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...advantages from, and political influence over, Europe’s largest economy....
...Schwarzenberg became Havel’s chief of staff: “The grumpy looking man always in the background” he said....
...Combs’ background is insurance; the 53-year-old got his start at Progressive....
...She helped pitch and launch Peacock, Comcast’s streaming service, in 2020, generating $1bn in upfront revenue within two years....
...“They all seem [to be] too much trouble,” he said, as First Republic drama played out in real time on a television screen airing CNBC in the background....
...Nearly two-thirds of participants believed MBAs were not an advantage for running a business....
...It is against this background that Totoki will be promoted to president and chief operating officer from April....
...Musk’s background in online banking may give him an advantage in adding payments to social media, though Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey runs payments platform Block and has not managed to meld the two....
...“History suggests that when a political leadership considers starting a war, those kinds of considerations fade into the background....
...Only in the 1990s did Murdoch see advantage in buying them out....
...DS: First of all, as background, everyone in the industry that is selling advertising is trying to get more and more data and conduct deeper and deeper surveillance of consumers....
...Miller encourages the lawyers to be proactive and has defined the legal team’s purpose as “to power and protect Nike’s competitive advantage”....
...kadhim@ft.com / sid.v@ft.com...
...One of the central advantages the government has is they are the government. They therefore seem more serious....
...“When I first got here [in 2017], I asked, ‘Why can’t we get this stuff done?’”...
...One result of the ample cash, along with the company’s access to its own launch service, has been Starlink, which has beaten would-be rivals like OneWeb and Amazon’s Kuiper to launch its broadband service...
...About the war, Dvorkovich told Mother Jones magazine, “My thoughts are with Ukrainian civilians.”...
...“It’s incumbent on the US to be probing for weaknesses and trying to take advantage of those, and it’s incumbent on the Russians and on the Chinese to do the same.”...
...Some of those rivals — like AMD and Nvidia — have taken advantage of their TSMC relationship to leap ahead with new designs that in many cases offer better performance than Intel chips....
...Time to dive head first to an inevitable death, with no hope of survival....
...The V&A’s London press view last week for its exhibition Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser was its first foray into virtual reality and it is one of several museums investigating whether VR could offer vital...
...Tech tools — Parasite Zoom backgrounds The novelty of changing your virtual background for video conferencing can wear off as quickly as swapping Windows wallpapers, but I’m tempted to use this bathroom...
...Mr Trump’s efforts to keep his tax returns private have another unanimous precedent weighing against them: the 1997 decision in Clinton v Jones that sitting presidents are not immune from civil lawsuits...
...Economists say a V-shaped recovery is unlikely. Even then it could be two Vs stuck together – a W, in other words....
...A local school’s in two of the Indiana Jones films pretending to be Connecticut....
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