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...Microsoft is the prime example here, but there is also Oracle vs Google, Motorola vs Qualcomm, assorted efforts to restrain Google’s ad business, and so on....
...Well Swampians, I hardly know where to begin with the Apple vs Department of Justice antitrust mega-case, which came down last week and will probably run for years....
...Weingarten: Corporations are not monolithic. Look at the difference right now between Microsoft and Amazon. There’s a difference in strategy....
...In today’s newsletter: Trump’s Spac for Truth Social Altice vs creditors Carvana used car miracle DWAC: the Spac that could save Trump There is one person who holds a trump card in the deal between...
...The US Department of Justice vs Google trial began last week — the biggest since Microsoft. When, Lex wonders, will private equity receive the same scrutiny?...
...Arrival has named Igor Torgov, a former Microsoft executive who has worked at the UK electric-van start-up for two years, as chief executive amid plans to shed about half its remaining workforce to prevent...
...Risk vs reward The arrival of US funds such as Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz in Europe speaks to global interest in the continent....
...Tune in to hear how banks are setting goals leading up to 2050, and the growing debate around absolute emissions vs carbon intensity....
...(FT) Big Tech vs Little Tech A new generation of Chinese start-ups has been selected by Beijing in a state-sponsored effort to take on Silicon Valley....
...Chart du jour: Vaccines vs variants New research suggests the BioNTech/Pfizer jab is less effective at stopping the Delta variant than previously thought....
...That completes handovers among almost an entire generation of Big Tech founders/chief executives, from Google’s Larry Page to Microsoft’s Bill Gates....
...from Unilever to Microsoft....
...‘Malinformation’ vs ‘disinformation’ The notion of disinformation wars, though long in existence, came into its own in the wake of the 2016 US presidential elections that brought Trump to power....
...More importantly, companies like Microsoft and Apple were already returning that cash — albeit in a roundabout way....
...And Microsoft has said it will include basic Internet access tools in its Windows 95 desktop operating system and Microsoft Exchange E-mail and messaging software....
...China invested less in basic research compared to most OECD economies at 4 per cent vs 17 per cent in 2013....
...Any dollar paid by Microsoft would reduce the tax bill at the shareholder level....
...Einhorn vs the mystery tech basket. Ubben vs Microsoft and Google. Loeb vs Sotheby’s. Peltz vs Pepsi. Ackman vs HerbAllerMae. Icahn vs… the limits of his own intensity. Activists are getting busier....
...Walter’s article: In May 1991, AT&T acquired computer manufacturer NCR Corporation for $110 per share in what was to that date the largest-ever computer industry merger....
...Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft Marc Levinson’s The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Princeton) was published in 2006 but I read it just this year,...
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...Google v Microsoft, Microsoft v Everyone)....
...Background: In Depth: EU vs Microsoft About the experts: Professor Harry First has been a faculty member at New York University School of Law since 1976, teaching courses in antitrust, regulated industries...
...Microsoft/Yahoo 2. Hybrid securities 3. Dollar weakness 4. Return on Capitol 5. Goldman Sachs 6. Leveraged buy-outs 7. Bank expansion 8. Emerging market mega-corporations 9....
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