Hints and tips:
...Books-wise, I am relishing Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March, a saga of fathers and sons set in the Austro-Hungarian empire....
...How many other companies would do the same? (Ethan Wu) One good read Forty-seven years after a murder, charges are filed....
...Black Cube’s previous clients have included Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood film producer, Beny Steinmetz, the Franco-Israeli mining magnate, and ENRC....
...All you need to add is a PC or Mac and, voilà, you’re ready to podcast. What’s in the box?...
...Additional reporting by Joseph Cotterill....
...The Weinstein trail details the difficulties in lining up sources so no one person is hung out to dry, but the lawyers Weinstein hires — David Boies and Lisa Bloom — somehow manage to seem more evil than...
...Worst of all, a black 33-year-old co-worker called Joseph Thomas died by suicide. His widow has said publicly that Uber’s work culture was to blame, claiming the company dismantled his self-esteem....
...“We’re saying it has to be a ceasefire, and they didn’t want to do a ceasefire,” said Mr Trump. “Now they do want to do a ceasefire. I believe it’ll probably work out that way.”...
...Don’t be true to yourself, do compare yourself to others and don’t save in your twenties. Above all do not follow your passion, as the common ones — music, writing — rarely pay the bills....
...“Finally we have a new board and chairman who hopefully will do the right thing, governing CBS in the right way and not let us get into trouble like we have in the past.”...
...All you have to do is do a Google search.”...
...Joseph Calleja tried out Cavaradossi for the first time at the opening of the new Grange Park Opera last summer....
...It’s in many ways comparable to the Harvey Weinstein case.”...
...“The view that somehow, because we are an organisation that exists to do good, our members only do good, could not be further from the truth,” he says....
...“I wondered if Harvey Weinstein [Sing Street’s executive producer] had got on the phone, and [Carney] was forced to do it,” he recalls....
...PC market still dying. Shipments fell 10.9 per cent in the second quarter, according to Gartner data (Bloomberg)....
...HP reported $28.4bn in revenues in the three months to the end of January, a 6 per cent decline year on year as PC sales suffered....
...“Renren has always been a leader in the social network niche in China, but the problem is China doesn’t need a social network on PC,” says Jiong Shao, an analyst with Macquarie....
...Dell has struggled to navigate the declining market for PC sales, and its shares have fallen by almost a third in the last year (Wall Street Journal)....
...“Do you think I’m the greatest poet for 100 years? No. Why then do people buy my books – not just in hundreds, not just in thousands but in tens of thousands? Because they want to....
...The BOJ chief reiterated a pledge to do what’s needed to meet the target in two years.”...
...What have inventories got to do with QE? – Oil market veteran Philip K....
...PC: Well, in fashion you do have the designers’ egos....
...But, as Joseph’s post points out, fourth-quarter PC shipment data is worth looking at to scent the smell of death here for just about the entire industry, and Dell especially. Here’s the FT’s take....
...Joseph’s post wonders how much finalisation was needed? (i.e. how much of a false market might have developed before the halt?)....
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