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...The stock in the eye of the storm rallied 72 per cent on Friday morning, rebounding from its first fall in six days after brokerages loosened trading restrictions....
...SoftBank founder predicts WeWork V for Victory Masayoshi Son admitted today he had turned a “blind eye” to governance lapses at WeWork but promised a “sharp V-shaped recovery” for the shared offices provider...
...For a company with no product to sell, Zion is unusual in that it records substantial marketing expenses. Selling securities costs money, after all, with or without an investment bank....
...(Quartz) Defective guns Only one product is outside of the US government’s reach when it comes to defects and recalls: firearms....
...The business was originally in leasing but later became an internet service provider and software business, rebranding as M Womeninfoline.com Ltd and then Women Networks Ltd, which is still listed in India...
...Forwarded US drops cyberbombs on Isis The United States has opened a new line of combat against the Islamic State, directing the military’s six-year-old Cyber Command for the first time to mount computer-network...
...ENTHUSIASM From Network Briefing (September 16, 1999): Internet reward-point “bank” Beenz.com Inc yesterday revealed it has raised $20m in private cash in its third round of venture capital financing....
...in first-half pre-tax profits....
...The first tranche was sold last month to Deutsche Bank and Barclays. It also hopes to take its aircraft leasing unit public....
...Apple’s first computer mouse and the Palm V handheld computer were among the breakthrough products claimed by Ideo. Its work foreshadowed the world of smartphones and social networks....
...Visa Inc is bringing cashless banking to Rwanda as it begins, a little belatedly, to target Africa’s largely unbanked emerging markets....
...With growth in gross domestic product in emerging Asia now forecast by the Asian Development Bank to reach 7.9 per cent this year, airlines are rushing to add enough capacity to meet predicted demand....
...IBM plans to open a network of analytics solution centres around the world, with the first five about to open in Beijing, Tokyo, London, Washington DC and New York....
...But he is thought to covet Merrill’s blue-chip brokerage network and might be more comfortable buying an investment bank than building one himself....
...Some banks responded by investing, others by leasing server time elsewhere. Unlike humans, computers do not, in theory, make mistakes....
...Jajah carries the calls over the internet for the bulk of the distance, leasing fibre at cheap rates from companies such as Level 3 and Global Crossing....
...First, via a project to produce fruit and vegetables for the export market in a joint venture with Rothschild, the British investment bank, called FieldFresh Foods....
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