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...The huge value shifts seen during previous significant transitions in the digital world might also justify Zuckerberg’s inclination to ignore dissenting views and plough ahead, Landis suggested....
...Additional reporting by Richard Waters in San Francisco...
...Other start-ups promising to make home ownership more accessible have attracted venture money, with Landis Technologies raising $165mn from Sequoia Capital, Jay Z’s Roc Nation and others last year....
...“The current juggernauts are really hard to stop,” said Kevin Landis, chief investment officer at Firsthand Capital Management....
...In The Envious Siblings (WW Norton, RRP£9.99), Landis Blair offers a similar kind of tribute, in this case paying homage to the work of Edward Gorey....
...With a few notable exceptions (such as Richard Desmond, then owner of the Daily Express, who ordered a £580 bottle of wine), the subjects seem uncannily abstemious....
...“It’s not as dramatic as phylloxera,” says global viticultural consultant Richard Smart. “It’s well described by the word ‘insidious’. Like some cancers.” For Smart, though, there are villains....
...Richard Mora, Landis+Gyr’s chief executive, told the FT that the planned sale would release Landis+Gyr from the constraints it has faced as a subsidiary of cash-strapped Toshiba....
...Richard Mora, Landis+Gyr’s chief executive, said the planned flotation would remove financial constraints imposed by the Japanese group, which bought the company in 2011....
...Kevin Landis, the chief investment officer at Firsthand Capital Management, remembers a time 20 or so years ago when the tech earnings season involved digesting results from hundreds of companies — both...
...Richard Baker, the Greenwich, Connecticut, scion who put together Hudson’s Bay, burnished his relationship as a property wizard by essentially getting the rest of Saks for free....
...Inflexion, the UK mid-market private equity firm, has hired Richard Booth as investment director and Tom Pemberton as assistant director. Booth started his career at L.E.K....
...But the mysteriously named duo Ninja and Yo-Landi have kept the ball rolling with a succession of scabrously catchy rap-rave songs and eye-catching videos....
...“The psychology will be the mirror of the one today, when the lock-up comes off and people sell,” Mr Landis said....
...In this new world, tech names that once excited Wall Street, such as Oracle, Cisco and Intel, “are all tired, wheezing, stale old men,” said Mr Landis....
...As an existing shareholder, Mr Landis has every reason to hope....
...“I can remember life before IMDb,” Richard Hicks, the casting director of Gravity and Zero Dark Thirty told me....
...Read Richard Clayton’s review of the ‘Art of the Pop Video’ exhibition...
...“My first impression is, it sounds low,” said Kevin Landis, chief investment officer of Firsthand Funds, which already owns Facebook stock....
...What depth of information do you really have about them, how many years will it take to figure out how to fully monetise them,” said Kevin Landis, chief investment officer at Firsthand Value Technology Fund...
...“This has the feel of the Google IPO, coming at a time when the rest of the world is not in the midst of a great boom, but they are,” said Kevin Landis, chief investment officer of Firsthand Technology Value...
...Sponsors must be aware of the risks but equally, the long-term benefits of sponsorship, whether individuals or teams, far outweighs any negatives,” says Richard Moore, chief executive of Capitalize, the...
...Companies account for 60-65 per cent of the end-market for technology, according to Richard Keiser, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein....
...says Kevin Landis, chief investment officer of Firsthand Funds. His technology fund has Yahoo as a top 10 holding....
...Jean Landis, a researcher who lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, discovered that she and her husband had different residential ideals just after they married 20 years ago....
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