Hints and tips:
...From a product perspective and a business perspective, all these companies are clamouring to get their hands on more and more data to do individualised price discrimination, or as intelligence when building...
...“I do sort of have a grander vision for what I thought X.com or X Corporation could have been back in the day . . ....
...For a business to charge credit cards, it needs a merchant account from a sponsor in the Visa and Mastercard network....
...If you think about it, it’s a good combination: as the name suggests, IFF specialises in flavour and fragrances used in food while DuPont’s N&B business is all about textures....
...I keep hearing about millennials who reject corporations, it [Tesla] has brand appeal for people who love rejecting corporations.” Making the cars has turned out to be a harder proposition....
...controls Fox and News Corporation (News Corp), increasing its control over Sky....
...That group could now dwindle to four as falling crop prices and a decline in spending by farmers force a fresh wave of mergers and acquisitions....
...Almost three decades as a business hack do funny things to a person’s outlook. jonathan.guthrie@ft.com...
...and give US corporations the right to challenge European laws as trade barriers....
...In a fresh crisis, Morgan Stanley could still be seen as more vulnerable than Goldman despite a new source of strength: a partnership with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, the Japanese bank that is Morgan...
...Ms Williams’ predicament illustrates the complex factors holding back business as normal in places worst hit by the October storm....
...It’s incorporated as a business and is funded by sponsors, advertising and merchandise....
...“Good design,” as IBM chief executive Thomas Watson Jr once said, “is good business.” Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture critic...
...Not going to pot(ash) A lucky escape for the shareholders in BHP Billiton. Fresh from the collapse of its bid for Rio Tinto, it lobbed in a $40bn bid for Potash Corporation....
...The nice thing about doing this so many times is we fail not infrequently, and we may fail with this. This is as difficult as anything I’ve ever done.” Additional reporting by Vinjeru Mkandawire...
...by giant, uncaring corporations and shocking consumerism....
...He cultivated a lean team of fresh graduates, all internet-savvy and hungry – possibly literally....
...Mr Wilson is regarded as having a brilliant business mind, but he is also genuinely charming and personable....
...“Multinational corporations have an unprecedented amount of idle cash, debt financing is available at historically low rates, equity valuations remain cheap and cost-cutting has made most corporations lean...
...However, he also has a lot to say more broadly about economics and business....
...He is tall and lean, with a big, friendly, leonine face that he thrusts close to me as I sit down....
...to enter the OTC clearing business soon....
...It really needs to demonstrate it is doing everything as transparently as possible.”...
...They wanted a heavyweight figurehead, backed by a strong diplomatic corps, so that the EU, an economic superpower expanded to 27 nations, could speak with a coherent and unified voice....
...I welcome a fresh approach to the market structure in the futures markets, one that supports competition. Competition is - and needs to remain - the cornerstone of American business....
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