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...Appels, a percussive piece — rainsticks, kettledrums, bells — by French-Mexican new wave R&B artist Andrea Balency-Béarn was followed by Cage Letters, a piano setting of three of John Cage’s love letters...
...Parks was the festival’s joyous starting gun, mixing R&B with hip-hop, electronic experimentalism with west African influences....
...As Siegfried in Swan Lake act two, Dmitri Legupski (Giovanni Goffredo) makes his way centre stage with that teasing, foot-dragging walk (© R Nureyev) as if about to dazzle us with a solo variation, only...
...This candy-coloured, streamlined ensemble work is danced to a party tape of hip-hop, R&B and soul songs culminating in Natalie Cole’s clapalong hit “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)”, an energising sugar-drip...
...“Pfizer is very good at selling but historically not renowned as having the R&D engine of a Merck or Lilly....
...We should aim to at least double R&D as a share of GDP (public and private funding together)....
...My desk diary for 2012 had “R&J Polunin” inked in for March 10, but there is a red line through it because the Ukrainian star, who was scheduled to learn a string of major roles that season, had a total...
...Last week, BRB was on home turf with a double bill (Carlos Curates: R&J Reimagined), pegged to its revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet....
...The works will be split between London’s Tate, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens (EMST), the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum and Foundation and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago....
...DD is expecting CD&R, which is working with Goldman Sachs, to return with an improved offer....
...It is a delicate ecosystem, with the subsidised sector often acting as R&D for the sector as a whole. How this ecosystem can survive and adapt is yet to be seen....
Americans working in R&D at company’s China headquarters told to leave premises
...According to European Commission data, Huawei last year ranked fifth in terms of absolute R&D spending, behind Samsung, Alphabet, automaker Volkswagen and Microsoft....
...“The starting point is very deep R&D pockets followed by the best engineers in the industry. SMIC has neither. TSMC [of Taiwan] has both.”...
...Artists on show will include Ai Weiwei, Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin....
...R&D Huawei spent $13.8bn or 15 per cent of sales on research and development last year and plans to increase spending to as much as $20bn a year....
...smartphones this year — having overtaken Apple in sales in the second quarter — and aims to spend up to $20bn a year on research and development, after last year spending $13.8bn, or 15 per cent of sales, on R&...
...Designs are inspired by “the interiors in Eric Rohmer films and those of favourite artists: Agnes Martin, Chris Ofili and Tal R”....
...Advisers to Huawei point out to two further pages from its playbook that help cement its position: influence in R&D, and boots on the ground....
...Analysts said it may be forced to delay its next vehicle, trim R&D spending or cut some of its more ambitious projects, such as offering to swap batteries for its vehicles while on the road....
...But Sandy and Asante (old schoolfriends) have an easy rapport as compères and the two big showpieces, Karnival 2.0 and Project R.E.B.E.L., are a cunning blend of well-drilled amateurs and genuine virtuosi...
...“Huawei has increased its R&D expenditure and owns about 10 per cent of 5G essential payments,” he wrote. Mr Hu said R&D spending would be directed at talent, technology, equipment and partnerships....
...Alibaba is pouring $15bn into R&D, and many of the big tech groups are running joint innovation labs with the government....
...Huawei is pledging to spend $10bn to $20bn on R&D a year and plans to launch a 5G smartphone in 2019. That hits a key pain point for Washington....
...“Tencent’s value in Naspers has just become too large,” wrote Albert Saporta of AIM&R, a Swiss investment firm which has not disclosed the size of its stake in the company....
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