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...This is not just a recent phenomenon: Adam quotes Mark Jones, former director of London’s V&A, on Richard Wallace (1818-90), founder of the Wallace Collection, who “was an outsider, because of being illegitimate...
...“This is not going to be a V-shaped recovery, at best, this is going to be a U-shaped.”...
...One big event coming up: the FT Dealmakers Summit, a full-day virtual conference put on by FT Live and the Due Diligence team, on November 10....
...Prime minister Imran Khan announced a moratorium on further coal-fired power plants at the Climate Ambition Summit in December....
...On the last Sunday of April 2019, a sleek Gulfstream V jet belonging to Occidental Petroleum touched down at Omaha airport....
...A week after my visit to A-fun, I was in Shanghai for the ecommerce giant Alibaba’s Tmall Collections fashion show, live-streamed to 87m viewers....
...The hammer value of lot 18, the price before fees that a buyer will pay to Sotheby’s for its services, was $139m. The painting last sold in 2003 for just under $27m....
...The debate on how Britain's National Health Service should be financed shows no sign of letting up....
...the collection of the late Dutch publisher Jan Tholenaar....
...As with Snap, Facebook tried to buy Twitter then copied key elements of the service, from allowing public posting to trending hashtags....
...Either will let you make the most of cloud-based music services such as Spotify and Pandora....
...He reportedly outbid three kings for it, including Britain’s King George V – today it remains the only rare stamp not in the Queen’s collection....
...Universities pull together Oxford university has the heavier crew when the 159th Oxford v Cambridge BNY Mellon Boat Race is contested on the river Thames in London....
...And in late June, when the EU summit saw leaders agree a set of measures to deal with Europe’s spiralling debt crisis, hedge funds began to snap up the still-discounted “strip” of bonds issued by Greece...
...Leaders meeting in Brussels for the EU summit in the past two days had cause to celebrate as well as to worry. The EU has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize....
...internet start-up is aiming to shake up the rarefied world of fine art with a smartphone app that can recognise paintings and sculptures, a Facebook game to categorise artworks and an online recommendation service...
...“We’re not fans of slapping on a treatment and calling it a service,” says my stylist Hannah. “We wanted to work with something we believed in.”...
...I bought a V-neck Kali Roar dress by Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna that was crafted from a black-and-white psychedelic fabric with a metallic belt....
...Of course, even if they continue to be run largely as stand-alone services, Cisco’s collaboration tools will still amount to a collection of powerful, bandwidth-hungry businesses, which is what the company...
...The Bond series is one of the most profitable collections in MGM’s film catalogue which, despite the sale of older titles to Turner, remains the biggest library in Hollywood: films such as Roadhouse, When...
...Leaders’ Statement: The Pittsburgh Summit PREAMBLE 1....
...The next day, Gmail, Google’s e-mail service, experienced a two-hour outage in the middle of the European workday, disrupting productivity and calling into question an increasing reliance on web services...
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