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...CD&R and BC Partners declined to comment....
...CD&R bought MFG for £500mn nearly a decade ago....
...It seeks to prove lack of competition in markets in which Apple faces serious rivals and in which users are able to switch to different products and services....
...It’s about how do we look at this together and not duplicate building skills where we don’t have to.”...
...Spending on R&D reached nearly 8 per cent of revenue last year, up from just over 2 per cent a decade ago....
...Unlike Microsoft and Alphabet it has not rolled out new AI-enhanced services to customers this year....
...CD&R declined to comment....
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...Bataller’s knowledge is based on 15 years’ operating the brand’s sister wellness centre in Alicante, where roughly 55 per cent of guests are repeat visitors, and R&R is a vastly evolved prospect....
...Stringer — perhaps given his A&R background — has a reputation for being on the side of the artist....
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...The reason for the mass departures was slowly sinking soil, which triggered cracks in buildings and craters in roads....
...Naver has been experimenting with integrating service robots into office life for more than a year in the 36-storey building on the southern outskirts of Seoul....
...After getting into the chip production business, the company is now moving upstream, building a massive semiconductor equipment R&D centre in western Shanghai, Nikkei Asia’s Cheng Ting-Fang writes....
.../ From E R Yescombe, YCL Consulting, London N10, UK...
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...It is hard to create a “Minsky moment” when building speculative leverage belongs to the central bank....
...But Tesla’s ambitions for autonomous driving powered by homegrown artificial intelligence processing could foster a large services unit. R&D spend has doubled since 2020, reaching $3bn in 2022....
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...They spend a lot of money on R&D. They are among the largest patent holders. There’s very little evidence of collusion. They seem to be competing with each other quite strongly....
...The pool isn’t for serious swimmers, being 35 feet long and a slightly strange triangular shape, but ideal if you’re looking for some R&R....
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