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...CK Hutchison....
...Monsanto....
...(FT) Dockwork ers v robots Dockworkers in Los Angeles are making a last stand against the automation of lucrative port jobs....
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...Think of the planned takeover of Monsanto, the US seeds group, by Bayer, the German pharmaceutical and chemical company (under examination), the merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont (approved), or the attempt...
...Bombarded Day two of the Bombardier v Boeing tariff scandal and attention has turned on the British government’s motivation to fight back against proposed US action against the Canadian company....
...And who else but a company backed by deal shark John Malone on the hunt for blockbuster M&A?...
...AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner and Bayer’s purchase of Monsanto) that are still pending approval from the competition watchdog....
...(BBC) Video of the day Google v Apple, round 2 As Google again draws level with Apple as the world’s largest company, John Authers looks at the historic performance of companies once they have become the...
...DAVID SNIVELYExecutive vice-president, secretary and general counsel Monsanto David Snively is general counsel for a controversial company....
...Recently, their targets have included a growing number of Chinese companies....
...It is just the latest in a protracted $2.6bn dispute over capital gains taxes allegedly due in connection with Vodafone’s acquisition of Hutchison Essar back in 2007....
...Hazel Forsyth, curator of the exhibition, puts it down to a mixture of politicking among the big London institutions, such as the British Museum and the V&A – including a battle for custody – and interest...
...Citi Investment Research and head of its Asian telecommunications research, made his mark by making the right calls – initially a “sell” that he later upgraded to a “buy” – during the taking private of Hutchison...
...Monsanto and DuPont are among the companies working on new corn variants that have the potential to ease prices by dramatically increasing the amount of corn that can be harvested from a single acre....
...In the west, glass-fibre-reinforced plastics, developed by Monsanto to protect radar equipment on US military aircraft, were re-worked into moulded furniture designed by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman...
...RBI governor Y.V. Reddy’s observation that “we needed an economist” hardly illuminates: they are not in short supply at the bank’s 25-storey tower in Mumbai....
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