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...Last week, the company said it would double its spending on its theme parks to $60bn over the next decade....
...Woven through all this, according to a growing body of regulators, are the sort of tactics that IT companies have long used to “lock in” their customers....
...The company has denied wrongdoing, arguing it is facing tough competition and that its market share is the result of the strength of its product....
...As a result, even if, say, a Citadel or Millennium has God-level risk management skills and Satan-level capital lock-ups, it’s easy to envisage a scenario where a smaller, less adept multi-manager hedge...
...However, there was no lock-up on agents included in the deal, one of the people said, though most have non-compete clauses in their contracts....
...I shouldn’t even count the front door because it was too easy; pin and tumbler Schlage thing, an embarrassment....
...The founders and launch partners are currently restricted from trading ApeCoin, with lock-ups unwinding in batches over the next 36 months....
...“Clouds love lock-in, they force people into massive multi-year commitments,” said Jonathan Frankle, co-founder of MosaicML, an AI company that is trying to commoditise the cloud for its corporate clients...
...But for many traders the prospect of joining one of the large multi-manager firms, which employ tens or even hundreds of different trading teams and which often lock up investor money for years, is far more...
...According to analysts, the cloud companies are also offering deals to lock in customers for longer....
...Millennium’s strong returns have meant that it has been able to get clients to commit to longer lock-ups for their cash, giving the firm a longer-term and more stable asset base....
...By far the most important is The Worldwide Production Services LLC (WWPS), a Toronto-based film company that holds digital distribution rights to the ILBE-produced Puffins and Arctic Friends series....
...He also extended a $30mn loan to a company registered in the name of Epstein’s private pilot. The company, Plan D LLC, owned a Gulfstream jet....
...to the end of the company life of SVF2 LLC....
...In 2021, 25 per cent of IPOs — 91 in all — included early lock-up period releases, according to Renaissance Capital. 4....
...They can also be expedient: sellers sometimes look to quickly lock in gains and show strong returns as they raise their next fund, notes one private equity firm executive....
...But forcing companies to split themselves up — the most radical solution under discussion — is probably politically unfeasible. An easier win would be to loosen their lock on customers....
...The typical HF vehicle has much shorter duration and quarterly lock-up periods....
...“We’ve sat next to one another on countless flights, squished next to one another on drives to meetings, and huddled together in conference rooms as we worked to lock down crucial deals.”...
...Chinese media outlet LatePost first reported the extension of the lock-up period for Didi employees. Additional reporting by Eli Meixler in Hong Kong...
...They’ve built their platform lock-in which makes it extremely hard for any company to compete, even if they were able to compete on fair terms. But then they don’t let them compete on fair terms....
...Bankers say finance chiefs are eager to lock in low borrowing costs before central banks begin raising short-term interest rates....
One of the industry’s best-performing firms is seeking to lock in investors’ money for longer
...Paytm slumps againPaytm shares fell more than 12 per cent on Wednesday after the anchor investor lock-in period ended, drawing more scrutiny to the fintech company....
...The move helped Google lock in fees from the game but contradicted the idea of Android being an “open” platform, according to the legal filing from Epic, which makes Fortnite....
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