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...Pushing for higher prices, however, also increases the danger that some customers will consider abandoning Arm altogether and switching to Risc-V, a rival open-source technology, this person said....
...Rene Haas, Arm’s chief executive, acknowledged that Risc-V is a “very real threat to our business” in an interview with the FT earlier this year....
...they might buy from the Sears Roebuck catalogue....
...Then, earning power was recognised as a sensible basis for public share ownership and companies such as Sears Roebuck became market leaders....
...It all started with Sears. At the end of the 19th century, Chicago-based Sears, Roebuck & Co’s catalogue was a monster, a doorstop manifesto of capitalism geared to homesteaders and smallholders....
...Several industry experts argue, however, that Risc-V will now attract a wave of investment from companies seeking an alternative to Nvidia....
...Twenty-five years ago, you might have thought a portfolio containing shares in General Electric and General Motors, ICI, Marks and Spencer, Barclays Bank and Sears Roebuck represented a low-risk, conservative...
...“[For] somebody that is of my generation, Sears Roebuck was a big deal,” he told reporters on Monday, discussing the “sad” news that the retailer had filed for bankruptcy protection....
...Even more astutely, Hill says: “You can very readily see where [the US department store chain] Sears, Roebuck and Company’s business would go if such a plan was perfected.”...
...Richard Sears, one of the founders of Sears Roebuck, put it well: “Honesty is the best policy. I know, I’ve tried it both ways.”...
...Indeed, at the beginning of the last century, second generation scions of the founding German-Jewish families prospered through partnering on deals, such as taking retailer Sears Roebuck public....
...Smart Reads Retail shenanigans Eddie Lampert, once Steven Mnuchin’s roommate, explains his investment in Kmart/Sears and just what happened that time he was kidnapped....
...Arguably the “killer application” of the railroads, the mail order catalog of Sears-Roebuck, didn't arrive until the end of the century, as economist Brad DeLong has argued....
...(FT) HK v SH The fight to attract IPOs used to play out between Hong Kong and Singapore but now the focus has moved northward....
...Richard Sears started out in 1886 as a watch seller in Minneapolis before teaming up in Chicago with Alvah Roebuck to form one of America’s first mail order catalogue businesses, a venture that placed the...
...michael.skapinker@ft.com Letter in response to this column: A pat not a slap for the PR world over Bell Pottinger / From Robin V Sears, principal, Earnscliffe Strategy Group...
...The tower built by Sears Roebuck in 1970 was controversially renamed in 2009 when insurer Willis rented three storeys of space and paid for the naming rights....
...From Sears, Roebuck and Company to Union Pacific, the business world is littered with titans that were ground under by the march of time. The same will happen to the owners of artificial intelligence....
...GE was founded in 1892 and Sears Roebuck in 1893, at a time when the continent was altered by the telegraph and electricity....
...Instead, it was the lower end of the market – with the kit houses of Sears, Roebuck and Company in the US, and the emergency prefab housing created in postwar Britain during the 1940s – that prevailed, establishing...
...“It has been suggested to us that regulators and parliamentarians would like to have that 1:1 ratio of salary to bonus written into other pieces of legislation,” says Guy Sears, director of institutional...
...Another shopper was so incensed by ill-fitting bras she wrote to the company....
...The company is growing at a startling rate and has a very strong focus on business to business offerings which was a great learning experience....
...At the end I asked him what he thought he should do with his business and he said, ‘I guess I should sell it’.” Soon after, Sears Roebuck & Co paid $1.9bn in cash for it, a 22 per cent premium....
...Default protection for Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp, a unit that has the most liquidly traded credit default swaps contract in the Sears Holdings group, rose to a record on Thursday....
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