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...Glass Lewis said the “optics” surrounding the historical relationship between deSouza and Thompson should have contributed to the selection of a comparably qualified alternative candidate unfettered by personal...
...Among the beneficiaries are companies such as Oyster, a human resources platform, which helps companies manage remote workforces — including its own....
...The optics are not great.” By raising demand for PRNT’s investee companies, the cross-holding will have played a part in the 5.7 per cent jump in PRNT’s share price since ARKX’s launch....
...Christine Silberhorn, an expert in quantum optics at Paderborn University in Germany, called the Chinese team’s work a “milestone experiment”....
...(FT) News round-up Germany’s blue-chip Dax to expand in wake of Wirecard debacle (FT) Stanhope merges with FWM to create $24.2bn wealth manager (FT) Google plans fiber-optic network to connect via Saudi...
...It is also working with multiple partners, including China Mobile International and Vodafone, to build submarine fibre-optic cables that will connect Europe, the Middle East and Africa....
...(Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson) Grit in the oyster CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project, on Wednesday published its list of companies that are leading on environmental transparency....
...“Inevitably, anyone who is thinking about doing a partnership with Google, if they weren’t thinking about the optics before this, then they were probably asleep....
....* Mr Emanuel quit his talent agent job at ICM Partners after reading Life After Television, a book in which the utopian thinker George Gilder predicted that fibre optics and “telecommuters” would galvanise...
...It also has its own communications “backbone” — more than 400,000 miles of fibre-optic cable that link its data centres around the world....
...That mooted new physical link, which would carry all internet content, could come via a fibre-optic cable laid between Cuba and Google stations around Miami, or through an already-extant cable such as Arcos...
...Also, rather than being relying on the public internet “backbone”, the company said it would use thousands of miles of its own fibre-optic cable to carry its traffic as far as a gamer’s ISP, improving quality...
...(Patrick Temple-West) Grit in the oyster: Many companies and investors say they try to “do well by doing good”. As a reminder that many still fall short, here’s a little grit in the ESG oyster....
...“The optics are not good here,” said Scott Amey, general counsel at the Project On Government Oversight....
...The optics of the revised lock-up have been terrible for Pincus and Hoffman. Yet their defense is worth examining. In the December 2011 IPO, Zynga sold just 100m shares at $10....
...According to Tobias Levkovich, chief US equity strategist at Citi Research and another Black Monday veteran: “There isn’t this enthused bunch of people who feel the world is their oyster,” he says....
...Bonhams sold a 1977 white gold Oyster Perpetual Day-Date made for the sultanate of Oman, featuring the nation’s emblem — a khanjar dagger on crossed swords — on the dial and on the case back, for £32,500...
...Acacia Communications, a Massachusetts-based company that makes components for fibre optic networks, and SecureWorks, the cybersecurity arm of Dell, also have listed in 2016....
...That, it says, could be achieved by what it calls a “magic shoe box” — forcing the trading data to take a detour through 38 miles of coiled-up fibre optic cable to produce a 350-microsecond delay....
...To escape this trap, what IEX offers is a speed bump — consisting of a separate connection point and 38 miles of coiled fibre optic cable — which creates a delay of around 350 microseconds....
...“We are from sport and we will always look through that optic of people who have been involved in sport: we are competitive and want to win,” he said....
...Claire Manson has also moved from Franklin Templeton to run the Oyster European mid and small-cap fund for SYZ, replacing William Sharp....
...Dozens of ebook subscription services already exist, such as Scribd and Oyster, but most remain niche propositions and the biggest publishers have been reluctant to sign up....
...ThreatStream: ThreatStream’s Optic platform aims to aggregate threat intelligence so organisations can connect the dots and take action more quickly....
...He duly orders a half-dozen oysters to share and a “French dip” steak sandwich with fries. I opt for “acorn-fed” pork belly “from the ranch”....
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