Roy E. Billings

Thomson Reuters has $8bn war chest for AI-focused deals, says chief

...Over the past 18 months it has spent about $2bn on buying companies such as SurePrep, Casetext and Pagero, a global e-invoicing and tax solutions business....

March 11, 2024

Travel

Easy riders: an e-bike tour through Turkey’s Taurus Mountains

...In every sense, an e-bike is a great leveller....

July 10, 2023

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

LexTechnology sector

DocuSign: new CEO must help boost billings Premium

...Last year billings, which includes deferred revenue, rose 37 per cent. This year they are forecast to grow just 7 per cent....

September 27, 2022

News in-depthFrance

‘They fuel anxiety’: Paris to vote on ubiquitous e-scooters

...He is pushing for a ban despite the scooters’ billing as an environmentally friendly mode of transport. “We want to bring a sense of peace back to the public space,” he said....

March 31, 2023

The Big Read

How AI is transforming the business of advertising

...The FTC alleges that its “pay-to-play” adverts force sellers to spend more for top billing....

February 11, 2024

News in-depthPaul Weiss

‘Project Springsteen’: how law firm Paul Weiss raided rival Kirkland in London push

...On a balmy Friday evening in the middle of August, senior partners from two of America’s most powerful law firms were among the thousands packed into Chicago’s Wrigley Field as Bruce Springsteen and the E...

September 15, 2023

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Summit

Guiding business in a new global age

Telecom Italia SpA

Vivendi to fight Telecom Italia’s plan to sell landline network to KKR

...Vivendi has invested more than €4bn in building its stake in TIM since 2015, billing it initially as a strategy to create a media champion in southern Europe....

June 22, 2023

Nilanjana Roy

Children deserve better than this morass of poorly written books by celebrities

...“Children are demanding,” the late E B White, author of such classics as Charlotte’s Web, told The Paris Review in 1969....

November 1, 2022

Europe Express

Why China was the ghost at the EU’s summit banquet Premium

...Liberal transport minister Volker Wissing has demanded exemptions to the rules for carbon-neutral e-fuels....

March 24, 2023

Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers

In-house legal work: best practice case studies

...private equity firm’s legal team worked with software developers to create an online portal combining several applications to help on day-to-day work, such as non-disclosure agreements, deal management, e-billing...

May 5, 2023

Nilanjana Roy

In praise of the ‘holiday read’

...There were travel books that took readers through “wild Norway” or “joyful Russia”, or big game hunting, but also the brisk Bicycling for Ladies by the “wheelwoman” Maria E Ward....

June 9, 2022

The Weekend Essay

The untold history of today’s Russian-speaking hackers

...Meanwhile, the purchaser sent a stack of e-gold, a digital currency that was a forerunner of bitcoin....

August 5, 2023

Film

International Film Festival of India ranges from noisy bravado to quiet delights

...One outlier was Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury’s Lost, a Kolkata-set thriller that charts a female journalist’s investigation into the disappearance of a young theatre actor accused of Maoist terrorism....

December 2, 2022

Rahul Roy-Chaudhury

Rhetoric is far ahead of reality when it comes to UK-India ties

...Britain remains one of a handful currently denied the ease of e-visa travel to India while India is on the short list requiring visas for transit....

April 20, 2022

ReviewNon-Fiction

Profiles in Ignorance — are US politicians getting dumber?

...Here George W Bush takes star billing. Learning perhaps from Reagan’s slander on trees, Bush sunnily observed: “I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully”....

November 3, 2022

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

ReviewMusic

Bobby Sparks II review — the funk powers on at Ronnie Scott’s

...And Philip Lassiter, trumpeter and horn arranger for Prince’s New Power Generation band, led a pulsating cover of the late Roy Hargrove’s neo-soul classic “Hard Groove”....

May 27, 2022

HTSI

Mmm – Margate: where the grub is as good as the galleries

...Top billing goes to the cruffins, which ooze crème pât and coulis, come topped with peanut brittle and coffee-soaked sponge and stand to attention on the counter in sugar-dusted rows....

September 20, 2022

Legal services

Legal departments wake up to digital benefits beyond efficiency

...“Meaningful digitisation and transformation shouldn’t [just] be about whether firms can use e-signatures or document management — that’s just how law firms should be working,” says Delkousis....

September 21, 2022

Special ReportAccelerating Business

Ambitious legal innovators help companies work faster and smarter

...Brightflag Most customers of Brightflag’s legal matter management and e-billing platform are first-time legal tech buyers....

November 9, 2022

Nilanjana Roy

Churails, djinns and rakshasas — India’s monsters go mainstream

...Authors from Arundhati Roy to Perumal Murugan and Wendy Doniger have struggled with a range of threats, from long court cases to publishers who have caved in, sometimes withdrawing or pulping books....

November 26, 2021

Moral Money

US Big Tech faces fresh governance risks Premium

...But one notable feature, which is somewhat different from the past, is that environmental topics have star billing too....

May 2, 2022

Nilanjana Roy

Why a book-lover like me turned from a Finisher to an Abandoner

...better on audiobook / From Zarir F Udwadia, Mumbai, India An Elizabethan essayist shaped my reading habits / From Khalid Ikram, Potomac, MD, US Apply ‘the mathematics of love’ algo to books / From Frank E...

July 29, 2021

Letter

Letter: Apply ‘the mathematics of love’ algo to books

...Frank E BannisterDublin, Ireland Letter in response to this letter: To read or not to read is an age-old dilemma / From Fredrik Stjernberg, Stockholm, Sweden...

August 6, 2021

Due Diligence

‘Succession’: art imitates tycoon family life Premium

...L.E.K....

October 1, 2021

Moral Money

Nestlé’s move to clean up the chocolate trade Premium

...s newsletter we talk about two other signs of change: NGOs are having more success in prompting western chocolate companies to think about their supply chains — and ESG topics have suddenly got central billing...

January 31, 2022

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