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...On Sunday Usher, the R&B star whose hits dominated in the 2000s, anchored a half-time show with appearances by collaborators including Alicia Keys, H.E.R. and Ludacris....
...Even after the bond and loan offerings are completed, banks will be left holding billions of dollars of Nielsen debt....
...Titled The Lost Will of Dr Rant, it starred a young Leslie Nielsen, future star of comedy spoofs Police Squad!...
...According to the annual Nielsen report, hip-hop and R&B surpassed it as the dominant genre in the US in 2017. (Later than I had guessed.)...
...Lena Komileva: The 1930s....
...The announcement in June that MGM would make a live action Polly Pocket film, written by Lena Dunham of Girls fame and starring Lily Collins, brings the number of Mattel movies in the works to 13....
...Rasmus Bach Nielsen is head of fuel decarbonisation at Trafigura. The Commodities Note is an online commentary on the industry from the Financial Times...
...“If people get scared and stay at home, then precautionary savings will go up again and that could push us into another negative quarter of GDP,” said Erik Nielsen, chief economist at UniCredit....
...Written by refugees from high finance and directed by Lena Dunham, the show focuses on four trainees at prestigious investment bank Pierpoint (have a guess)....
...Some of the worst leveraged buyouts in history were club deals, including TXU, which was bought by a consortium including TPG and KKR, and the recent bankruptcy of Toys R Us, acquired by a group that included...
...The series, which depicts the unravelling of a seemingly picture-perfect family, has broken records to become the most watched Korean drama on cable television, according to Nielsen....
...Diane Coyle, Bennett professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge: Old problems — low investment, low levels of private R&D, inadequate infrastructure, the dysfunctional housing market, policy instability...
... Snags with the Nielsen strengths. We recognise the positive off-trade sales momentum as seen in Nielsen tracked channels (Europe, USA)....
...Chief executive Peder Holk Nielsen will leave Novozymes early next year, the big Danish biotech group said on Tuesday....
...In July, Alibaba suggested on social media that Baidu’s Xiaodu Play model had copied aspects of an earlier Tmall Genie R, charges Baidu denied....
...Now back to Shore Cap for a photo of some civet cats (R): For more on the coronavirus theme there’s a coronavirus tab on FT dot com, which we hope will offer up enough to sate your coronavirus appetite....
...This is most obvious in R&D and product development, where ConvaTec’s pipeline is at an all-time low....
...“Altran specialises in engineering and R&D services and the initial investor reaction seems to be questioning the rationale for such a lateral move....
...The rehabilitation of Waterstones was possible partly because, in the UK at least, the market share of ebooks appears to have peaked at about 26 per cent in 2014 and 2015, according to Nielsen....
...But analysts say that Nielsen's old-school data could win out....
...More recently Toys R Us went into administration having been owned by Bain Capital and KKR. But dealmakers argue worries about club deals gone sour are exaggerated....
...By 2017 Globo reached almost every corner of Brazil, with revenues topping R$14.8bn (then worth $4.5bn)....
...Last year, hip-hop and R&B surpassed rock to become the most popular type of music in the US for the first time, comprising 25 per cent of total music consumption, according to research group Nielsen....
...In another statement on Thursday, the White House added: In addition to the official delegation to the World Economic Forum, Chief of Staff John Kelly, National Security Advisor H.R....
...Nielsen, the data and ratings group, named David Kenny as chief executive as it faces activist pressure to break up. Kenny joins from IBM where he was a senior vice-president....
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