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...Dignified civic landmarks have already become temples of hedonism. Lutyens’ Midland Bank was one of the first to go....
...And finally As a child in New York, I grew up taking school field trips to the Frick Collection....
...A local tavern keeper reportedly helped staff by bathing their temples in vinegar....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. You can build it, but will they come?...
...This is not just a recent phenomenon: Adam quotes Mark Jones, former director of London’s V&A, on Richard Wallace (1818-90), founder of the Wallace Collection, who “was an outsider, because of being illegitimate...
...Google’s giant data centres are temples of the information age....
...For a municipal bond issuer in Florida, however, the emerging risks to tax collection are hurricanes and extreme heat days curtailing work....
...On the last Sunday of April 2019, a sleek Gulfstream V jet belonging to Occidental Petroleum touched down at Omaha airport....
...A week after my visit to A-fun, I was in Shanghai for the ecommerce giant Alibaba’s Tmall Collections fashion show, live-streamed to 87m viewers....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 25 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...“You need to wait a long time to get any service. So we started our facial recognition service for the fintech sector,” said Xie Yinan, spokesman for Face++....
...the collection of the late Dutch publisher Jan Tholenaar....
...Between them, the V&A and the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection composed the only map of the place that I had in my head....
...As with Snap, Facebook tried to buy Twitter then copied key elements of the service, from allowing public posting to trending hashtags....
...Either will let you make the most of cloud-based music services such as Spotify and Pandora....
...He reportedly outbid three kings for it, including Britain’s King George V – today it remains the only rare stamp not in the Queen’s collection....
...In a recent series of work, he shows walls of buildings in the centre of Lagos that have been filled with scrawled slogans advertising various services....
...internet start-up is aiming to shake up the rarefied world of fine art with a smartphone app that can recognise paintings and sculptures, a Facebook game to categorise artworks and an online recommendation service...
...Which suggests that despite the lip service, the industry doesn’t really see the whole High Holy Day thing as a problem — just a few kvetchers inside it....
...My prayers were not heard: like all Apple products, it is sleek and gorgeous, and in due course I shall go to one of its wondrous temples of consumption and grumpily buy one....
...“We’re not fans of slapping on a treatment and calling it a service,” says my stylist Hannah. “We wanted to work with something we believed in.”...
...David Manson is head of international cash management, in the global transaction services division of RBS which, like other large banks, offers “cash reporting services” that help collate cash balances for...
...temple prostitute), often bizarre (that of a sales manager turned naked sanyasi) and occasionally inspiring....
...Now 52, he has some grey about the temples and a less manic feel to him but the travails of the past few years have hardly ravaged his lightly tanned features....
...Malone, media historians will recall, helped create TeleCommunications Inc, the biggest US cable services company, only to sell it to AT&T and escape with the largesse of a lifetime’s worth of content and...
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