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...In the opening scenes of Netflix’s 3 Body Problem, an adaptation of a Chinese sci-fi bestseller partly set in 1960s Beijing, an academic endures violent beatings from Red Guards because of his belief in...
...public company’s engineers to examine the software at his new acquisition....
...The company argues its hardware, software and installation set-up offers customers an opportunity to save money on electricity. The business is also growing outside Europe....
...“We allege that, for years, SolarWinds and Brown ignored repeated red flags about SolarWinds’ cyber risks, which were well known throughout the company and led one of Brown’s subordinates to conclude: ‘We...
...China’s regulators are threatening his $69bn takeover of cloud software group VMware by not signing off on the blockbuster acquisition, according to the FT’s Qianer Liu, Cheng Leng and Ryan McMorrow....
...Keeping up with red tape is costly and time-consuming. Spending on compliance by the financial services sector has risen more than $50bn since 2009....
...The big question is what due diligence Trafigura conducted related to its counterparties, and how it missed more than one red flag....
...Operations and people management WINNER: American Red Cross Originality: 8; Leadership: 8; Impact: 8; Total: 24 Rather than spend $1.4mn a year on outside counsel to handle the administration of donations...
...Michel Léger, head of innovation at Ingenico, concedes that software-based point-of-sale solutions have brought “a new era of payment acceptance”, but he argues Apple’s offering will complement physical...
...“He bet it all on red at the roulette table. It came up black.” At least in the short term, Saylor shows every sign of being able to ride out the storm....
...Bankers arranged $15bn in debt financing to fund the leveraged buyout of software maker Citrix....
...These may have grown extraordinarily fast during the Covid-19 pandemic but they are still flooded with red ink....
...But Tomasz Tunguz at Redpoint Ventures calculated this week that even after a near-70 per cent fall, cloud software companies still trade at a 50 per cent premium to the price-to-revenue multiples they were...
...We are a software as a service business. We charge banks a transactional fee. Every loan that we analyse is a transactional charge....
...In the red-hot buyout industry, which has struck a record $1tn-plus in deals in 2021, takeovers of software companies have become a perennial gold mine for dealmakers....
...Monday: There are earnings reports after the market close in New York from PC and printer maker HP Inc, business software provider Workday and video conferencing company Zoom....
...if there is anything the government doesn’t like, really does cross a red line.”...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 15 ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Jim Whitehurst, the former chief executive of Red Hat, had been put in pole position to take the top job after IBM agreed to pay $37bn for the open source software company in 2017....
...BlackRock’s Aladdin software system may not bring the fund industry everything it wishes, the Lex column argues....
...Zoom and Five9 abandon $14.7bn deal Zoom Video Communications’ bid to buy the cloud software provider has collapsed only weeks after the US Department of Justice raised national security concerns over the...
...Bill Marczak, research fellow at Citizen Lab, a non-profit group that has extensively documented NSO’s tactics, said Amnesty’s findings suggested that Apple had a “major blinking red five-alarm-fire problem...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on September 21 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...Periods defined by their innovative start-ups and restless reinvention give way to phases when industry leaders buy up the most promising newcomers and either snuff out their ideas or bend them to their...
...Robbins said the company had not seen any “red flags” to suggest customers were bringing forward purchases, though he added: “We would agree there are early warning flags.”...
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