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...Sponsors can’t get enough of the teams, from Google to Oracle....
...Vanessa Sea has joined Mudrick Capital Management as head of consultant relations and North America distribution, based in New York....
...That kicked off a race between some of America’s largest companies and tech investors to buy the video app and save it from being banned altogether....
...Richard Waters writes that it no longer seems so far-fetched to think of Tan as the most serious consolidator in the software industry since Oracle’s Larry Ellison almost 20 years ago....
...The largest and most intellectual-property-rich 10 per cent of companies — Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Alphabet — control 80 per cent of this hoard....
..., highlighting how the power of America’s tech giants is creating tensions with other big businesses as well as policymakers and consumer groups....
...It competes with industry behemoths, such as IBM, Microsoft and Oracle....
...According to a McKinsey Global Institute report released in June, cities in Europe, North America, China and East Asia have the most developed technology bases, while those in Latin America, Africa and India...
...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...Oracle founder Larry Ellison will join Apple, Qualcomm and Foxconn in backing SoftBank’s record-setting technology fund, allowing the Japanese telecoms group to hit its $100bn goal weeks ahead of schedule...
...Walmart acquired discount stores Wertkauf and Interspar in 1997 but after nine years it conceded defeat, sold 85 stores to Metro AG and incurred a loss of $1bn....
...However, all of this overseas business activity is occurring against a backdrop of a Chinese domestic economy that is facing myriad challenges with a slower GDP growth forecast of 6.5 per cent, reduced domestic...
...“Despite myriad new laws and regulations, global banks have yet to fully restore their credibility.”...
...(Buzzfeed) FT FYI France hits Orange with €350m antitrust fine Strong dollar hits Oracle sales and profits Entertainment One joins forces with Spielberg for new film group Hong Kong’s IWM hits back...
...Bank of America (Finance) 77. Barclays (Finance) 78. Monster Beverage (Consumer Goods) 79. Nvidia (Technology) 80. Ford (Automotive) 81. Total (Oil & Gas) 82....
...This meant trials took place among a relatively small and well-defined group of patients....
...In Mr Nadella’s telling, the move sees Microsoft adopt gold-plated privacy standards, while showing a path forward for other US cloud companies including Google, Oracle and Amazon....
...(Guardian) Dynasty v shareholders Some executives at Samsung are trying to ensure a third generation of family control at South Korea’s biggest business group....
...First-quarter results will also start to trickle out, with figures due from FedEx, Nike, Oracle, Lennar and General Mills....
...Beenz said the funding included $39.5 million from investors such as Gruppo l’Espresso, the Italian media group, ING Barings and venture capitalists....
...The debt priced at a similar level to US groups such as Cisco and Oracle, as opposed to Chinese tech groups like Baidu and Tencent, as Alibaba shrugged off the difficulties some China-based companies have...
...The group has spoken to O2 and Vodafone in the UK, according to three people familiar with the discussions....
...(Financial Times) Alibaba Group, the Chinese ecommerce group, continued a string of deal making designed to strengthen its appeal ahead of a widely anticipated initial public offering this year, with a...
...Corbat earned $14.1 million, in line with Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, but behind his peers at Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Chase.”...
...“Most companies should have fallback positions in terms of their patent claims,” said Lisa Haile, co-chair of DLA Piper’s global life sciences group....
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