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...The Reuters story about bots cited is from May 2 and refers to Twitter’s 10-K SEC filing of the same date....
...One rigorous study found that the share of profits apportioned to people and R&D dropped from 50 per cent in the 1980s to 9 per cent in the 2000s. I loved my Stanford and McKinsey years....
...As anchor tenants such as Sears and Toys R Us have started to disappear, they’ve become more concerned about the developing crisis in US retail and they’re walking away in droves....
...The regulator initiated enforcement action against some Walgreens outlets and against rival Circle K Stores, warning the retailers that it would vigorously enforce the law....
...Konstantinos Venetis, senior economist at TS Lombard: Unlikely....
...The UK’s AstraZeneca has announced a shake-up of its research and development and commercial operations, including by naming José Baselga to run its oncology R&D unit....
...“Our Brand Blueprint strategy is successfully driving the business despite a challenging economic environment in the U.K. and Brazil, as well as a short-term retailer disruption,” said Brian Goldner, Hasbro...
...have written code / From Phil Hughes, Menlo Park, CA, US Boris has the chance to redeem himself in 2018 / From Peter J Soulsby, London, UK Please read Shakespeare (trust one who knows) / From Prof B C K...
...The Orlando Sentinel said he moved to Florida from Puerto Rico and had previously worked for Toys R Us. Luis S....
...In April, Petrobras announced its much delayed 2014 audited results, which included a one-off hit of almost R$51bn ($16bn)....
...Total revenues for US card companies came to $161.7bn in 2014, up about 11 per cent from a year earlier, according to R K Hammer, a consultancy....
...The sector came under pressure in early February after Gilead warned it would cut the price of its $1,000-a-day hepatitis C pill as insurers and pharmacy benefit managers angled for greater discounts....
...“The nervous system is a fundamental control system in biology,” says Kristoffer Famm, GSK’s head of bioelectronics R&D....
...US officials are calling on five of the biggest US retailers to drop tobacco products from their pharmacies, following the decision by CVS Caremark to stub out cigarette sales this year....
...B: At last we understand one another. * as imagined by Lombard....
...Corporate governance scandals at foreign miners such as Eurasian Natural Resources Corp and Bumi highlighted the weakness of the system....
....* Lombard got the Royal Mail price wrong too, but with the expenditure of far less effort than the government. jonathan.guthrie@ft.com...
...Suffering from a softer-than-expected recovery, it did well to hold R&D spending at 7.3 per cent of overall revenues. But those revenues themselves were lower....
...As well as expanding its factories, Samsung Electronics plans to establish an R&D centre in Vietnam. The Korean government is also trying to help Vietnam to climb the ladder....
...The candidates bidding separately for a stake of around 20% in Versace include Blackstone, U.K....
...But the setback signals that AstraZeneca remains heavily exposed to R&D risks as a pure play drug developer, even as rivals diversify....
...However, a report in Valor Econômico said CVS paid R$670m for an 80 per cent stake in the business....
...“Healthcare costs are spiralling out of control,” says Mr Utterman, at Lombard Odier....
...But how to recover the capital invested in so much R&D?...
...Most of all for partners at KKR, the big US-based private equity firm that owns a large chunk of the European pharmacies and drugs wholesaling group....
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