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...Tech tools — Fender Mustang Micro Jonathan Margolis has been reviewing musical gadget accompaniments including this £90 portable, personal guitar amp from Fender....
...Its annual revenues rose 47 per cent to $7.2bn and its shares are trading at around triple their pre-pandemic price. Dave Lee says it has a post-lockdown strategy for continued success....
...Jonathan Margolis has some smart standing desk solutions....
...The same thing happened last month when he recommended the Signal messaging service and unrelated Signal Advance rose by more than 6,000 per cent....
...Choose between Classic, Hydrangea, Rose and Premium subscription plans – the latter of which promises “the most exotic varieties available” – with each sourced directly from its grower....
...Tech tools — Coding with Kanye This £300 kit computer from Kano (in which Kanye West is an investor) is also a really good little Windows 10 machine, writes Jonathan Margolis....
...Jonathan Margolis has reviewed a service that mutes background noise in any communication app....
...Lenovo reported sales rose 7 per cent to $13.3bn for the June quarter. Its dual headquarters in Beijing and North Carolina may offer it some protection from US-China trade tensions. 4....
...But, in terms of financing the deal, Xerox is a much smaller company — its market cap is only $8bn and HP Inc's is now $30bn, after its shares rose 11 per cent today on the report....
...Jonathan Margolis on the software that scans work emails for signs of stress....
...Tech tools — Huma-i air monitor Huma-i is the first portable air tester Jonathan Margolis has seen....
...Facebook shares rose 7 per cent in morning trade....
...Its stock rose nearly 52 per cent to $22 by mid-morning. Network International's shares are still well above Wednesday's 435p IPO price....
...Its shares rose more than 3 per cent on Wednesday on the news....
...jonathan.margolis@ft.com @TheFutureCritic Lucy Kellaway is away...
...It rose 4 per cent in 2014, and around 6 per cent the year before....
...Nathan Blecharczyk, the company’s co-founder and chief technology officer, told Murad Ahmed that Airbnb was focusing on China after demand in the country for its services rose eightfold last year....
...Jonathan Margolis says it evokes the springy, satisfying action and sound of a typewriter pretty accurately....
...Jonathan Margolis has been putting the drone maker’s first foray into ground-based cameras to the test....
...In 1906, before even talkies existed, a Pennsylvania cinema wafted the smell of roses towards the audience during a newsreel on American football’s Rose Bowl Game....
...Elizabeth I was given an “arm watch” by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, in 1571, writes Jonathan Margolis....
...Video: Jonathan Margolis on why the iPhone 6 is the best mobile ever made Why Jony Ive and Marc Newson are the perfect double act This article first appeared on howtospendit.com...
...Eventually he was cleared and rose to be a leading party propagandist, PR man, top-level translator and liaison with foreign journalists and dignitaries, a kind of media-friendly revolutionary without portfolio...
...Last year, for example, figures from EBS show that volumes rose 1 per cent month-on-month in November, before falling 31 per cent in December....
...Last week, Godiva held its first post-sale board meeting in Brussels with new appointees – former Burberrys CEO Rose Marie Bravo, Boston Beer director Jay Margolis and Body Shop chief executive Peter Saunders...
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