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...On the longer-term challenges, we should be debating more radical approaches....
...“We are in the business of innovation.”...
...The same considerations could discourage Microsoft from a radical overhaul of its Bing search engine, which generated more than $11bn of revenue last year....
...Its authors say they are not currently exploring the most radical step being suggested to end conflicts of interest....
...Blackstone has appointed Stevi Petrelli as head of innovations investments, overseeing deals involving early-stage technology companies. She joins from Goldman Sachs....
...Sifted also dives into the thriving ecosystems of Austrian start-ups and Finnish start-ups as part of a series mapping some of the continent's lesser-known innovation hubs....
...It encouraged radical worker empowerment, and is now dealing with the consequences. But the software and culture that Google is grappling with has spread far beyond Silicon Valley....
...Antitrust experts believe the overhaul to digital competition laws is both radical and necessary....
...In an early-stage proposal document, Sidewalk said: “Cities will only meet their growth challenges if they support innovation . . . to do so requires designing for radical flexibility, enabling the best...
...The move followed local opposition to what the company said would be an enabler of digital innovation and co-operation....
...One radical idea doing the rounds is that watchdogs should curtail their aggressive gobbling up of smaller firms....
...If you wanted to be truly radical, it might be possible to devise a system where consumers were able to “own” their data and to sell it for a price....
...tim.harford@ft.com Letter in response to this article: The future is here and written in Chinese radicals / From Patrick Dransfield, Kowloon, Hong Kong...
...In enlisting pharma as a partner in its ambitious endeavour to improve the health of its population, Manchester offers a template for radical changes, both in how patients are treated and how quickly new...
...It may also act as poison to innovation and competition....
...First, greater competition and innovation are essential for stimulating real data markets. Big Tech should not be allowed to stifle smaller upstarts....
...Others want more radical designs, such as those that use coolants other than water, to receive government support....
...Monday marks the official launch of the Bank of England’s “Term Funding Scheme” - the central bank’s latest policy innovation designed to cushion the potential impact from low interest rates on the UK’s...
...So here is a radical idea. Mr Zuckerberg should amend his pledge and announce he will pay normal taxes on his wealth — say 30 per cent — and invest 69 per cent in his philanthropic LLC....
...The so-called catapult, which opened last year, is backing about 100 businesses with radical ideas that inject technology into the transport sector....
...However, it is almost certain that prospects for a big innovation that validates his anxiety have been increased by very high oil prices....
...Bill Ruprecht, who Mr Loeb had said lacked the “innovation or inspiration” to lead the auction house, stood down by mutual consent, six months after Third Point joined the board of the auction house....
...Third Point said it had urged management to “seriously consider” the “radical option” of breaking itself into two distinct businesses, an increasingly common demand made by activist investors....
...Mr Loeb’s proposal for the entertainment division is not especially radical....
...The disadvantage of debt in the context of student loans is not a radical leftist idea. Even Milton Friedman recognized problems with student debt....
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