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...Co-founder and chief executive Jack O’Meara said Ochre Bio found it cheaper to hire in Taiwan but the UK’s tax credit scheme had meant creating research jobs in the country was still competitive....
...Last year, Zanini de Zanine Caldas, the Rio-based furniture designer, showed The Sound of Wood at R & Company in New York, a collection of work marking 20 years of his studio....
...Google Trends As well as the seasonal overtones (ice, angel, Turkey etc), there was a further theme to these answers, which could have made it a bit easier. . . the first letters of each answer spell out C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S...
...According to MMO Population tracker, it has c 18.7m subscribers and 353k daily active players which ranks number 14 of 140 tracked MMOs....
...Make-up, Dick Page at Statement Artists using YSL beauty (Lila and Stella only) and Kay Montano at C/O Management using Chanel Les Beiges and Chanel Hydra Beauty....
...The UK has also announced a semiconductor partnership with Japan involving R&D co-operation and skills exchange as part of a broader economic accord....
...At a dinner soon after, Jones impishly starts provoking Don by humming Wynette’s recent hit song “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”....
...It has a $40bn backlog of orders to prove demand is still resilient and plans to invest more than €4bn in R&D by 2025 to sustain its pace of innovation....
...Apple itself estimates that since 2008 it has trained at least 23.6mn workers on their rights — more people than the total population of Taiwan....
...In 2006, the maison bought Villa Empain in Brussels, restoring the house and turning it into a Centre of Art and Dialogue between eastern and western cultures. boghossianjewels.com C is for Brunello CucinelliThe...
...Internally, the details are just as elegant: “We developed the lighting with Claude R Engle, who has worked on spaces for car collectors in America as well as for the Reichstag, British Museum and McLaren...
...C Coaching After Wimbledon, the men’s tour will trial allowing coaching during matches....
...The moment of truth over Taiwan is getting closer Would the US go to war over Taiwan? That question has seemed fairly abstract for decades....
...Michael O’Dwyer in London 18....
...Morten O. Ravn: Hopefully not....
...Middlesbrough; Heather Morrey, Sussex Polymath 1,037: Michael Crapper, Whitchurch Crossword 16,254: Richard Heaton, London; Hector Langfeldt, Birmingham; Saira Kamaly, London Polymath 1,036: Eamonn O’...
...– Why women are making the C-suite but not CEO. (WSJ, $) – “What if I’m being judgy about the next Patti Smith, the next Frank O’Hara? Or some kid who’s simply the next me?”...
...players, like Taiwan’s TSMC, find it difficult to squeeze out good margins....
...Progress has been made on the group’s strategic review, initiated post the appointment of CEO O’Lionaird....
...GILD’s c$15bn cost base vs $11bn core op.income, of which c$5bn lies in R&D/SG&A), but also require very significant job cuts at a time of global economic hardship....
...Here’s UBS: [T]he company expects “further good progress in the year”, signalling earnings growth (consensus EBITA at c£680m, up 8% y-o-y)....
...Consolidation isn’t some silver bullet either, Citi says, because a large minority of the airlines aren’t worth operating in the first place: [O]f the c.$7bn of net profit that the Europeans made in 2019...
...R is for robbed — the eventual status of every crypto-exchange....
...Loony gains flight — The Canadian dollar is strengthening on hopes of US rate cuts and rising oil prices, with the currency having appreciated towards C$1.31 from C$1.34 in the past couple of weeks....
...Heavy R&D spend led to a pre-tax loss of £1.7m (£2.3m) but it had plenty of cash (£5.8m) after a £6m fundraising, £3.5m in equity and a £2.5m convertible loan....
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