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...Media advertising veteran Jonathan Phelps has been tasked with soliciting business from Democratic groups. Semafor first reported the sales target and some of X’s recent hires....
...Its Alibaba investment has been its golden goose since SoftBank’s founder Masayoshi Son led a $20mn funding round for Jack Ma’s ecommerce start-up more than two decades ago....
...“It is true there has been a waning of interest over the past two years,” said Jack Inglis, AIMA’s chief executive....
...Since then, the wearable fitness tracker has donned the wrists of legends from LeBron James to Michael Phelps, with A-list investors including golfer Rory McIlroy and the basketball player Kevin Durant’s...
...That’s when China ran away with most of the gold medals — even though the west focused on the accomplishments of the US swimmer Michael Phelps....
...BHS has capitalised on customers’ nostalgia with a viral marketing campaign, organised around a Union Jack superimposed with the words “come on Britain” and the hashtag “#SaveBHS”....
...He has 12 Olympic medals, second only to Michael Phelps among US male Olympians. Lochte lost four major sponsors early this week over the controversy, including Speedo USA and Ralph Lauren....
...Administrators Duff & Phelps are scrambling to find a buyer willing to take on all 164 BHS stores and the chain’s 11,000 staff....
...Recuperating from his latest back surgery, unable even to kick a soccer ball with his kids, all he does is play video games, at which he has passed Jack Nicklaus but nobody knows or cares....
...Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change, by Edmund Phelps, Princeton, RRP£19.95/$29.95 Phelps, a Nobel laureate in economics, defies categorisation....
...Yes, the Next Michael Phelps told the New York Times on the weekend his post-swimming goal was to make clothes....
...Short of inviting the Spice Girl Geri Halliwell in her Union Jack dress, it is hard to think what more the Beeb could have done to wrap itself in the flag....
...Swimmer Michael Phelps might look like a champion in America but over here the 14-times gold medallist would have been shown up for what he really is: a big, needy show-off....
...Phelps Dodge fell 0.7 per cent to $122.87, from an earlier high of $124.75....
...Phelps Dodge, the copper producer, slipped 3.9 per cent to $92.05 as copper futures fell. Defence stocks were also in focus after further reports that the Pentagon plans massive spending cuts....
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