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...Apple has invested at least $1bn in microLED R&D and even made a push into the actual manufacturing of the cutting-edge display technology....
...PepsiCo Q1, Philip Morris International Q1, RWS Holdings HY, Seagate Q3, Shimano Q1, Spotify Q1, Taylor Wimpey AGM & trading update, Tesla Q1, Texas Instruments Q1, United Parcel Service Q1, Visa Q2, W R...
...The Italian was a guest at the wedding of Alexandre Arnault in Venice in 2021 while the LVMH boss has vacationed at Della Valle’s summer home on the island of Capri....
...In Borris House, without social distancing but with two “R” s, I spoke on gardening at the annual Carlow Garden Festival....
...Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) is a lunar probe that the country’s space agency hopes to land on a small crater in Mare Nectaris, close to the Moon’s equator on the side facing Earth....
...(The good vibes were enhanced by staff, who were both excellent at their jobs and having a lot of laughs, with guests and each other — probably elated, after 2022’s welter of false starts, to finally be...
...He tells me the UK government’s R&D budget is approaching £20bn a year, and that private-sector R&D now exceeds public money roughly threefold....
...Gold bars, Bentleys, Hermès handbags, wads of cash, luxury apartments, a daring escape attempt and a police investigation that has captured global attention . . . the S$1.8bn money-laundering case gripping...
...The album takes its title from a lyric in opening number “Welcome to My Island”....
...A potential invasion of the island by China could kill supply stone dead and bring factories around the world to a halt....
...In fact the facade belongs to the famous church of San Giorgio Maggiore, designed by Andrea Palladio, and it is on an island about half a kilometre away....
...She moved to a flat in Camden after signing to Island Records in 2002. The district is London’s indie-rock heartland....
...This year Rolex is supporting Under The Pole’s Deeplife exploration programme, which studies marine animal forests in the Canary Islands. rolex.com; underthepole.org S is for SeikoThe Professional Association...
...As Bloomberg pointed out at the time, that made it bigger than about a third of S&P 500 Index members. It didn’t last. The share price was largely wiped out on Thursday, plummeting 95 per cent....
...‘Access Denied’ (Island) is released on October 1...
...We pass a few: first Eyjafjallajokull, where Arnar makes a last doomed effort to teach us the pronunciation (I’m still struggling with the rolled “r”s in “Arnar”), then Myrdalsjokull and finally Vatnajokull...
...“Island Records approached Ethan Johns to record some other people, but he said: ‘I’d like to work with Tom Jones.’...
...“I thought those guys were an R&B band who hadn’t worked that out yet,” he says lugubriously....
...And 2020’s turbulence has amounted to a revolution in San Francisco dining, and many hope the changes may be here to stay....
...And let’s not forget that Buffett’s heavy investment in the US financial sector contributed to what would become his worst performance in a decade versus the S&P 500 in 2019....
...Needless to say, the hedge fund that gained notoriety last year for taking on both Blackstone’s GSO and Toys R Us employees is now suffering heavy redemptions....
...The other day, I did a cursory trawl through earnings call transcripts of S&P 500 and FTSE 100 companies since 2007 that revealed a trove of r-rated blather....
...Ankara also faces potential US sanctions over the purchase of the S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile system, which has exacerbated already deep rifts between the two Nato allies....
...Only Senga Nengudi’s 1977 exhibition at the gallery, featuring her “R.S.V.P.” works — nylon pantyhose sculptures filled with sand to form abstracted bodies with organ-like protrusions, and then activated...
...Beautifully balanced. 12.5% Sottimano, Bric del Salto 2016 Dolcetto d’Alba, Piemonte £14.95 Lea & Sandeman L&S has a range of bargains from this producer....
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