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...In the 1990s and early 2000s, Weill engineered a series of megamergers in an attempt to realise his vision for a financial supermarket that could offer consumers and corporations a one-stop shop for banking...
...Between 2000 and 2008, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued 1,243 new insured commercial bank charters, an average of 138 a year....
...From a December press release: Liberty Media Corporation (“Liberty Media” or “Liberty”) (Nasdaq: LSXMA, LSXMB, LSXMK, FWONA, FWONK, LLYVA, LLYVK) and Sirius XM Holdings Inc....
...“Everybody is a smartphone user now, and one of the jurors is a Fortnite player, and it was good to see,” said Sweeney....
...One good read Why should being in prison stop you from making millions stealing from billionaires?...
...His early audience of a few thousand Canadians turned to Vice for its subversive articles about music, fashion, drugs and sex — topics that remained a core part of the brand....
...Public broadcaster National Public Radio has decided to stop using Twitter, becoming the first big US news organisation to go silent on the platform, a week after a “state-affiliated media” label was added...
...The Microsoft-Activision deal is a “vertical merger”, where a leading distribution platform buys a leading content maker. Such deals would probably not have attracted much interest five years ago....
...This isn’t just ‘the buck stops at the top’, it’s that ‘the buck stops with the guy who headed the supply chain.’ And Tim is the master of supply chain.”...
...“This is a bridge too far in a case already replete with questionable manipulations of the bankruptcy code by one of the wealthiest corporations on earth,” the states wrote in the filing....
...Using less packaging on just one brand of toys could save $2.4mn a year, Scott observed....
...Activision would bring a big new online audience for Microsoft to tap as it tries to feed this subscription base, with 400m people a month accessing one of Activision’s games online....
...Some realised “they didn’t necessarily want to work for a large corporation”; others struck out in search of more autonomy....
...Vaccine distribution and shop reopenings will put a stop to high-end food boxes. Meal kit companies such as Blue Apron will struggle to keep the attention of customers when lockdowns end....
...“They need to stop building empires [for other people],” he says....
...Corporation, in a £14.2bn deal....
...From one half-Canadian to the world: have a good Canada Day! But stay cool....
...“Corporations invest their cash in very high quality, short-term fixed income securities, and are willing to accept a relatively low rate of return,” said Jerry Klein, a managing director at Treasury Partners...
...And WhatsApp will also face some regulatory hurdles: the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is bringing in a cap of 30 per cent of total UPI transactions for any company, to avoid one service...
...Google to stop setting its search engine as the default....
...A quintessential mom-and-pop retailer, Norman’s is situated in a one-traffic-light town....
...An ethics purveyor’s ethical dilemma Dov Seidman (pictured below) is a bestselling author on business ethics who, according to one reporter at Fortune magazine, “resembles a younger, less pumped-up but...
...The companies being purged by the pension include: Imperial Oil, Canadian Natural Resources, MEG Energy Corp., Athabasca Oil Corporation, Cenovus Energy, and Japan Petroleum Exploration....
...Each package has a thermometer linked to GPS, which tracks its temperature and location across Pfizer’s distribution network....
...Johnson & Johnson will stop selling its baby talcum powder in the US and Canada, where sales have dropped amid a wave of litigation claiming that the personal care product can cause cancer....
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