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...Productivity-hype bubbles are usually separated by at least 25 years and usually form at the end of a secular bull market, when aggregate profits are coming under pressure, say Garthwaite et al....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...Smart reads #Hardcore Under Elon Musk, Twitter product management director Esther Crawford has emerged as a rare leader from the old guard to win over its new owner....
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...The profound thrill I felt when I knew I’d discovered something really new and fundamental hooked me for life, and I haven’t looked back.”...
...Fiona Bae, author of upcoming book Make Break Remix: The Rise of K-Style, describes K-style as a “complex mix and contrast of the old and the new, western and eastern, high- and low-brow.”...
...So after selling their music equipment in 2017, they finally opened their first café, followed more recently by a speciality roaster in an old workshop in Buenos Aires’s Chacarita district....
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...Practising a new piece for 10 hours a day is a slog, she explains; “you repeat, repeat, repeat”....
...sold a majority stake in her firm to Coty Inc for $600m in November, just in case anyone thought selling lipstick to teens on Instagram was a sideline....
...Unlike Sondland et al, they did not buy their positions. Nor will most of them be able to monetise their experience when they leave government....
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF, even joined the company’s board....
...The New York Stock Exchange marked the occasion by accidentally flying the red and white flag of Switzerland outside its building even though the music streaming service has its headquarters in Sweden....
...(Its new frontman, Jon Gray, is pictured below) Carlyle, the US buyout group, just raised North America’s largest ever fund at $18.5bn, breaking through its original $15bn target....
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...Music in the age of the algorithm Whatever happened to the long tail?asks Ludovic Hunter-Tilney. In music, the big stars still dominate....
...As I looked around the room at Allen, Andy et al, I thought about how they fought for the cultural and political freedoms that we enjoy today....
...“They are archaic and old fashioned,” he says, adding that most typical deal structures could be classed as “indentured labour”....
...The matches will be streamed over the web via a new channel called DAZN....
...YouTube bum note for majors The music industry has opened a new front in its dispute with YouTube, as the three largest labels allege that the Google-owned video site’s filtering technology fails to identify...
...Think of Stanley Kubrick ending The Shining with a close-up of an old photograph that on TV would simply make you squint. Cinema elevates....
...Music streaming has passed digital downloads At least in revenues for Warner Music Group....
...Hike Direct, a service added to the group’s main app in October, uses WiFi Direct to allow users meeting one another to swap files such as music and video at high speeds without having to be online....
...SoundCloud licensing deal SoundCloud has struck a licensing deal with Universal Music Group, a critical agreement that will make it easier for the Berlin-based streaming service to make money from its 175m...
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