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...RedBird IMI, the US-based investment group run by Jeff Zucker and Gerry Cardinale, has emerged as frontrunner to buy All3Media, the UK TV and film production business behind Fleabag and Call The Midwife....
...Jeff Emmick, Eli Lilly’s senior vice-president of product development, said that while as many as 80mn US adults may suffer from obstructive sleep apnoea, about a quarter of whom face more serious symptoms...
...In 2022 he beat Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Netflix’s Ted Sarandos by becoming the first streamer to win an Oscar for Best Picture with CODA, a film it acquired for $22mn at the Sundance Film Festival....
...The BBC’s investigations team is led by former detective Jeff Brown....
...But Jeff Ifrah, founder of iDEA Growth, a lobbying group representing betting apps, says the backlash against advertising is based on little more than “shooting from the hip and assumptions that people make...
...Meanwhile, the Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin rocket reaches 62 miles in a flight of just 11 minutes; since its first crewed flight in 2021, passengers have included the Star Trek actor William Shatner, the...
...Later, entrepreneurs such as Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson began developing commercial space travel, but Rush turned his sights elsewhere....
...Email Jo at jo.ellison@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Banter is better at the pub / From Judy Barnes, Swansea, UK...
...In 2011, as the might of Jeff Bezos’s juggernaut shook publishing, Daunt was called in to rescue Waterstones from threatened extinction. Now he is attempting to repeat the trick....
...GECAS was the largest remaining unit of GE Capital, which had ballooned into the world’s largest nonbank finance company before what former GE chief executive Jeff Immelt called the “near-death experience...
...It is backed by an all-party parliamentary group chaired by MPs Jeff Smith and Crispin Blunt and will be sent to Westminster this week....
...As Welch’s successor Jeff Immelt puts it in his new book, writes the FT’s Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, the theory was “don’t look at the elements that make up the Blob, just look at the results”....
...Jeff Bezos’s creation is remorseless. Amazon moving into your sector is like a stag do arriving in your restaurant: someone’s going to have fun, and it’s not going to be you....
...Then again, perhaps it will have been vanquished by an upstart able to do what Amazon has done to Barnes & Noble and IBM....
...In a memo, chief executive Jeff Bezos encouraged staff to cancel meetings and take advantage of the online learning opportunities the company is providing for its global workforce, including warehouse employees...
...Her second album bears the imprint of dance music from the late 1980s and 1990s, the likes of Frankie Knuckles and Jeff Mills....
...The CEO of Barnes & Noble then explained his plan to defend himself against dotcom companies such as eToys: he said he hoped that eToys would implement the advertising strategy as discussed....
...by fees from the explosive growth in private equity, aggressive poaching of talent and — most of all — a business model that resembles a freewheeling investment bank, Kirkland under the chairmanship of Jeff...
...Jeff DiModica, president of Starwood Property Trust, one of the lenders, called it “a really smart trade on a really beautiful building”....
...Along with other big names in US retail, the department store chain’s chairman and chief executive Jeff Gennette had predicted a bumper festive shopping season....
...The addition of e-books to Walmart’s online store in the US will be made through Rakuten Kobo e-book devices, which compete against Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s Nook device....
...“Consumers were ready to spend this season,” chief executive Jeff Gennette said on Thursday. However, investors remained sceptical that earnings forecasts should be permanently raised....
...In the early years of Amazon, Jeff Bezos was clear that he needed to get ahead of rivals such as Barnes & Noble and Toys R Us, even if it meant chaos within Amazon....
...The addition of ebooks to Walmart’s online store in the US will be made through Rakuten Kobo, which compete with Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and offer access to almost 6m titles....
...Ten years ago, as Jeff Bezos launched the Kindle ereader in New York, he declared that “the book is so highly evolved and so suited to its task that it’s very hard to displace”....
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