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...The Canadian pharmaceutical and cannabis company Tilray has hired Andrew Pucher as its chief corporate development officer. Pucher was previously a managing director at Goldman Sachs....
...Bill Gates of Microsoft and Steve Jobs of Apple observed developments at Xerox Parc with great interest. Xerox still makes photocopiers....
...Ski buffs might consider a five-bedroom detached home on Winding Creek Road in Olympic Valley, near the Squaw Valley Resort, for sale with Sierra Sotheby’s International Realty for $3.99m....
...It highlighted production ramp-ups at Conoco’s Surmont project and Cenovus’s Foster Creek as two of the principal developments driving that production growth....
...Mr Nieuwoudt joins the €136bn Swiss private banking and asset management group from Silver Creek Capital, the US hedge fund....
...The move came hours after Hampton Creek announced a new $90m round of funding to fuel international expansion of its retail distribution and development of new products....
...It has delayed by years a new 80,000 b/d in situ project at Carmon Creek, near Peace river, Alberta....
...Nazneen Kanga has moved from Morgan Creek Capital Management to become a solutions strategist....
...And there’s the alert at Oyster Creek nuclear facility. If you want to keep track of the storm, there are useful links here....
...Mining companies are turning to the debt markets to fund operations and development projects, as volatile equity markets and caution on the part of lenders stem traditional sources of funding for the industry...
...Further down the creek, Dubai’s original celebrity chef, Gordon Ramsey, is pulling out from his restaurant at the Hilton Dubai Creek....
...Already this year, Southern Copper’s Tia Maria project and Bear Creek’s Santa Ana project have been scuttled by protests while Anglo American said recently in September that it would “pause” development...
...The $7bn project, known as Keystone XL and led by Calgary-based TransCanada Corp, has become the most potent rallying point for protests that have built up over the past decade against the development of...
...The stalking horse bid was submitted by a group of hedge funds: Monarch Alternative Capital, Owl Creek Asset Management, Stonehill Capital Management and Värde Partners....
...In Alabama, the Poarch Creek Indians work with local government on a variety of issues, including police protection, roads....
...The car windows are open as I drive through Healing Springs, no more than a handful of ramshackle farm buildings next to Osage Creek, named after the Indians who once hunted here....
...Actor Harrison Ford has a 700-acre ranch on Snake River, golfer Tiger Woods bought a property at Three Creek Ranch and outgoing US vice-president Dick Cheney and former World Bank president James Wolfensohn...
...In April, while still finding office space, it made its first announcement: the Khor Dubai cultural district, stretching 20km along the existing (and to be extended) creek, will include more than 10 museums...
...The aim, says Jeff Levine, a principal with the development team, is to make the building “stand out” among a glut of new condos....
...To get a better handle on its finances, the government has been seeking to institutionalise “Dubai Inc”....
...Frank Henze, iShare’s head of product development, explains that the ETF is designed to capture price rises that are being driven by two key trends....
...Otherwise, Mission Bay appears to tick most of the boxes for a grand-scale, mixed-use urban development....
...Last year, he moved out of his “rather lavish” five-bedroom creek-side house in Silicon Valley to return to India as chief operating officer of Yahoo’s research and development centre in Bangalore....
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