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...The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov had English nannies (Miss Rachel, Miss Clayton, Miss Norcott). They were the reason he learnt to read and write in English, before Russian....
...There is no obvious candidate.” — Lou Spanos, Victoria, Australia...
...Don’t miss it: We’re five days away from the inaugural FT Dealmakers Summit....
...Meanwhile Chinese entrepreneurs are taking ideas proven at home into other emerging markets as well....
...Catalysts: Bakkavor's interim results on Sept 8th, data related to UK out-of-home food spend (e.g. weekly Barclays UK Spend Trends)....
...Propel has made 17 investments in fintechs from Coinbase, a bitcoin wallet, to online home insurer Hippo Insurance....
...This isn’t limited to professional recordings — remixes, amateur covers, and even home videos scored with unlicensed music are all monetisable....
...Reached on his mobile phone, Barber didn’t feel like talking. “My knee-jerk reaction is not to make this any more public than it needs to be,” he said....
...But it is not just the size of Gekko’s mobile phone that has shrunk since 1987....
...Clearwire, whose other strategic investors include Intel, Google and three leading US cable companies, has begun selling high-speed wireless internet access for the home and mobile to customers in some US...
...It was 2004 and America’s housing boom was near its height – 2.2m homes were started in the US that year and, if there was one thing they all needed inside and out, it was doors....
...At Bovis Homes Group, where Mobbs has been chairman since 1996, Tim Melville-Ross, senior independent director, takes over on the same basis....
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