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...Buffett’s company also invested $2.6bn in Paramount Global, the US media group formerly known as ViacomCBS, and bought $400mn worth of shares in lender Ally Financial....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. You can build it, but will they come?...
...Incidentally, a plethora of media outlets (inc....
...‘Perfect scenario’ Those look like V-shaped projections, Andrew Glenn thought to himself....
...Beijing tells Chinese media to censor Alibaba probe coverage China’s government has told the country’s media to censor reporting on an antitrust probe into tech group Alibaba, as authorities crack down on...
...Ripple has subsequently drawn on its main asset — its cryptocurrency reserves — to try to draw more users to its technology as it looks beyond the banks....
...Pakistan has significant reserves of low-grade coal, but in 2016 had only one coal-fired power station....
...Indeed, the fact that these ads can be targeted makes advertising spend can be more efficient....
...Hence this morning’s news that Barrick and Randgold are joining forces in an $18bn deal to create an even more efficient producer....
...One way may have been social media....
...The 19th century newspaper editor Horace Greeley urged young Americans to “Go West” to the unsettled frontier....
...“The real concern for most companies contemplating an IPO isn’t the challenge of going public, it is the obligations and opportunities that come with being public,” said Lise Buyer, a partner at Class V...
...Updates about UBS’ Utility Settlement Coin have been percolating through the media since August....
...The company gave no reserve price or guidance on valuation for the patents it wishes to sell....
...The elimination of menial tasks has freed us up to do more interesting work, while cheap labour has made it more efficient to turn humans into automatons than to displace us entirely....
...(The Atlantic) London skyline 1616 v 2016 Juxtaposed images sketched 400 years apart show the change in the city’s skyline from the banks of the Thames. (The Guardian)...
...“We have a small technological aristocracy and a middle class struggling to catch up with the demands of a more efficient economy....
...As the world’s media now embraces a manufactured ‘Craig Wright media storm’, we should probably add some detail on how this story has developed and we need to look at the evidence thus far presented....
...Speaking at a conference organised by CNBC, the media group, Mr Icahn branded BlackRock a “very dangerous company” because of its clout in the high-yield exchange traded fund market....
...Isis has built an efficient war machine that lavishes money on loyal members while squeezing others....
...Though, as we have already stressed, the world’s most tax efficient millionaires don’t tend to operate on a cash-only basis....
...However, it is not just about pushing the technological frontier....
...“He has lots of beachfront property, and there’s only so much of it,” says Maggie Wilderotter, chief executive of Frontier Communications, which has a business partnership with Dish....
...Such a performance has caught the attention of the Federal Reserve, which warned earlier this month that valuation metrics for smaller firms in the social media and biotechnology industries “do appear substantially...
...I have spoken earlier about flawed risk management and misguided belief in efficient market theory....
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