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...Lankum: False Lankum Shane MacGowan is gone but his spirit survives in Lankum....
...Garnett Station Partners, a New York-based investment firm, has appointed Shane Battier as a senior adviser. He is a former NBA player and team executive....
...This model has expanded access to contraceptive implants and vaccines to protect against rotavirus, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus, hepatitis B and hib....
...This summer, L’Oréal’s venture capital arm Bold invested in the start-up Debut, which specialises in “cell-free” ingredient manufacturing, leading a $34mn series-B round of funding....
...The unusually fast ramp-up could push production to 1.2mn b/d by 2027 — equivalent to about a third of Exxon’s current daily production....
...“Raising the series B took me a year. It took two weeks to raise the C,” she says....
...“People are frightened going long equities into the weekend,” said Mark Grant, chief global strategist at investment group B Riley FBR....
...But discount operations Primark, Aldi, B&M and others impinge on that generalisation. Properly run stores can still make money. Look instead at investment....
...S&P downgraded its credit rating for WeWork last week one notch from B to B- with a negative outlook on concerns about the company’s access to capital and governance practices....
...This is the first time two US B Corps have gone public this closely together, said B-Lab, the non-profit that certifies B Corps....
...A series of exhibition matches in 2015, organised by cricketing legends Shane Warne and Sachin Tendulkar amounted to little....
...Additional reporting by Henry Foy in Moscow, Jude Webber in Mexico City and Daniel Shane in Hong Kong...
...And the thing about Shane, Marc and John is I know they don’t think that. I feel completely confident around them.”...
...Henry Ford II, played by actor-playwright Tracy Letts with a B-movie snarl worthy of his po-mo stage and screen hit Killer Joe, ran the firm that developed the Ford Mustang GT40....
...(FT, NYT) In the news Huawei Plan B The Chinese company’s chipmaking arm said it had turned its “Plan Bs into Plan As overnight” a day after the Trump administration raised the prospect of a US ban on...
...In their April 20 advice to SAGE on face masks, the behavioural science subgroup SPI-B listed a whole host of concerns, some quite strange, such as the possible harassment of people not wearing coverings...
...Here is a boldly-going B-movie somewhere between Cheap Godzilla and Plan 9 from Outer Space. Black is surely being cheeky. We’re meant to giggle, aren’t we, at the dialogue?...
...Two of his key pieces of advice are “always have a plan B” and “hold investments for at least five years” — not that the latter would appeal to flippers....
...Shane Ross, Irish transport minister, stirred confusion over insurance this week when he was unable say whether motorists would be covered north of the border in the event of no-deal....
...On Monday, Mr Buffett donated $3.4bn of Class B shares to a number of charities, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Photo: Getty...
...A similar sized Series B financing announcement is expected shortly; this would push the company’s valuation close to $1bn....
...And if they don’t, the massed choirs of the Barmy Army will do it for them — mainly at the moment to the tune of Sloop John B....
.... ———- Three questions Abridged from a discussion with Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. What is the impact of Trump and Brexit?...
...Facebook partnered with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to match up to $1m in donations raised by fundraising campaigns on the social network, with up to $1,000 for each fundraiser....
...Mr Collymore is a board member of the charity Acumen and is one of the leaders of B Team, a non-profit organisation that promotes an environmentally responsible private sector....
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