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...Sam Smith, a privacy activist at Med Confidential, says the question is whether consumers are happy with a big company like Google, Facebook or Amazon doing everything....
...For Mr Qian, Club Med is only part of the equation. He is building an “ecosystem” of leisure services called Fosun Holiday, or Foliday....
...The search service? Or just the people doing the searches? And what if it wasn’t? How easy would it be to operate in these grey areas and blame the algorithm if anyone complains?...
...The debate on how Britain's National Health Service should be financed shows no sign of letting up....
...Verily has made a string of bets on healthcare in recent years, although investing in drugmakers is something of a departure for a group that has focused on “med-tech” products, including a vibrating spoon...
...“We can . . . get [services] to market much faster if we own it.”...
...Before that, the group was best known for the acquisitions of Club Med, the French holiday operator, a stake in Cirque du Soleil and another in Thomas Cook, the UK holiday group....
...the increased availability of on-demand taxi services....
...As a service provider to local and foreign companies alike, WuXi AppTec is well placed to assess progress....
...Another in that trend was Fosun’s long battle to acquire Club Med, which it won earlier this year for $1.1bn....
...Look at the biggest deals and China Inc appears to view Europe as simply a vast source of energy, and the expertise that goes with it....
...nestle.com/investors Pet meds More accessible to investors is the animal pharmaceutical market, estimated to be worth $23bn in 2013 by consultancy Vetnosis....
...(WaPo) In the news China’s Hunger Games Dalian Wanda seeks a controlling stake in Lions Gate Entertainment, maker of Mad Men and The Hunger Games, while Fosun ups its bid for Club Med....
...“The amount of weight I can push or pull is multiples of my own strength,” boasts Mr Greenberg, who is now chairman and CEO of CV Star & Co, a financial services firm....
...He also deserves credit for tapping into the UK health service’s under-used (but also poorly conceived) data systems....
...Demand for exporters’ goods and services might be falling, but the euro's weakness has cut costs for Mr Gould because Europe “is becoming a less expensive place to buy services or translators”....
...It has taken a loss of $500m in diagnostic imaging business I-MED, in which it originally invested $720m....
...It either goes direct to charity or funds Sarah’s and Mr Brown’s staff for continuing public service.”...
...He declined to name names, but pointed to recent decisions by Fosun to build up strategic stakes in the European luxury brands Folli Follie and Club Med, and joint ventures with overseas pharmaceutical companies...
...“The Club Med deal is a good example of what this fund can do – investing in global brands that can do better with Fosun’s help by expanding in China,” he said....
...MED-V is a software tool that enables you to keep using old applications designed for Windows XP even when the PCs are running the latest Windows 7....
...– Renewed stability in Eurozone debt and money markets – including successful bond auctions amongst the Club Med members. – Clarity with respect to European bank vulnerability....
...After all, Portugal was tipped as the next Greece long before its sovereign ratings were cut two notches to A- by S&P this week, sparking fears of another Club Med collapse....
...In the late 1980s and 1990s, as steel manufacturing jobs declined, the healthcare and services sectors started to fill the gaps....
...In August, he announced plans to create more than 800 jobs at a new customer service centre in Glasgow....
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