Hints and tips:
...Apple isn’t trying to become a bank in any official sense, with a charter and all the bailout perks that go with it....
...As Hastings talks about social injustice, I recall his mini-forays into politics, from tech lobbying to spending millions promoting charter schools in California....
...Apollo Global and Oaktree bought Charter Communications out of bankruptcy. 2020 would seem like a chance for a repeat....
...The deal is classic Liberty in that it gets clout in a company that it will not control. “Control is a relative word,” says Mr Maffei. “We need to have influence....
...(FT) Japan Inc goes global for M&A advice Only three domestic brokerages rank among the top-ten deal advisers in Japan during the third quarter. Why is Japan Inc looking for foreign advice?...
...The three-way deal to combine Charter, TWC and Bright House Networks, a smaller cable operator, is a classic Malone deal with a fiendishly complex structure aimed at delivering the maximum amount of influence...
...US cable giants Comcast and Time Warner Cable, which had been pursued by rival Charter Communications, tied the knot. Charter walked away with some of the deal’s disposals....
...Another shareholder said: “It’s a classic corporate board who cannot see beyond the status quo....
...Under industry charters, companies commit to criteria, including raising black ownership, that are aimed at benefiting those disadvantaged by apartheid....
...There is much for observers to enjoy in seeing two acquisitive machines at war offering (potentially) the classic choice between the immediacy of cash and the allure of future upside....
...Liu Xiaobo, a leading Chinese dissident, was recently sentenced to 11 years in prison for his involvement in the Charter 08 movement that advocates democratic reforms....
...The charter business was also hit by lower prices....
...A counterpoint to this argument is that while the Jockey Club owns – Ascot apart – racing’s greatest cash-cow venues, income generated by them stays within the sport under the terms of the Royal Charter....
...They feature her signature “glammed-up preppy” classics, styles inspired by her favourite vintage Pierre Cardin and Courreges....
...Famed investor Joel Greenblatt puts it well in his classic book, You Can Be A Stock Market Genius: “When a business and its management are freed from a large corporate parent, pent-up entrepreneurial forces...
...Jim Collins and Jerry Porras’s analysis of “visionary companies”, in their 1994 classic Built to Last, remains the key text in this area....
...Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition on Thursday of IGN Entertainment, a San Francisco internet company, completes a classic dotcom storyline....
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