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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

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

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

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

ReviewVisual Arts

Morris Hirshfield — intense visions of an outsider

...Even during the Depression, his company, E-Z Walk, brought in $1mn a year and allowed Hirshfield to live in a spacious house in Borough Park, Brooklyn....

October 5, 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

News in-depthUK economy

FT economists survey: ‘anaemic’ economy needs ‘investment, investment, investment’

...Happily, the Frelimo slogan did go on to say: “Victoria e Cerba!”....

January 2, 2024

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

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

Investments

Investors’ Chronicle: Legal & General, Abrdn, InterContinental Hotels Group

...Chief executive Keith Barr is, however, “confident in our business model and the attractive industry fundamentals that will drive long-term sustainable growth”....

August 12, 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

Life & Arts

The summer that changed my life

...Then in Kona, the six-room Hulihe’e palace of the 19th-century kings, including David Kalakaua, who was the first to have hula set down in writing — no, not the pelvic shimmy but a fierce, formal, bardic...

July 30, 2021

#techFT

Ted Lasso gives Apple human touch

...It is full of f-bombs courtesy of its “hard man” player Roy Kent (UK readers will spot the likeness to real-life Roy Keane) and has storylines so corny and simple that they would make Love Actually’s Richard...

September 20, 2021

Nilanjana Roy

A deep dive into the wormhole of sci-fi invention

...The most cited authors are Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and Poul Anderson; women, from Ursula K Le Guin to Octavia E Butler, are under-represented, but as the dictionary grows and begins to collect citations...

February 5, 2021

The Art Market

Digital reach stretches further

...The fair has recently launched a year-round digital platform for exhibitors, as well as an “E-talks” programme....

April 22, 2021

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

ReviewFilm

Toronto Film Festival — Thai tale to the rescue

...But perhaps the most impressive was The Rescue by E Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, who won an Oscar for 2018’s vertigo-inducing climbing documentary Free Solo....

September 16, 2021

ReviewAlbums

Gretchen Parlato: Flor — a diverse, Brazil-influenced repertoire

...Veteran Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira joins for a rollicking samba reading of “Roy Allan”, written by the late jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove; “Wonderful”, a paean to early childhood, features drummer...

March 19, 2021

The world in 2023

UK economists’ survey: ‘miserable’ year ahead for households

...Nicholas Barr, professor of public economics at London School of Economics (LSE): Growth in the UK will be below the average for the G7 and EU....

January 2, 2023

Art Basel’s OVR: Portals

Noah Horowitz: ‘Digital is here to stay’

...Gemini G.E.L. from Los Angeles mirrors our increased time spent at home staring at walls and windows with works from Roy Lichtenstein’s “Interior Series”, including “Venetian School I” (1996, $18,000)....

June 12, 2021

Global InsightEdward Luce

US democracy is still in the danger zone

...edward.luce@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Republicans risk being a permanent minority party / From Steven E Cerier, New York, NY, US...

May 27, 2021

News in-depthUS presidential election 2020

As Biden’s margin of victory grows, so does Republican resistance

...Mr Trump has shared Mr Barr’s memo with his tens of millions of Twitter followers....

November 10, 2020

Henry Mance

The fratboy folly of Tesla’s self-anointed Technoking

...Jeff Barr calls himself “chief evangelist” of Amazon Web Services. George W Bush called himself president of the United States....

March 19, 2021

Letter

Letter: It’s time Europe stopped fetishising fiscal discipline

...Wolfram ElsnerProfessor of Economics, University of Bremen, Germany Richard MurphyProfessor of Accounting, Sheffield University Management School Engelbert StockhammerProfessor, King’s College London Roy...

June 14, 2021

US gun violence

Gunman attacks house of judge overseeing Epstein lawsuit

...Bill Barr, the US attorney-general, on Monday said “this kind of lawless, evil action carried out against a member of the federal judiciary will not be tolerated”....

July 20, 2020

Supreme Court US

Ginsburg’s death sparks election battle over Supreme Court

...Letter in response to this article: A court battle surrounded Jefferson’s election too / From Gerald E Kubasiak, Chicago, IL, US...

September 20, 2020

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