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...“Pfizer is very good at selling but historically not renowned as having the R&D engine of a Merck or Lilly....
...Nick Jackson, who oversees vaccine R&D at the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, part of Covax, said it now feels “enormously relieved and quite vindicated” that it invested almost $400m in...
...Decoupling denied: Japan Inc is still laying its bets on China in spite of the US-China rift....
...For example, in an August 12, 2017 e-mail to Ripple Agent-2 and Ripple Agent-3, Garlinghouse raised concerns about XRP being “squarely left out” of a recent market “rally” and asked whether Ripple’s recent...
...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
...The “old man” is Tadros’s grandfather, Lucian R Ercolani; 100 years ago, he founded the company that furnished so many middle-class British homes through the second half of the 20th century....
...Moderna partnered with Lonza to increase vaccine manufacturing capacity up to 1 billion doses per year, which could provide Moderna with annual mRNA-1273 revenues of $10 billion....
...Meanwhile, R&D spending lags behind that of Asia and the US....
...Critics say it generates no benefit other than the tax breaks given to companies operating there, which next year are set to cost taxpayers R$30.2bn, according to the finance ministry....
...Others end, to borrow a song from Ms Whitman’s favourite musical genre, in “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”. The Lex team is interested in hearing more from readers. Has Meg Whitman finished her work at HPE?...
...Honda is in talks with the Thai government to begin manufacturing hybrids in the country. Leading candidates include its Jazz hatchback, HR-V SUV and City sedan....
...“We are going to see a significant step up in manufacturing capacity driven by China and Chinese demand.”...
...Solar’s price fall was especially steep after a Chinese manufacturing boom spurred global over-supply....
...Meanwhile, the company’s R&D as a percentage of sales, which has been falling since 2001, is creeping ever lower....
...E-mail the Lex team at lex@ft.com...
...Patrick and Tamar haven’t seen a great deal of each other in the past 25 years; one hopes that the playlist that accompanies their future trek is more Africa than D.I.V.O.R.C.E....
...Indian e-commerce — James Crabtree, Mumbai 2014 was the year Indian ecommerce finally grew up....
...PrimeVigilance Q Quorum Technologies R Recycling Lives Renishaw Research division of Vernalis (R&D) Rhead Group Roy Hatfield S Scientifica Seacon (europe) SecurEnvoy Severn Glocon Group Smart...
...As they struggle with cautious shoppers, an excess of stores, insufficient ecommerce and rising manufacturing costs, it is hard to find good chief executives....
...Dattaraj V. Salgaocar (V. M. Salgaocar Group) Harsh Pati Singhania (J.K. Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
.... http://reut.rs/Vqy1Ui Chinese groups await Cnooc-Nexen verdict Chinese resources companies are awaiting the outcome of a Canadian regulatory decision on an $18bn deal that could determine whether Chinese...
...Netflix came under heavy pressure on Tuesday as e-retailer Amazon signed a new content licensing agreement and increased its pressure on the internet streaming provider....
...R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Tim, twelve, was already competitive....
...tony.jackson@ft.com...
...In September, the US company MakerBot launched the Replicator 2, which offers the same access to desktop manufacturing that the PC did to desktop printing a few decades ago....
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