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...In the same week, across the Atlantic, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak used Twitter to announce his intention of making the UK a “global crypto assets hub,” and in San Francisco, new start-up...
...Players of Fortnite, developed by Epic, were able to purchase an in-game currency known as “V-bucks” online, but these credits would not show up when playing on the iPhone....
...Abtin Jalali and Chris Harding have joined the firm’s San Francisco office as partners....
...Mr Cook said that if another employee, an Apple Maps analyst from Peru known as W.V., had to leave the country, “his supervisor worries, ‘I don’t know if his replacement would be able to do what he can do...
...Francisco and Don Weinland in Beijing....
...The legal cases included a $30bn licensing dispute that went to trial on Monday, in which Apple was joined by four of its contract manufacturers in a suit against Qualcomm in San Diego....
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...‘Everybody’s been looking for the sign’ “It has been quite a week,” said Lise Buyer, who advises companies on their initial public offerings at Class V Group....
...The San Francisco-based company has hired the IPO advisory firm Class V, which was founded by Lise Buyer, a former investor and investment banker who worked on Google’s 2004 public offering....
...On Tuesday, a three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed a lower court’s grant of class-action status to the drivers represented by the suit and said Uber could compel...
...The San Francisco-based rivals are both looking to launch initial public offerings in 2019....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...One of his touchstones for anti-competitive behaviour is the late 1990s US v Microsoft case, in which the company was found guilty of using its operating system monopoly to stifle competitors like Netscape...
...You could call it “Cook v Zuck”. In one corner, Tim Cook, the cautious veteran trying to rise above the fray. In the other, Mark Zuckerberg, the embattled upstart with a lot to prove....
...On May 3, 2018, the Company and its subsidiary Tesla Motors Netherlands B.V. entered into the Ninth Amendment (the “Ninth Amendment”) to the Credit Agreement....
...If you are still tempted by spherical photography, I do recommend the Ricoh Theta V....
...Facebook v YouTube: contrasting approaches The music business has been intermittently at odds with technology platforms for decades, since digital piracy ravaged the sector’s traditional business model....
Media company backs move to end criminal liability immunity
...“The real concern for most companies contemplating an IPO isn’t the challenge of going public, it is the obligations and opportunities that come with being public,” said Lise Buyer, a partner at Class V...
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...Silicon Valley, on San Francisco's peninsula, is often used as the catch-all phrase representing US West Coast tech, even though Amazon and Microsoft are up in Washington state and its biggest companies...
.... ————————————————– News: Amazon agrees to buy Whole Foods for $13.7bn Lex: Grain of truth Video Lex on Whole Foods takeover FT Alphaville: Whole Foods v the activists Markets: Investors gobble up...
...Bankside Design District South Bank The first UK exhibition of San Francisco’s Letterform Archive (see below) will include works by Eric Gill, Piet Zwart, Emigre, Inc and many others....
...Job Moves Perella Weinberg has hired Richard Sherlund as a partner focusing on technology companies based out of its San Francisco office....
...Uber, the San Francisco based transportation company, scored a major legal victory on Wednesday when a court in its hometown ruled that Uber drivers could not pursue a class action challenge against the...
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