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...At one point there’s a reference to King Lear, but it’s Hamlet who comes to mind in the various existential meditations....
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...Succession may be a modern King Lear, but Shakespeare wrote more comedies than tragedies....
...The turn of events was captured by MG Siegler, a general partner at Google Ventures. Last week he tweeted: “Apple is playing checkers here while Epic is playing Fortnite.”...
...By 2050, further advances in recycling should make it possible for computers to be made entirely from recycled parts — including microchips which require a demanding level of purity, says David Lear, Dell...
...This is peak content,” said Marty Kaplan, a former vice-president at Disney’s film studio and now the Norman Lear professor of entertainment, media and society at the University of Southern California....
...He notes too that the televised King Lear and The Dresser have casts “that you would never see on stage”: “Hopkins won’t do theatre . . ....
...King Lear remains a fine case study of succession planning gone horribly wrong....
...Ultimately, Mr Murdoch’s story is also a family drama, with the complex personal and professional relationships he has maintained with his adult children, Lachlan, James and Elisabeth, playing out like King Lear...
...Cai von Rumohr, an analyst at Cowen and Co, said the job cuts underscored tough conditions in the business jet market and the potential for a sale of its Lear jet unit to Textron, a rival manufacturer....
...Shares in auto suppliers such as Delphi, Visteon and Lear all rose on Monday following the deal....
...Bombardier voiced concern about the state of the market for light business aircraft such as its Lear jet, but executives would not be drawn on whether they might, as previously rumoured in the market, consider...
...Runcible’s name is not so much borrowed from the “runcible spoon” of The Owl and the Pussycat, the nonsense poem by Edward Lear, but from the Seattle science fiction writer Neal Stephenson....
...In their view the boss matters hugely and the restructuring — which, like Lear’s, sets up a succession — matters hugely....
...I wonder how an economics graduate who worked in branding picked up those skills and he mentions his break with Norman Lear....
...Better King Lear than Waiting for Godot? brooke.masters@ft.com...
...dick costolo (@dickc) September 12, 2013 Of Twitter’s three co-founders, Ev Williams, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey, only Mr Dorsey allowed himself to reminisce: The (obvious) post that launched Twitter, Inc...
...“By killing the flower,” wrote MG Siegler in TechCrunch, another news outfit, “Google could also kill the bees.” Ah, bees!...
...MG Siegler of TechCrunch argued that Apple’s lead in mobile gives the company an edge over competitors because as other smartphone makers play catch up, Apple “perfects their trick,” Siegler wrote....
...Think of it as the sea receding before a tidal wave hits,” wrote MG Siegler on his blog Parislemon. Also this week, Apple released Mountain Lion, the latest Mac operating system....
...The winter sunlight barely touches the depths of the abandoned store, where wires dangle from the ceiling, wood shavings scatter the floor, a King Lear shelf marker lies on the stairs, and a Led Zeppelin...
...As mentioned by the FT’s Tim Bradshaw, several commentators, such as MG Siegler, questioned whether the update will create antitrust issues for Google....
...Those who have seen the app say it is “pretty fantastic,” MG Siegler reports....
...In a response to a post by MG Siegler, who wrote that the release of iPhone 4S and holiday shopping contributed to Apple’s massive numbers, Ben Brooks of The Brooks Review wrote that his “bet” is that...
...MG Siegler, a long-time Apple champion in the blogosphere, suggests that the device is likely to go on sale in mid-March but could miss the SXSW tech event in Austin, Texas where Apple sold plenty of iPads...
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