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...Last year, it ran a marketing campaign scolding Apple for not adopting Rich Communication Services, or RCS, a superior standard to SMS for rich media and attachments....
...It added that it is working with the GSMA to include stronger encryption under the new RCS standard....
...He began investing in GameStop through RC in 2020, eventually accumulating a 12.9 per cent stake....
...This year, the company struck an agreement with Cohen that allowed three members of Cohen’s firm, RC Ventures, to join the board and created a committee to explore alternatives for the company’s Buy Buy...
...The varied portfolio within Alleghany Capital, including a steel fabricator and a maker of toy figurines, managed a healthy 12 per cent return on equity in 2021....
...Wayne Wicker, chief investment officer of ICMA-RC, a pension plan manager, argues that the recent dispersion comes down mostly to the performance of individual companies....
...Charged with calculating the fair value of Dell Inc before its 2013 buyout by Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners, Laster, below, ruled that leveraged buyout models used by PE firms such as Silver Lake...
...Mr Colao had a brief stint running media company RCS Media, owner of La Gazzetta dello Sport, the Italian sports newspaper and one of his favourite titles....
...“A lot of the tech names have led the market all year, and people are getting a little concerned,” said Wayne Wicker, chief investment officer of ICMA-RC, a pension fund....
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...Like the Economist Group, RCS has a fragmented shareholding. Over the years the Economist Group has hit few strategic or editorial bumps....
...In addition to creating that new platform, Apollo said it was acquiring RCS Capital, which distributes investment products to independent brokers and financial advisers, and will merge it into AR Global....
...Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, the carmaker controlled by the Agnellis, is the biggest shareholder in RCS Mediagroup, publisher of Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera....
...The RCS reshuffle is likely to be welcomed by investors, who have voiced concerns that Mr Schorsch’s role overseeing both ARCP and RCS had created uncertainty around the latter’s shares....
...Shares in RCS were off 11.4 per cent, and New York Reit, another property company where Mr Schorsch is chief executive, was down 2.2 per cent....
...RCS & RDS, one of the region’s biggest cable and telecommunications operators, is thought to be one private company considering listing....
...The company’s Sunkist, A & W and RC Cola sodas are also at risk of losing shelf space in supermarkets and drugstores as retailers refresh options....
...Barclays and RCS Capital, the investment banking division of Realty Capital Securities, were advisers to ARCP while Goldman Sachs advised Cole....
...Bob Bernstein, a US lawyer who has represented metals fabricators, said the proposed reforms “try to solve a problem which, because of longer and longer queues, has led to bigger and bigger financial incentives...
...The latter is an interesting turn of phrase, for it suggests the problem runs much deeper than the peripheral explanation which has so far been expressed by end-users and fabricators....
...the 1990s, he began to declare in his annual letters that he was looking for companies in the $2bn to $3bn range, and in 1995 he doubled the size of Berkshire with two small deals – Helzberg Diamonds and RC...
...Proto holds stakes in several large listed Italian companies, including Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena and RCS Mediagroup, which owns Corriere della Sera, the Milanese daily newspaper....
...The downturn has spurred speculation of mergers in Italy, the most notable of which could be a combination of RCS Mediagroup’s publications – Corriere della Sera and Gazzetta dello Sport – and la Stampa,...
...In the years since RCS was first developed, independent developers’ chat apps have become so pervasive that Ovum, an analyst group, calculated it cost operators $13.9bn in lost messaging revenues last year...
...Consumers, fabricators and even producers are trying to offload metal.” The shift offers an early indication of what many believe is now a period of recession in the eurozone economy....
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