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...It would never be obviously child porn, you know, inc come here and buy your images. So it was quite deceptive, I would say....
...John Kay is an FT contributing editor. johnkay@johnkay.com...
...“The PC business will continue to decline faster than the enterprise solutions business will grow,” said Roger Kay, an industry analyst at Endpoint Associates....
...talks to sell its unprofitable Vaio personal-computer operations to a Japanese investment fund [launched as a joint venture between Bain & Co. and Mizuho Securities Co. called Japan Industrial Partners Inc...
...Other major UK beauty exports include make-up artists such as Pat McGrath, Kay Montano, Lisa Eldridge and Charlotte Tilbury....
...“Small and medium-sized enterprises are not going to list but get acquired by the listed,” Prof Kay predicts. HSBC’s Mr Hoffman agrees....
...In his FT article, Mr Miliband said recent takeovers had offered stark examples of the “short-termism that blights British enterprise”....
...An industry that once seemed to exemplify a constructive relationship between private enterprise and public benefit is now widely detested. US customers face spiralling drug costs....
...These outcomes were the result of philanthropic and state action, which facilitated private enterprise....
...Such regulation fails to call managers effectively to account, while supervision that ruled out even the possibility of organisational failure would kill all enterprise....
...“They spent a lot of money bringing in this new talent and got precious little for it,” said Roger Kay, a veteran PC industry analyst....
...johnkay@johnkay.com More columns at www.ft.com/kay...
...Mr Coleman has worked at Gateway, CompuCom, and Arrow Electronics Enterprise Computing Solutions Group. Matti Viljo also moves in as vice president and general manager of Continental Europe....
...That was the point made by John Kay, in a superb column last week (this page, March 11)....
...It has teamed up with Blackstone and is paying an enterprise value of £1.6bn. The vendors, who invested in UB in 2001, say they have generated a return of 2.2 times the cost of their investment....
...The gap in performance is going to be tighter [in the second half], but enterprise customers who already have Opterons need more than a dead heat to reconsider.?...
...But the biggest growth in Chinese demand will come from what Dell calls “transactional” customers: small and medium-sized enterprises and consumers....
...Best wishes, John Kay www.johnkay.com...
...Fisher, Chairman, Gap, Inc....
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