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...At Netflix “F&R” — freedom and responsibility — is the creed. But there is a hard edge. This company’s mantra is being “a team, not a family”....
...However, given the presence of Help to Buy as well as a lower proportion of SME builders, the sector should be more resilient than in 2008-09....
...Wilton Fry, an analyst at RBC, said the chairman’s comments “pour cold water” over hopes for a radical overhaul....
...Charles Fry Another member of the ex-Marsh & McLennan club, Mr Fry worked at insurer Novae as chief financial officer until its acquisition by Axis Capital last year....
...Aside from Sinopec, Chinese companies buying assets in Brazil range from China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG), the builder of the dam of the same name, and energy transmission specialist State Grid Corp...
...“They all said, ‘We think the shift to electric vehicles is accelerating and we have only limited R&D money to invest and we are going to put all of it into the electric car revolution’,” Mr Robson says....
...Website builder Wix.com jumped 4.3 per cent to $19.72 on an upgrade to buy from Deutsche Bank, which pointed to “significant potential for margin expansion” and set a target price of $27....
...Donald R Horton, chairman of the eponymous company, said that the group was “well-positioned to capture demand in the spring selling season” as sales accelerated in January....
...Problems in the Brazilian and Mexican oil industries unleashed by the plunge in crude prices have ensnared two pillars of Singapore Inc — rig builders Keppel Corporation and Sembcorp Industries — and through...
...•Small not giant: the era of vast R&D departments, funded by quasi monopolies, like Bell Labs or Xerox Parc, is essentially over....
...This followed separate figures released on Monday by the National Association of Home Builders, showing that although builder confidence was recovering it remained below levels from a year ago....
...Shares of D.R. Horton surged 10 per cent to $23 after the builder almost doubled profits last quarter to $123.3m and it issued a bullish outlook for the market....
...Kennedy, the second carrier in the latest Gerald R....
...Horizon’s cash allowed him to hire some serious programming talent, including Inderjeet Mani, an artificial intelligence expert who is now head of R&D at Yahoo Labs....
...And both were small fry. Linx, a retail software maker, managed to raise R$527.9m ($265.1m) in a primary and secondary offering in February....
...The high-profile slot helped to propel merchandising opportunities: sales of Peppa toys at Toys R Us in the US beat forecasts by 25 per cent over Christmas....
...Mr D’Aloisio also received support from the Stanford Research Institute, the R&D unit that produced Apple’s virtual assistant Siri....
...Many have withdrawn from remote regions, while some builders such as Brookfield Incorporações are selling off non-core assets to lower leverage....
...A 2009 government study by consultants Halcrow and Sinergia estimated the cost of an economy ticket on the train at R$200, compared with R$400 for flying, with the train journey time from Rio to São Paulo...
...Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg had predicted R$255.3m....
...When McDonald’s bought advertising on Twitter this year, it was hoping to drum up some goodwill for its burgers and fries....
...D.R. Horton Inc. was over 8 bp tighter and quoted in the 210-225 bp in early trading before retreating to the 218-228 context at the time of this report....
...“We are good at the R in R&D, but not so good at the D,” said Pat McFadden, a business minister, who will announce the investment today....
...Almost all of this was to builders and property developers....
...LDC, which has purchased the 110 hectare site, is backed by Royal Bank of Scotland and R&D Construction Group, the biggest builders in south-west Scotland....
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