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...Two South African commissions have found Bain helped hobble the country’s formerly esteemed revenue service....
...Tom Braithwaite comments that Amazon is being punished for its transparency in revealing profit margins for its cloud services that would bring them under the new regime....
...If successful, the trip on New Shepard would be the first commercial space flight to take a civilian beyond the Kármán line, the internationally recognised edge of space, more than 60 miles above earth....
...Knoll Bassett oversaw the company’s Planning Unit, its interior design service, and communicated her schemes to clients in an accessible, concrete way via what she called “paste-ups” — tactile, visually...
...Although he was knighted last year for his services to British film, theatre and television, he plays down his job as “helping the creative environment”....
...The Dow was “cratering”, Shepard Smith, a Fox News host, announced on Monday. “No one has ever seen a point drop just like we just witnessed”....
...Keane Group, an energy services company, closed on Friday at $14.30 versus its IPO price of $19....
...Blue Origin is the frontrunner to provide the engine for Vulcan, the new space launch system being developed by United Launch Alliance, the main provider of space launch services to the US military....
...“Liquidity is located in a few of the mega deals and a lot of the turnover has been lumped in those extremely large deals,” says James Shepard, head of investment grade debt capital markets at Mizuho....
...Late Friday night Blue Origin posted a new video of its New Shepard rocket booster flying into space a second time and then landing safely again back in West Texas....
...Cinema and theatre are exercises in compression: internally coherent two-hour narratives that must find space for beauty and insight without skimping on the rudiments of exposition....
...They include Slack — the group messaging app that is growing rapidly — and Dropbox, the cloud storage service for accessing files from any device....
...Financial success and dazzling new technology alone might have been enough to earn Apple’s steely chief executive the FT’s vote as the 2014 Person of the Year, but Mr Cook’s brave exposition of his values...
...Ian Whittaker, analyst at Liberum Capital, said the most likely deal for UBM in the coming year is to turn itself into a pure events company by selling PR Newswire, a content distribution service....
...[But] we view Experian as a core support-services holding with a scalable business model, consistent cash flow returns and high barriers to entry....
...Forget the loss of electronics manufacturing to Asia, which began in the 1980s, or the shift of information technology services to India, which has been the story of the past decade: the R&D and design work...
...The narrative proceeds by immersion rather than exposition....
...The exposition of Grupo Santander clients in Optimal Strategic is EUR 2.33 billion, of which EUR 2.01 billion belong to institutional investors and international private banking customers....
...This all comes together in a thought-provoking but not wholly convincing exposition of what they see as key polarities in the attributes assigned to each of the five types of business....
...Reilly and Shepard Smith into stars....
...To buy this book at 20 per cent discount call the FT ordering service on 0870 429 5884 or go to www.ft.com/bookshop...
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