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...Kissinger’s stints in government came between 1969 and 1977, when he served under Republican presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, at a time when cold war rivalries were evolving and economic tensions...
...The outsider-insider’s quest for belonging ends with his friendship with Döpfner, now chief executive of the Axel Springer media group, who recalls that “sometimes we sat for half an hour holding hands”....
...While Smith is dealt an even hand by Turnage and Richard Thomas’s libretto, critical barbs are reserved for the media....
...It’s hard to overstate the pressure SoftBank and its founder Masayoshi Son are under to pull off a premium valuation, as the FT’s Richard Waters has written....
...“It may be that Richard decides to jump before he is pushed,” said one person briefed on the draft report by Heppinstall. And that’s not all in the world of media scandals....
...In it he became Little Richard, the angel none of us ever deserved who once said, I’m not conceited, I’m convinced. ‘Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins’ is at Victoria Miro, London, June 2-July 29....
...Chief executive Richard Price said the fundraising would help support a series of online journals free to read and paid for by the authors or backers which it plans to make available in the coming months...
...Wilson Sonsini has hired Richard Goold as a corporate partner in its London office. He was previously global head of tech law for Ernst & Young....
...Its chief, Dan Springer, had already sold $82m worth of shares in the company earlier in the year, according to InsiderScore....
...German publishers vs Google: The US tech giant is facing a fresh complaint from Germany’s largest publishers, including Axel Springer, which are demanding that the EU intervene in Google’s plan to stop the...
...The market capitalisation of Google’s owner has grown by about $850bn since the start of the year, Richard Waters reports from San Francisco....
...Richard Rushfield, who previously worked at the Los Angeles Times and Gawker, last month spun his newsletter about Hollywood into a new business; Lessin has invested....
...Job moves Sportech CEO Richard McGuire and finance director Tom Hearne will both step down from the betting technology group next month....
...Opinion: Many judge tech chief executives by their pioneering work but Apple’s sales success alone is enough to vindicate Tim Cook, argues Richard Waters. 2....
...Kirkland & Ellis has hired Richard Husseini as a tax partner in its Houston office....
...by Richard A Easterlin, Springer £9.99 Does money buy you happiness? Easterlin, the grandfather of “happiness economics”, has long argued it does not....
...The tough economy has caused “headwinds”, admitted Mr Springer at DocuSign — though he claimed these would be outweighed by the “tailwinds” from the shift to the cloud....
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...Big Tech, as Richard Waters writes, is emerging from the crisis stronger than ever, and a distributed workforce could give it more power and control over any potential competition....
...Read up on the fallen Wall Street analyst turned financial media mogul, who managed to convince Germany’s Axel Springer to pay over $343m for his company in 2015....
...Axel Springer shares are set to drop off the public market after the company struck a takeover deal this month with KKR, the private equity group....
...The market for public equity sales is opening up again after the slowest start in four years, report the FT’s Richard Henderson and DD’s Miles Kruppa....
...Richard Cormack, who co-runs Goldman’s Emea equity capital markets team (and also sits on the hospital’s charity appeal board), tops the fundraising so far, with his co-head Christoph Stanger second....
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