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...It was during this time that, drawn to material that combined heartbreak and comedy, she discovered actors such as John Candy and Steve Martin....
...Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant (Little, Brown and Company) Merchant, who authored a study of the iPhone, The One Device, produces an entertaining analysis...
...If you’ve been unfortunate enough to have spent some time on LinkedIn in recent weeks you will have noticed a flurry of investment research posting from earnest hustle merchants....
...A question about pricing strategy can lead to a story about Steve Jobs’ first Tesla car, an anecdote from Mickey’s years on the board of Apple....
...Hot on his heels comes Macklowe with the 426 metre 432 Park Avenue, and then Steve Roth, the bruising head of Vornado Realty Trust, and Michael Stern, a wunderkind with a mysterious past....
...It is also the only UK merchant routinely to offer mixed cases en primeur.)...
...Remonda is said to have bought, at a knock-down price on the Paris stock exchange, shares in a merchant ship believed lost at sea. But the ship was not lost, merely delayed....
...One good read A bipartisan alliance wants to bring down credit card fees charged to merchants. A big deal, if it happens — but we’ve had this fight before....
...Master of Wine Steve Smith of Smith & Sheth swears they harvested some “really great” Chardonnay from the Quinn vineyard, for instance....
...The “increasing flurry” refers to aggregates maker CRH and plumbers’ merchant Ferguson....
...I love seeing people suddenly stop in their tracks on the pavement when they first notice the shop,” says Steve Dolfi, one of the four siblings who own and run À la Mère de Famille....
...In short, Boku’s technology helps merchants sell more....
...Hal Wilson, co-founder of Cambridge Wine Merchants in the UK, said: “We will see massive [price] increases on naturally made wines that are 14.5 per cent, 15 per cent....
...“This is confirmed by the fact that if I meet a merchant banker to discuss a bespoke ETN, I am treated like I am the wittiest fund manager in the UK and I get lunch at the fanciest restaurant....
...“The model can absolutely work as long as you have the right strategy and proposition,” said Steve O’Hear, senior vice-president of strategy at Zapp, a UK-based grocery app that has raised more than $300mn...
...“In this post-Brexit world where better regulation is a big sale, it would be hard to design a system any more complex,” said Steve Finlan, chief executive of the 170,000-member Wine Society, the world’s...
...I was recently reminded of Rayas’s totemic status when tasting a particularly delicious southern California Grenache courtesy of London wine merchants Lea & Sandeman....
...The group toured the family archive and stood by the town’s life-size statues of Tüötten, the local name for itinerant Catholic cloth merchants....
...“When we filed we thought that it would be worth it, but costs built on costs — the contango, the commission merchants, added costs to work through a Cayman subsidiary — so that we ultimately decided it...
...“I have learned from many, but the most powerful lessons I learned came from working at Apple with Steve Jobs,” he said last year....
...PLL chief executive Michael Rabil said: “They partner with their portfolio companies and sellers in a deeper [and] more dedicated way than I’ve seen [with] other merchant bankers.”...
...Steve Denton has finished his holiday shopping....
...In some respects, Elizabeth Holmes resembled a typical Silicon Valley entrepreneur: she hyped up a secretive product, gave Ted talks and adopted the signature Steve Jobs turtleneck....
...Mele remembers when Margaret Thatcher came to visit, and his parents hosted a cocktail party for her before they went out on Steve Forbes’ boat, the Highlander....
...“The only thing is that bank transfers will have fewer zeros,” said Henry Andrade, a fruit and vegetable merchant from the western state of Táchira on the border with Colombia....
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