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...PM: What does it do, to round up [time stamps]? DS: Customers — meaning [web] publishers — would try to audit their auctions to make sure that their ad space is being sold to the highest bidder....
...Pozhidaev declines to confirm where the grain was sold, beyond saying it was in Turkey. He says: “In the end, I sold the cargo....
...The question now is, who is ready to sell: Sony Pictures Entertainment has long been viewed as a target, but its parent company in Japan has resisted it....
...Edward sold his shares in 1989, retired and took up philanthropy. Peter stayed on to orchestrate the deal that would create Brookfield....
...sand on a beach next to her avatar, who was dressed in a black V-neck and a very short skirt....
...(v) Restructuring continues. Of course it does. But what about that Tesla, eh?...
...By the time DLJ was sold to Credit Suisse in 2000, it was valued at $11.5bn. In 1984, the New York Times dubbed Jenrette the “last gentleman on Wall Street”....
...The paperwork, filed on Wednesday, provides the clearest picture yet of Spotify’s business model....
...Last June, Apple hired Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg from Sony Pictures Television and is expanding its content team in Los Angeles’ Culver City, leasing a new 128,000 sq-ft office building earlier this...
...A deal frenzy has gripped the media sector with Comcast, Verizon and Sony Pictures joining Walt Disney as potential bidders for part of the empire that media mogul Rupert Murdoch is considering breaking...
...Third Point also sold its shares in Salesforce, up 29 per cent so far this year, and chipmaker Qualcomm, which is down 20 per cent. This article has been amended to correct the name of Mr Loeb’s fund....
...“The real concern for most companies contemplating an IPO isn’t the challenge of going public, it is the obligations and opportunities that come with being public,” said Lise Buyer, a partner at Class V...
...Maybe in a crazy bidding war it gets to $5m. The fact that it sold this year for $12m is insane.”...
...Yet the picture has been the opposite for China’s dealings in Brazil....
...Its new Class V shares will represent some 65 per cent of its stake in VMware — though holders will have no direct rights in VMware, and Dell will have the right to switch the underlying assets and businesses...
...The original producer of This is Spinal Tap was the long-forgotten Embassy Pictures. Over time, Embassy’s catalogue of films was resold again and again until it reached Vivendi....
...The experience of iflix bears that out, with 85 per cent of its content downloaded over a fixed internet connection but 55 per cent of it watched on a mobile device....
...Those factories have been funded partly by local governments selling property to developers (who then on-sold it to property speculators for a profit while house prices were rising), and partly by SOE borrowing...
...China is already the second-largest movie market after the US by value of tickets sold, and it is expected to become the largest by 2020....
...Jonathan Klein is stepping down as chief executive of Getty Images, the picture and image licensing group, 20 years to the day after he founded the company with Mark Getty....
...With the buyer apparently willing to pay $100m more, the legal case that the board sold the company too cheaply is bolstered....
...They will draw information from many devices to assemble a comprehensive, deeply personal picture of their users’ lives....
...Nomura Holdings has sold back a stake in Fortress Investment Group for about $500m less than it paid eight years ago, as it seeks to cleanse its balance sheet of risky assets that it accumulated in the run-up...
...In 2007 it was sold for about $15m. By Silicon Valley standards, that’s almost a failure, but it left Kalanick with enough money to invest in other start-ups, including Uber....
...“My boyfriend won’t even speak to me about it, but I’m trying to explain the bigger picture to him,” she says....
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