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...A second area of rapid development has been in the miniaturised electronics needed to amplify and channel brain signals....
...US officials discovered some drones had been booby-trapped, so that if someone attempted to remove the SIM card it would explode. “It’s not like it’s sci-fi, it’s actual,” says Thomas....
...Job moves Linklaters has promoted capital markets partner Hwang Hwa Sim to global head of the practice. He will succeed Michael Voisin, whose tenure ends in April....
...They have to actually embrace this and open up to this development, which I think they should realise is inevitable.”...
...British foreign policy has focused on safe policies like development aid, or inward-looking goals such as developing a more diverse diplomatic corps....
...Gemalto has rejected a €4.3bn takeover proposal by larger rival Atos, raising the prospect of a hostile battle for the Amsterdam-based Sim card manufacturer....
...In the six months to the end of June, cash and cash equivalents at Square fell 27 per cent to $342m, as it spent more on product development....
...Sir Francis Tombs, chairman of Rolls-Royce at its privatisation in 1987, had yearned to exit what he called the “single product cul-de-sac” of aerospace....
...He also said that Samsung appeared to be working “on similar developments”....
...There are more Sims than people, with active subscribers exceeding the population by a factor of about 1.3....
...Professor Mark Sims, a space expert at the University of Leicester in the UK, said Moscow’s decision “could potentially hit all space programmes quite seriously”....
...The company that started the countdown towards this week’s developments may not ultimately benefit from the changes, however....
...The first stage of SAC’s hiring process was handled by the SAC “business development” department, which sought to build relationships with and recruit SAC PMs and SAC RAs....
...Also last week, a BP-led consortium fired the starting gun on a $28bn gas development in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, known as Shah Deniz 2....
...The scheme… will cap carbon dioxide emissions from 202 companies at 350 million tons for 2013, according to a statement on the website of the provincial Development and Reform Commission.”...
...(Financial Times) SAC’s Steinberg asked for ‘proprietary information’, court told: Michael Steinberg, a former portfolio manager with SAC Capital, asked his analyst to get “early, proprietary information...
...The development comes as SAC tries to reassure investors, who will be able on Thursday to redeem money from the fund for the first time since November....
...Cohen has received a subpoena to testify before a grand jury in the government’s insider trading investigation into his hedge fund, SAC Capital Advisors, a development that signals a newly aggressive phase...
...The pattern was highlighted again this week with the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s probe into CR Intrinsic, part of the hedge fund SAC Capital....
...says. 1.05pm The Atom platform codenamed Lexington is introduced, aimed at cheaper smartphones or it’s “the value smartphone for emerging markets” in Intel’s words. 1.09pm The platform includes dual-SIMs...
...Four Partners Advisory SIM, Lazard & Co and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton advised Internazionale....
...Such developments are – unsurprisingly – controversial....
...“The research and development requirements for basic mobile phones was not very high. That is not the case with smartphones,” he says. Their adaptability could prove key for Chinese manufacturers....
...Other contributors to the book say an excessive focus on saving manufacturing may even be harmful if it draws resources from more promising exits from the economic cul-de-sac....
...With the award of the Nobel for economics to Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims this week, the US once again took the lion’s share of the annual prizes....
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