Hints and tips:
...He was stupid back then and, when he’d get a new burner phone, he’d send out a tranche of texts reading: “Hello this is 10 Foot, if u r painting graf then pls save this number.”...
...The International Maritime Research and Development Board (IMRB) is a $5bn programme, governed by the IMO, to co-ordinate and fund applied R&D to catalyse the introduction of zero-carbon fuels and technologies...
...Needham and D. Hotson. Charlie Bean: Few downturns are exactly alike....
...Or perhaps it’s: “This will help the company accelerate its R&D and manufacturing expertise, pulling forward its cash flows by a few years.”...
...Diane Coyle, Bennett professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge: Old problems — low investment, low levels of private R&D, inadequate infrastructure, the dysfunctional housing market, policy instability...
...His history and connections have made China a natural extension for his company’s operations. Nearly a third of Zoom’s workers are based in the country, where much of its R&D takes place....
...More broadly we would specifically highlight: (a) the depth of services and creative solutions that WPP can offer clients; (b) the scale of resources, expertise and IP across its business and it’s focus...
...Mark Carney: flying low Twitter is no medium for serious central bankers (guess what: “@MarkCarney_BOE: Making waves with the GBP since 2012” is a fake)....
...Singapore Number of tech start-ups 4,300 as of 2016 Government support Programmes providing equity funding, preferential loans or R&D financing, access to co-working space and incubation facilities, tax...
...Huawei established a microwave-focused R&D centre in Milan, Italy — a hotspot for microwave radar research — plucking researchers from Siemens and elsewhere for a product development team specialising in...
...In regulatory filings this week, Apple said the rise was “driven primarily by an increase in headcount-related expenses to support expanded R&D activities”....
...“Today trading between banks and institutions is difficult, time-consuming and costly, which is why we all have big back offices,” said Julio Faura, head of R&D and innovation at Santander....
...BTG also sold a stake in hospital chain Rede d’Or São Luiz to Singapore’s government investment company GIC for R$2.38bn and arranged a R$6bn credit line from Brazil’s credit guarantee fund....
...Meanwhile, the company’s R&D as a percentage of sales, which has been falling since 2001, is creeping ever lower....
...The event closed with the premiere of an original song by the R&B artist The Weeknd. The reaction from the crowd was muted. It had not been a great presentation....
...Yet Actavis is also a well-known cost-cutter: it is planning to extract annual savings of $1.8bn with a $400m cut to R&D spend....
...the virtues of the deal, claiming it is a “win-win” for society, then say it will mean job losses and big cuts in R&D The target says they will not accept anything less than £58.85, 10 per cent higher...
...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....
...You get a job in the foreign service and you have a career there. Not many outsiders are allowed in.” Here’s the full founders list: Nita and Mukesh Ambani (Reliance Industries Ltd.)...
...Stevan Riley’s film subpoenas every character witness available, from the Bond actors to two American presidents, both Bond fans, the late R. Reagan and the living B. Clinton....
...His first space flight was Gemini 8, which he commanded, the first civilian to fly a US spacecraft. With fellow astronaut David R....
...They were long-lost friends and I read later that they’d got married. I was so pleased that Pan Am had reunited them. The jets revolutionised everything. You could get from A to B in half the time....
...Forget the loss of electronics manufacturing to Asia, which began in the 1980s, or the shift of information technology services to India, which has been the story of the past decade: the R&D and design work...
...to a “knowledge and service economy”....
...Is manufacturing connected to R&D? In most cases, yes. Mostly when manufacturing moves out then R&D follows shortly behind. So you will eventually lose the R&D too.” He points to DSM’s own experience....
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