Hints and tips:
...BCG, which started investing in its AI business in 2015, has about 3,000 employees in its BCG X technology and design division....
...“Head of X”, in investment banking contexts, is often a vanity title; it just indicates there’s nobody more senior in the X business for that bank, which might not mean much....
...The Apple chief executive spent several days touring its factories and design studios, according to two people with knowledge of the trip....
...“Bridging the spending and savings gap that exists today [is] the next frontier for 401k design.”...
...Last week, a verdict was passed down in the case of Walkers Snack Foods Ltd v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, with first-tier tribunal judges Anne Fairpo and Sonia Gable ruling against...
...At the same time, good design is beautiful, and good designers deserve to be paid a premium for their work....
...Both advisers have also said Egon Durban, co-chief executive of venture capital group Silver Lake, should not return to Twitter’s board of directors because he is on too many other company boards....
...And really, it’s that way by design. Equity gets the returns and price appreciation if a company does great, and face the greatest risk if it fails....
...Other fairs around the world include Art X Lagos (November 2-5) and the ADAA’s 35th The Art Show in New York (November 2-5)....
...The Code has already led the largest social-media platforms, including YouTube, Instagram and TikTok to introduce design changes to their services, but problems remain....
...SoftBank buys into Rimac’s electric supercarSoftBank and Goldman Sachs have invested in Rimac in a €500mn funding round that gives the Croatian electric supercar maker and tech group a valuation of more...
...Boyle’s bio-series is never less than compelling — the story of the group’s deranged formation is simply inconceivable in the X Factor era — and full of witty moments....
...They buy a chunk of shares and hopefully a larger group of investors coalesce around them....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. You can build it, but will they come?...
...Generation X (like me) grew up revering the endless upgrades culture; today’s millennial and younger generations are leaping back into the future....
...“The producers and buyers of NFTs are overwhelmingly white and male,” says Tokini Peterside, founder of the Art X Lagos fair....
...Automation an automatic choiceJapan Inc has found a new purpose for automation: business continuity in the uncertain era of Covid-19....
...His first design was opened in 1954 in Detroit and the second in 1956 — the Southdale mall in Edina, Minnesota....
...Earlier this year saw the release of the NikeLab x Pigalle capsule sports collection, which inspired the design of the Beijing court....
...Microsoft’s Xbox Series S and X consoles go on sale....
...All four models have a new hardware look with flattened edges, the first such change to the phone’s design since the iPhone X in 2017....
...A US circuit court said as much as part of the 1979 case of Zweig v Hearst Corp, which found that a newspaper columnist touting a stock could be sued for securities fraud for failing to disclose he owned...
...John Levy, co-chief executive of Seeqc, a semiconductor design group focused on quantum computing, said it would be “extraordinary” to be able to pitch to X....
...The group is responsible for more than $2.4tn in assets....
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