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...The deal is the latest sign of life in the enterprise IT market, following Cisco’s move to acquire data and security software company Splunk for $28bn in September and Broadcom’s $69bn acquisition of cloud...
...The irony is that its engineers navigated all those hurdles only for the project to be delayed, by among other things, that bane of 21st century life — troubles with the IT system....
...“Given the current capacity shortage, Samsung may give dedicated capacity to companies like Tesla, which uses chips with a longer life cycle,” said CW Chung, an analyst at Nomura....
...Fujitsu, the Japanese technology company, has used the crisis to pursue an overhaul of its seniority-based promotion system, establish a clearer view of its staff’s job skills and accelerate measures to...
...unique and relatively free way of life....
...Amazon has bought an online pharmacy and entered into a joint venture, Haven, with JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway, which aims to create a new kind of health insurance for the companies’ 1m employees....
...FWD is also in the early stages of planning an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter, but the company made no comment on those plans....
...insurance companies — a more rapid change than previously indicated....
...The bank said the deal is aimed at boosting Lloyds’ Scottish Widows business by bringing on board a newer technology system and about 500,000 customers from Zurich, the global insurance group....
...There were billions of dollars of losses for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation when Colonial went bust in 2009....
...The two-storey campus building is based on designs provided free of charge by Google. Cisco Systems installed the telecoms networks and some funding was provided by the government....
...The FSB has started looking beyond banking and insurance to other parts of the system that could pose wider risks if they blew up....
...The company now has two-factor authentication for its high-level system administrators....
...This propelled it to first place among insurers, outstripping the likes of China Life and the People’s Insurance Co of China, even though they far eclipse it in terms of premiums....
...BAE Systems (Aerospace) 54. Oracle (Technology) 55. Viacom (Media) 56. American Express (Finance) 57. PepsiCo (Consumer Goods) 58. UBS (Finance) 59. Standard Life (Insurance) 60....
...The 273-room property occupies the 213m-high “Clocktower” building on Madison Avenue, otherwise known as the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, which was the world’s tallest building when completed...
...Away from the formality of the town hall, Vogl, an administrator at the local university, is more confident, with a sharp tongue and dry wit....
...to the potentially life-saving treatment to patients in the world’s poorest countries....
...Patrick Pouyanné, chief executive of Total, said his company would be trimming about 10 per cent from last year’s $26bn budget for capital spending, while speeding up plans for billions of dollars in asset...
...“The holding company system has better transparency,” said Lee Wonil, founder of the activist hedge fund Zebra Investment Management....
...The company was let off with a warning last summer after it was a week late reporting a stake in a life insurance group, but the FTC sought legal action when it happened again....
...The companies lining up to provide the corporeal equivalents of the 10,000-mile check-up are some of the world’s best-known tech companies....
...The backlash stems from the way the Financial Stability Oversight Council has designated certain insurance companies as posing a risk to the financial system and its plans to widen the review to include...
...Mr Weiss, an investor in security companies and the former head of Cisco’s security business, says: “When you’re casing a place to find plans for the occidental pipeline I’m going to use the webcams and...
...JAL’s court-approved rehabilitation plan forced the company to stand up to its unions and drastically cut costs....
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