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...London’s art dealers are concerned about the news of six redundancies at Whitechapel Gallery, including of respected curators Lydia Yee, Candy Stobbs and Tarini Malik....
...assisted devices, Reid Hoffman (middle), co-founder of LinkedIn, who is now a partner at venture capitalist firm Greylock Partners, and a board member at Microsoft after its takeover, with spouse Michelle Yee...
...Oi Yee Choo, Singapore investment banking chief at UBS, is joining the Temasek-backed trading platform, iSTOX as chief commercial officer....
...During an analyst meeting, Robert Bradway, chief executive of Amgen, said he was not convinced that splitting the company would add much value to shareholders, according to Michael Yee, an analyst at RBC...
...During the era of Anderson’s leftfield projects, Yee observes drily, there was just one gallery in SoHo....
...“A vital pension system has the potential to boost stock market liquidity, extend the yield curve, lower borrowing costs and improve corporate governance,” wrote Robert Palacios, senior pension economist...
...Their core business – distributing small loans to help poor borrowers start income-generating work – is still in demand. ”Investors are still viewing microfinance as an alternative asset class,” says Robert...
...The founders of TFF, who include actor Robert De Niro (pictured above), hoped film would lure people downtown, stimulate dialogue and help heal a shattered community....
...Kohlberg Kravis Roberts plans to invest $250m in the mobile phone tower unit of Bharti Airtel, India’s largest wireless operator, marking the US private equity firm’s second investment in the country....
...Kohlberg Kravis Roberts led India’s largest private equity deal with a $900m investment in 2006 for control of Flextronics International, the telecom software developer since renamed Aricent....
...They are even expecting a recession,” Robert Beynat, chief executive of Vinexpo, the world’s largest wine and spirits show, told the Financial Times....
...However, neither place is “a bed of roses for intellectual property”, argues Robert Jones, head of government relations for India and China at GlaxoSmithKline....
...Robert Prior-Wandesforde, at HSBC, the banking group, said: “The fundamental story is unchanged and that is that demand, fuelled by too loose a policy stance, continues to run well above the supply potential...
...India represents “one of best new market opportunities for American industry”, said Robert Trice, vice-president at Lockheed Martin....
...Reporting by Sundeep Tucker in Hong Kong, Amy Yee and Jo Johnson in New Delhi, Joe Leahy in Mumbai, and Andrew Parker in London...
...Robert Coury, chief executive of Mylan, told the FT: “This transaction represents that absolute broad-based platform to get to that level....
...Engaging India appears every Thursday morning exclusively on FT.com India and is written by Jo Johnson, the Financial Times’ South Asia bureau chief; Amy Yee, New Delhi correspondent; and Joe Leahy, Mumbai...
...The Reserve cultivates epicurean and aesthetic appreciation with a full calendar of food events, wine tastings, and lectures and seminars hosted by a star line-up of experts such as Robert Mondavi....
...Kodak also announced that Robert Brust, chief financial officer since 2000, plans to retire at the end of January 2007....
...Robert Brust, chief financial officer, said: “The act of reducing employment by more than 15,000 people thus far, in more than 40 countries, and dealing with a variety of labor laws and severance plans,...
...Robert De Niro, the actor, is planning a $43m hotel downtown in Tribeca, Marriott will open a hotel in Harlem next year and this month, Manhattan’s only kosher hotel, the 22-room Blue Moon Hotel, will open...
...technology is never easy, but the speed of today’s digital innovation and its near-instantaneous spread around the globe is turning such forecasting into the modern chief executive’s nightmare, writes Dan Roberts...
...“Wall Street thinks this is a $4bn market,” says Robert DeSalvio, vice-president of marketing for Foxwoods. “We think there’s a 37 per cent penetration rate so far.”...
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