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...How far do we crave flesh-and-blood contact – or paper and ink? The recent experience of H&R Block, a gigantic American tax adviser, is striking in this respect....
...The most eye-catching announcement, although the technology is hardly new, was the MatePad Paper....
...Changing customer needs for the modern office have added to the pressure. The rise of email has reduced demand for paper and printer ink, for instance....
...Not to mention the massive shift to work-from-home set-ups, which has reduced demand for paper, printer ink and other dusty artefacts of fluorescently-lit corporate digs. It’s still early stages....
...These vehicles were all the rage in the early aughts — Warburg Pincus and TPG bought the US department store chain Neiman Marcus in 2005 financed with PIK debt (what a story that would become), the same...
...And in the last two, three years, I've probably spent $10, $11 mill buying shoes. Now keep in mind, I started with $40....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...Stores sell tail lights and hub caps....
...There is a mystery at PetSmart, the private-equity-backed pet store with $8.2bn of debt, all of which is trading below 80 cents on the dollar....
...In Ink, the actor Bertie Carvel plays Mr Murdoch as an impatient newcomer who claims, “I want to disrupt this [Fleet] street”....
...Here’s how one of Italy’s main papers depicted the episode: Rome was never a free-market bastion, but under the last crop of centre-left governments, it has taken a surprising turn in favour of both open...
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...Many of these failed, miring the studios in even more red ink....
...Tablets and smartphones may have cut bulk orders of printer ink and paper, and offered consumers alternatives to pad, pen and pencil....
...Nokia was once a paper mill. RadioShack could have started selling fruit baskets or turned its stores into Zumba studios....
...The company said North American commercial sales climbed just 1 per cent last quarter as demand for ink, toner and paper all fell....
...their way out of the laboratory into run-of-the-mill reality....
...Backstage at the recent Moschino Cheap & Chic show, she had some interesting observations: had I noticed that make-up artists use their fingers for the most part, whereas in stores they use brushes?...
...But the 120e will print on both sides of the paper and is the quietest model made by HP....
...So although the rumour mill has long dubbed Apple’s smaller tablet the “iPad Mini”, perhaps we might a revival of the iBook brand in hardware next week....
...the store....
...You may wish to explore general management programmes v specialising....
...The problem is that, compared to the iPad or the bright LCD screen of the Nook Color eReader, E Ink’s colour screens – and even those of Qualcomm with its Mirasol technology - lack the same vibrancy....
...Lavendon rejects second TVH approach - Bloomberg inks deal for City headquarters - Walter Energy seals C$3.3 billion Western deal - Continent in grip of tabloid panic after freeze -...
...The real change, however, is in the way British people now behave. I have been trying to resolve my internal Mac v PC battle....
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