Hints and tips:
...Lily Tomlin used to do a character on the TV show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, an AT&T telephone operator who’d do commercials for the Bell system. Each one would end with her saying: “We don’t care....
...So I was really raised by my stepfather, Bob, who started a business in the fourth market before computers ever existed where he and his business partner started a company with a card table and telephone...
...Business reimagined The judges also highly commended Grow the Pie, a book by Alex Edmans, professor of finance at London Business School, making the commercial case for companies to deliver purpose as well...
...As our telephone call draws to a close, DePasquale asks if I would mind if he prayed for me. Not at all, I respond, assuming he means later on, privately....
...Expecting these companies to incorporate privacy by design makes about as much sense as expecting the beef industry to protect the lives of the cattle they slaughter, he writes....
...“Allowing Huawei to build the UK’s 5G networks today is like allowing the KGB to build its telephone network during the cold war,” said Tom Cotton, a Republican senator from Arkansas....
...Scott Adams, who went on to create Dilbert, used to prepare budget spreadsheets for a telephone company. “About 60 per cent of my job at Pacific Bell involved trying to look busy,” he recalled....
...The 58-year-old rose through the ranks at Southwestern Bell Telephone in his native Oklahoma after joining in 1982, and was chief operating officer when the regional telecoms company, then called SBC, launched...
...Our assembled cast from the worlds of politics, art, literature and business share their thoughts on what makes the perfect getaway. Martha Stewart Entrepreneur How are you spending the summer?...
...As Bell sees it, the traditional news business is exploring more imaginative ways of telling stories and reinventing business models for the digital age, even if many of them remain fragile....
...But of course this misses the point that almost everyone driving private-hire vehicles across the UK is self-employed, whether they are doing business via an app or something as neolithic as a telephone....
...For many people, the trading floor is virtually synonymous with Wall Street; that’s where the pageantry of listing-day ceremonies takes place, when newly minted public companies ring the opening bell....
...doing for targeted attacks on wealthy people....
..., broadband, fixed-line telephone and wireless....
...Several thought it would be a precursor to him selling some of his stake in the company, as Mr Lansdown has done....
...A telephone call from Arizona requested that an elliptical dome in a vestibule should accurately depict native southwestern flora....
...“We have nothing against telephone directories – in fact, we love them – but we are doing so much more. Innovation is in the DNA of this crazy place,” he says....
...A business consultant says the Guards’ companies compensate for their lack of expertise by hiring European advisers from countries such as the Netherlands, Britain and Italy....
...… Doing business runs in the Perelman family....
...I felt unexpectedly comfortable doing it.”...
...And the organisations that might once have filled the gap – the innovative old research groups such as Bell Labs, created by AT&T – have atrophied as heightened competition wrecked once-comfortable monopolies...
...One of the answers has to do with Telmex, the fixed-line telephone company in which Mr Slim bought a controlling stake from the Mexican government in 1990 together with France Telecom and Southwestern Bell...
...Let me make a suggestion: Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone greeting, “ahoy”. brian.groom@ft.com...
...Brought up on a farm in Arkansas, he discovered as a child a love for calculating baseball percentages in his head. He never graduated....
...Trained as a telecoms engineer and originally from northern Sudan, Mr Ibrahim has dedicated a part of the fortune he made selling his mobile telephone company, Celtel,towards improving governance in Africa...
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