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...Another deal also facing heavy scrutiny is software group Adobe’s $20bn move to acquire cloud-based design company Figma on the grounds that consolidation could harm markets....
...Are people at home actually working at all on Fridays or have we quietly moved into a four-day week by stealth? And if Fridays have slipped away, are Mondays next?...
...In a recent highly critical book about the company by three Dutch investigative journalists, called The Machine, the group’s early success is attributed to secret software known as the “Experiment Tool”,...
...Larry Ellison’s ongoing, stealth takeover of Oracle has turned into one of the software industry’s most intriguing, though least-noticed, sagas....
...In slightly more understandably human, that means it maintains a software stack for building “Web 3” apps....
...Scaringe also raised $160mn from Global Oryx Company, a subsidiary of Abdul Latif Jameel (ALJ), a large, diversified Saudi holding company....
...The European Central Bank has announced plans to buy an additional €750bn in bonds after holding an emergency call of its rate-setting committee on Wednesday night in response to the worsening economic and...
...London’s contribution to the company is hidden by the fact that revenue is funnelled to a holding company in the Netherlands — Uber International BV....
...It's not as if squeezes from stealth takeovers using options are an everyday occurrence....
...The advent of ship tracking software, satellite data on crop conditions and other services has also eroded the value of traders’ inside knowledge of commodity flows....
...The stealth bomber, he says, was kept a secret for 10 years before it was first used....
...The healthcare enterprise software company, which completed an initial public offering last March that valued it at more than $3.4bn, said 2015 sales were likely to range between $74m-$77m, as much as 9...
...Sears Holding Corporation, K-Mart’s parent company, said on Friday that the security breach probably started in early September but it had not yet discovered how many customers may have been affected....
...John Bates, chief technology officer of Progress Software, which provides software to algorithms, said he anticipated more moves like those by Deutsche Borse and Borsa Italiana, which would in turn spark...
...Optiver, the regulator alleged, reaped $1m in illicit profits by using a software program called the “Hammer” to send out rapid-fire electronic orders and “bully the market” by influencing official day-end...
...Netswipe involves holding up a credit card to a camera, where its details and authenticity are recognised by Jumio’s software....
...Holding back the pan-European index were the region’s banks after earnings misses from Britain’s Barclays and Sweden’s Handelsbanken ....
...Analysts at Citigroup said they preferred other software companies....
...Since then, Mr Monk has extended his interests into the computer software market while planning a return to the broker scene....
...Jesper Alfredsson, vice-president of product management at Orc Software, a trading technology company, says: “It’s a high-risk business depending on what type of HFT you are doing....
...“The military business sector is a black box” says Tamer Maher, managing director of Bi Technologies, a Cairo-based software company....
...But almost by stealth it has made a significant inroad into a far more lucrative terrain – the US....
...Before that, from 2006-2008 he covered enterprise software companies at Wedbush....
...Other US private equity groups absent from the list include Hellman & Friedman – which bought Iris, the UK software group with more than 1,000 staff, for £500m last year – and JC Flowers, which has been...
...There is currently a minimum holding period of 3 years. There is also a limited secondary market in VCTs....
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