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...shifts within Berkshire as Buffett leans on a new generation Charlie Munger’s fingerprints are all over Berkshire Hathaway, from some of its most consequential deals — including the purchases of See’s Candies...
...THG has previously been subject to takeover interest from a range of investors, including property tycoon Nick Candy and THG non-executive director Iain McDonald, seeking to take advantage of a share price...
...She has this clothing brand called Otto....
...Tech tools — Candy’s smart laundry Italian appliance maker Candy introduced a smart Wi-Fi washing machine today as part of its new WashPass subscription service....
...He left in 2016 to start a rival self-driving company called Otto, which Uber swiftly acquired for almost $700m....
...Shortly after he left the company in 2016, he co-founded Otto, an autonomous trucking company later acquired by Uber for a reported $680m....
...Google said he used the information to advance technology at Otto and subsequently Uber....
...Mr Levandowski was one of the founders of Google's Waymo, but left to co-found Otto, an autonomous trucking company that was later acquired by Uber. Months afterwards....
...Uber then bought Otto and Waymo cried foul. Mr Levandowski was forced from Uber during the Waymo trial....
...Mr Levandowski left Waymo in January 2016 to co-found Otto, an autonomous trucking company later acquired by Uber....
...In early 2016, he again followed Mr Levandowski to join Otto, a self-driving trucks start-up swallowed up by Uber for a reported $680m. Mr Miller has built a reputation for prioritising safety....
...Yet when Apple marked the 10-year anniversary of the iPhone app store just a few weeks later, its press release celebrated the popularity of Angry Birds, Candy Crush Saga and Instagram without acknowledging...
...In March, the company raised £4m through a share placing and subscription, and a further £4.5m a month later from investments from Nick Candy, the luxury property developer, and Edge Investments the creative...
...And if anyone can keep players hooked on Candy, the sequel king Kotick can....
...Smucker (jam, $16bn), Snyder’s-Lance (pretzels and chips, $2.6bn) and Tootsie Roll (candy, $1.8bn)....
...But it’s also becoming something more fantastical and precise: candy-coloured fake fur, as with fledgling London label Shrimps, nostalgic ripped denim à la Marques’Almeida or, as with Être Cécile, playful...
...Mascots dressed as characters from the mobile video game “Candy Crush Saga” pose outside the New York Stock Exchange ahead of the IPO of Mobile game maker King Digital Entertainment Plc....
...small institutional investors filed a class-action suit against the News Corp board, claiming that the company was “paying for nepotism” and alleging that Mr Murdoch treated News Corp “like a wholly owned candy...
...Mr Lavin eventually bought out Mr Otto and his two sons and became full owner and chief executive. When McDonald’s entered China in the 1990s, OSI came along....
...King Digital, maker of the Candy Crush Saga game, was itself crushed when it listed on Wednesday and fell more that 15 per cent....
...“You can play Candy Crush up to the end without spending a penny, but there are mechanisms in there that nudge you to spend.”...
...“King’s valuation is predicated on the continued success both of Candy Crush Saga and of a successor to Candy Crush Saga . . . I am nervous valuing it on the basis of striking gold again.”...
...Candy Crush is deceptively simple, inviting players to form rows of three jellied sweets....
...It can also use its beachhead in Candy Crush to promote new titles....
...But lapsed gamers such as myself might want to do more than slide candy or fling birds around, for longer than those games’ usual five-minute sessions....
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