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...But, of course, there’s a reason why it’s widely called Shitibank; the sprawling, gormless Citi has for a v v v very long time proven adept at blithely ambling onto various rakes around the world....
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...Players of Fortnite, developed by Epic, were able to purchase an in-game currency known as “V-bucks” online, but these credits would not show up when playing on the iPhone....
...After such strong reads from the first two releases (three if we count Russia’s Sputnik V), the disappointing AZN figures were perhaps bound to prompt downward pressure on the company’s shares....
...running a privately owned business to a public company....
...“I would say that, as a team, we've pretty well discounted a uniform V-shaped recovery. The question is, is it U-shaped, is it W-shaped or parts of it L-shaped?”...
...Business groups and think-tanks are making a mistake to cast Uber v London as a totemic fight to preserve capitalism....
...Even Toyota, one of the world’s most financially robust carmakers, is exploring a new credit line with banks to boost its balance sheet. Protecting jobs is another top priority....
...And now a fifth expect a “V-shaped” economic recovery, up from a 10th in the previous month....
...On the last Sunday of April 2019, a sleek Gulfstream V jet belonging to Occidental Petroleum touched down at Omaha airport....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...Over the next decade he worked his way up the US business with positions including district manager and director of new and smokeless products under the Marlboro brand....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...Retailers will be charged an average of 40 per cent less on purchases made in the European Economic Area using Mastercard, Maestro, Visa, Visa Electron and V-PAY credit and debit cards issued in countries...
...JIMMY: If you think the sneaker business is worth $1 billion, just imagine what the counterfeit sneaker business is worth. UPSCALE: The counterfeit business is insane right now....
...He credits Uber with delivering the functionality to make a novel legal idea work in the real world. “The technical people there never said ‘no’,” he says....
...That assumed a “reduction in charger fraud, restructuring of mechanic program, and batching credit card charges.”...
...While he is not opposed in principle to Big Tech’s business models or deal making, he is concerned about abuse of a dominant position....
...Unlike private equity, business school drones struggle to break into the industry....
...Facebook v YouTube: contrasting approaches The music business has been intermittently at odds with technology platforms for decades, since digital piracy ravaged the sector’s traditional business model....
...Exchanges, business groups and the leadership of the Securities and Exchange Commission have decried the trend and are seeking ways to encourage listings....
...In fact, we think Avis deserves a lot of credit for running a tight ship and managing the company well in a challenging environment....
...The company’s executives credit the turnround to its high-tech cable box called the X1 — a robot-esque TV guide that Comcast compares to Amazon’s digital assistant, Alexa....
...Adrian Bender joins as a portfolio adviser from Amundi, the French asset manager. Sergey Goncharov has moved from Russian lender Sberbank in Moscow to the position of credit analyst....
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