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...Rivals AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Russia’s Sputnik V and new entrants such as Novavax make up the remainder of the market, which is forecast to double in value to $124bn next year....
...The AU will pay $6.75 a dose for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and $10 for Johnson & Johnson’s, a single-dose product....
...After such strong reads from the first two releases (three if we count Russia’s Sputnik V), the disappointing AZN figures were perhaps bound to prompt downward pressure on the company’s shares....
...Some Iranian doctors say the BioNTech/Pfizer was, in any case, beyond Iran’s budget, and would have been difficult to store and transport because of the need for cold chain storage....
...In August, Russia became the first country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine — named Sputnik V — for civilian use, but western experts cast doubt on its efficacy and safety....
...John Prince, chief executive at Optum RX, said manufacturers continue to raise list prices because of a “lack of meaningful competition”....
...Xerox director Chuck Prince (yes, that Chuck Prince) recently noted the challenge of doing a deal without Fuji. Crucially, Tuesday night’s settlement with Deason and Icahn does not include Fuji....
...A golf course nestles up against the Red Sea coastline and international companies including Pfizer and Mars have opened factories in the city....
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...Victoria & Albert Museum Cromwell Road The V&A returns as the LDF’s official hub and host of the Global Design Forums — a series of talks, including Merel Bekking on “Brain Manufacturing”, which explores...
...A few months before he died, Prince compared record contracts to “slavery” and advised young artists against signing them....
...They include Sony’s Smart Tennis Sensor (£170), a red, bottle cap-sized device that snaps on the grip end of compatible rackets from Wilson, Head, Prince and Yonex....
.... …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Ben Hall, world news editor, picks: • Isis Inc: how oil fuels jihadi terrorists by Erika Solomon, Guy Chazan and Sam Jones• Why China’s ‘migrant miracle’ is...
...Mogul: Sounds like some kinda jacket Prince Charles would wear for moose shooting. They got moose in London? Yes Man: Sure thing, boss. Mogul: We’ll re-name him Eddie McGurk....
...Yet, here they are, senior representatives from Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and many of the world’s other big drugmakers, sipping champagne in Prince Charles’s Clarence House residence in London....
...The possibility of a Pfizer/AstraZeneca deal still has the politicians talking (the chief executives of both were hauled before the UK parliament this week)....
...(Bloomberg) “Pfizer Inc, the Indian unit of U.S. drug maker Pfizer Inc, is to take over local affiliate Wyeth Ltd, they said on Saturday after their boards approved the deal....
...Grand Theft Auto V cost £170m to produce, according to its Scottish developer Rockstar North, about the same as the films Avatar and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince....
...The line up is: Portugal v Sweden, France v Ukraine, Greece v Romania and Iceland v Croatia PlayStation 4 launches Sony launches its PlayStation 4 in the US....
...He describes turning up to the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 wearing “a V-neck tennis sweater in the traditional white, maroon and black, over white pants”....
...In the UK he was awarded the Prince Philip prize for design in 2010. Moggridge is survived by Karin and their sons, Alex and Erik....
...See, for example, a scene in The Newsroom when Daniels’ character is about to go on-air, having changed from his off-screen working uniform of no tie, jeans, button-down and V-neck sweater into a pinstripe...
...beyondbrics India v China: a new race in biopharmaceuticals, beyondbrics...
...Even so, it’s a lot of Hindemith to swallow at one go and, with the exception of Trauermusik, written for a 1936 BBC broadcast after the death of King George V, the music does not capitalise sufficiently...
...Pfizer, the largest US drugmaker by market value, inched down 0.7 per cent to $14.54 as the stock being removed from the “conviction buy” list at Goldman Sachs....
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