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...Unlike private equity, business school drones struggle to break into the industry....
...The second is that the industry as a consequence has long depended on auxiliary services — such as insurance, fuel surcharging and catching customers out on T&Cs — for profitability....
...A spaceport could be built at one of eight possible sites by 2018, there will be better regulation of drones and the insurance industry has welcomedthe possibility of driverless cars being a standard feature...
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...They aim to dissolve remaining inefficiencies in just about every consumer transaction, in the same way as Uber has revolutionised the taxi trade and Airbnb has challenged the hotel industry, throwing up...
...And here’s the I-don’t-care-about-watching-Ghana v Uruguay version (emphasis FT Alphaville’s): The Miller-Moore provision, which was included in the House bill last year, never made it into the Senate version...
...LLC; Carlyle Investment Management L.L.C.; Blackstone Capital Partners V L.P.; Centerbridge Capital Partners, L.P....
...“I think the bigger holders now of securitisations are insurance companies and pension funds.”...
...Naturally, this would be bad for the US car industry itself....
...“He could see where the insurance industry was going before anybody else.” But AIG’s development as a loose collection of companies unified only by the central figure of Mr Greenberg had drawbacks....
...ICICI’s managing director, K V Kamath, called the rumours “baseless and malicious”....
...Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc., USA Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Siemens AG, Germany Mustafa V....
...Home Depot, the home improvement retailer that sponsors the US national football team, is also backing Univision’s match coverage, along with McNeil’s Tylenol and Allstate Insurance....
...The economic crisis proved the trigger for a renewed burst of reforms under the Congress government of P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then finance minister, Manmohan Singh....
...V. Mr Buffett is sticking to his core competencies. VI. Concerns about retailers and the ailing consumer may be overblown, if Mr Buffett's bets are correct. VII....
...When investors buy a CDS instrument, they are taking out a form of insurance to protect themselves from the risk of corporate default....
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