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...And that wasn’t the only mini-drama....
...Doing nothing, however, isn’t an option....
...I finished a great novel* and started Right Kind of Wrong, Amy Edmondson’s new book (she’s the Harvard Business School prof behind the concept of psychological safety)....
...When PCs weren’t available 42 years ago, we built our own hardware. When the “cloud” didn’t exist, we created our own....
...But the Indian tycoon and his empire are still doing damage control....
...“It won’t be rational. But that is how it is going to unfold.”...
...Microsoft’s second weapon is a familiar one: its ubiquity on PCs. The battle this week has been cast as a rerun of the long-running — and one-sided — Google vs Bing rivalry....
...TB: Some of your competitors in the game engine business have decided that going to war with Apple is a great business strategy. At the moment, Unity has not followed Epic Games into battle....
...PC: Do you think with your cash and obviously your market cap at the moment, you would ever consider buying another carmaker whether an established OEM or a new business?...
...The geopolitical and business implications of the new US strategy are starting to become apparent....
...Particular alarm bells, he notes, were sounded by the company’s announcement at the start of January that it was creating a new subsidiary — Sony Mobility — to explore entering the electric vehicle market...
...Sometimes suppliers have chips on hand, but they just can’t give them to us first,” said Miller Chang, president of the embedded IoT business at Advantech, the world’s biggest industrial computer maker and...
...AT&T’s $80bn acquisition of Warner left the company saddled in debt, restricting its ability to invest in its core business: telecoms. Anna Nicolaou 3....
...countries will reach levels the world hasn’t seen since the second world war....
...David Constable will step down as a non-executive director of Rio Tinto at the end of this year to pursue his new role as chief executive of Fluor Corporation....
...Mr Yoshida’s quieter approach and willingness to rethink past expansionism has something in common with a new generation of technology leaders, such as Sundar Pichai at Google and Satya Nadella at Microsoft...
...Besides saving customers the cost of buying a new console or high-end PC, backers of cloud services such as Stadia say they will bring new gaming experiences that cannot be matched by current hardware....
...The $26bn in new business likely to be added this year is a stunning demonstration of the enduring power of Google’s core business....
...Third is the confusion over Sidewalk Labs business model....
...A case study co-authored by Henderson describes the PC division as “smothered by support from the parent company”. Eventually, the IBM PC business was sold off to a Chinese company, Lenovo....
...“The stock went to $30 on the hope behind the iPhone but there was never any revenue follow-through on the mobility side,” says Brent Thill, equities analyst at UBS....
...The new action could force Google to change its business model for Android, one of its core products, and pay billions of euros in fines....
...FELIX EHRATGroup general counsel Novartis The healthcare industry is undergoing a period of transformation, and Felix Ehrat and his legal team have led Novartis into new sectors and new ways of doing business...
...The majority of AT&T’s revenues used to come from selling wireless phone plans, but under the new model this “mobility” segment will account for just a quarter of sales....
...Its website gives as contact details a London residential address where 50 companies are registered, many with Greek directors. Mezza’ directors aren’t Greek. One is Federal Infosystems llc....
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