin City sounds like a bad elevator pitch for a film. But it is true. Family-friendly Disney will work with Penn Entertainment on sports betting....
...Or take Swirl, the Slack add-on that randomly pairs up coworkers for informal chats, rekindling the serendipitous in-person experience of chatting in the office kitchen or elevator with a co-worker....
...Activists Cevian and Elliott have come in and pushed for the most profitable division, elevators, to be split off....
...The $16bn race to buy Thyssenkrupp’s elevator unit may reach its conclusion while the conference is under way....
...Vy Le, co-founder of Do Ventures, said the country must capitalise on this moment....
...“If I’m in an elevator [with other bankers], I am thinking about the elevator operator, or thinking of the taxi driver’s name, and where his kids are from,” he says. “I’m not trying to be cute....
...Who is going to co-ordinate connecting a private construction project to a critical piece of transport infrastructure underground?...
...Executives, film directors and innovators are urged to hone their “elevator pitch”....
...The Connecticut-based maker of goods ranging from elevators to jet engines said it now forecasts adjusted 2017 earnings per share of $6.58 to $6.63, up from $6.45 to $6.60....
...United Technologies, which makes aircraft components and equipment for buildings, has faced difficulties in China, the largest market for its Otis elevator division....
...He is due to take on the roles of co-president and co-chief operating officer....
...Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder, began work on its new headquarters a decade ago, just as the original iPhone launched....
...The latest deal, which includes motors and drives for elevators and factory robots, will provide Nidec with a strong brand and customer base especially in Europe and North America where its presence is still...
...A merged company might be able to sell enhanced building control systems alongside UTC’s Otis elevators....
...Silicon Valley’s ambition knows no bounds, from Google researching space elevators to Facebook and Twitter investor Yuri Milner reaching for the stars....
...This means the data being thrown off by cars, aeroplane engines, elevators and other industrial products, supplying the raw material to turn dumb manufactured goods into what he calls “systems of intelligence...
...There are many perplexing anecdotes in the book by Metro Bank chairman and co-founder Vernon Hill, but one stands out as particularly difficult to believe....
...For a selection of elevator pitches from entrepreneurs at Web Summit, check out Daniel Garrahan’s video report from the conference. Flag as important You rang m’lady?...
...“I got off of the elevator one day and sat down at my desk and all the pictures on my desk of my mom and dad, my brother, my sister were all different human beings....
...United Technologies reported sharp declines in its Chinese elevator and air conditioner businesses in July, too....
...The Birches spent five years renovating the five-storey, 60,000 sq ft building, once home to a marble factory and a candy maker (in a nod to Willy Wonka, it even has a great glass elevator)....
...The western military market is now in a downturn, and this is a factor behind plans unveiled this week by United Technologies Corporation, the elevator and aircraft engine maker, to spin off Sikorsky, its...
...The case has parallels with a lawsuit filed in February by the Swiss group Schindler Elevator, against the directors of Hyundai Elevator, in which it has a large minority stake....
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