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...It’s one of those blue-sky days when the English countryside is not so much green and pleasant as indecently gorgeous....
...Soak in views of the Elizabethan manor house Glynde Place, as well as panoramas of the South Downs National Park, Ouse Valley and Lewes....
...The river, rising in Ashe near Basingstoke and flowing through a lattice of streams to Southampton water, is heartbreakingly beautiful and pleasant....
...Two miles east, the apartments in Stockholm Manor were paid for using a form of tax credit first introduced during president Ronald Reagan’s years that has since become the federal government’s main way...
...Hedge funds muscle into ValleyHedge funds are elbowing their way into Silicon Valley at an unprecedented rate with a record-smashing $153bn worth of investments in private companies in the first six months...
...But the allure of Silicon Valley has proven harder to shake than they thought....
...Sunak was “by far and away the youngest and the most junior guy” present but “took it very seriously in a very pleasant way — he was showing us what to do”....
...Construction is just getting under way on the 1,000 acre advanced manufacturing facility, which the Taiwanese company hopes will one day anchor a Silicon Valley-style high technology centre in the heart...
...Smaller funds Manor Road Capital and Cat Rock Capital have also upped their stakes....
...Silicon Valley’s behemoths are also seeking to stave off maturity by expanding into such growth areas as cloud computing and artificial intelligence....
...The group, worth an estimated €3.2bn, belongs to the stable of Rocket Internet, the German new technology group snippily accused in Silicon Valley of copying its ideas....
...Entering a Georgian manor in the green and pleasant Berkshire Downs in southern England, the cricket aficionado will spot a straw hat trimmed in the red and gold or “egg and bacon” livery of Marylebone Cricket...
...Fresh Meat, Mount Pleasant and other shows were filmed there but its four studios were overwhelmed. So Space was born, with 5,110 sq m of studio....
...Despite living just a few miles from Silicon Valley, Birch at first stayed on the sidelines of the tech community. “We never met anyone from Silicon Valley,” he says. “It was just me and my books.”...
...In 2006 Sophia Amoruso was a down-on-her-luck young photographer in Pleasant Hill, California, taking stock of her life in her step-aunt’s pool house....
...Gardeners do not inhabit Silicon roundabouts or valleys so much as isolated valleys and municipal parks and gardens....
...Glen Affric, a Victorian manor on the shores of Loch Affric, was a private home of the Matthews family, the owners of Eden Rock, but after five years of restoration is now being offered to paying guests....
...And Diego Della Valle’s Milan office is always a pleasant environment to enjoy a cup of coffee and a pastry or two....
...A world in which people can be routinely and anonymously targeted by unseen enemies is not pleasant to contemplate....
...It is a pleasant experience – viewing individual histories of pure conversations with just people you know....
...This château would be perfect for anyone with lord of the manor aspirations or an interest in rearing rare breed sheep and other livestock....
...This saw a $5bn windfall for a group of investors, led by Silicon Valley investment firm Silver Lake, who bought the company 18 months previously....
...Instead, it is in danger of becoming a rerun of one of the US tech industry’s least pleasant interludes: the memory chip war of a quarter of a century ago. What has gone wrong?...
...Like other successful Welsh business people – such as Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital, the Silicon Valley investor – Sir Terry made his money outside the country....
...That is, I think, one reason why it has upset many traditionalists in Silicon Valley, who see it as a counter-revolutionary, not a revolutionary, machine....
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