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...Manchester United’s new chief executive is set to join from rivals Manchester City in the coming months....
...It also has a significant pool of Saudi investors, including Prince Alwaleed bin Talal’s Kingdom Holding Company, STC Ventures and Al Tayyar Group....
...Careem, which was founded by former McKinsey consultants in 2012, won a tender for the project ahead of four other competitors, including Uber....
...The political consequences of stagnant real incomes in the United States and Europe threaten to further weaken the international environment for Chinese growth.”...
...The “back end” of the network – the part where Netflix connects to Comcast et al – would be a tightly-regulated telecoms service....
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...Creativity, Inc – a finalist for FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year – explains the failures, the tensions and the ultimate accolades from Finding Nemo to Toy Story....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...a Beatle/friend of Madonna, Gwyneth, Cameron et al/mother of four – she is Just Like Everyone Else, this seems to be going to extremes....
...United States v Apple, Inc et al is more than a US Justice department antitrust action against publishers allegedly colluding on ebook prices....
...Mohammed al-Shaibani, chief executive of ICD, which controls government holdings such as Emirates Airlines, says ICD is “looking forward to participating in the recovery of the Dubai real estate market”....
...The case has shed new light on the cat-and-mouse game that plays out daily on Wall Street and in the City of London....
...Creative Artists Agency, the biggest player in town, is in an imposing Century City building widely referred to outside the company as “the Death Star”....
...The criminal complaints filed yesterday against Mr Rajaratnam and current and former executives of Bear Stearns, IBM, Intel and McKinsey include transcripts of phone conversations recorded from both cell...
...Gorman is a member of the Board of Directors of MSCI Inc., where he serves as Lead Director. He also is a trustee of the Columbia Business School and the Spence School in New York City. Mr....
...After working in a family-owned group of companies in Australia, he worked for McKinsey in Australia and joined Egon Zehnder in 1988....
...Meanwhile, Manchester City, flush with Arab oil money, set a new British record, paying a purported £47m to bring Carlos Tevez from Manchester United....
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...A shareholder derivative action in the Delaware Court of Chancery: Seymour v. Samuels, et al....
...The same drums can be heard rotating across the Arab states of the Gulf, as countries take advantage of an oil price well over $100 a barrel to build everything from roads to bridges and even whole new cities...
...The ancient castele of Fragnito is documented in the national archives of Benevento, the nearby city. It refers to Fragnito as dating back to the 11th century....
...Next week marks the beginning of US voting season, as Iowans go to the polls in the first state primary contest, but designer have been preparing for this moment for a long time....
...Joseph Andelin, Utah: How does the shareholder makeup (i.e., institutional, insiders, hedge funds, et al.) affect your estimate of a firm’s intrinsic value and consequently, your margin of safety?...
...He begins with the standard denial: “My investment in the United States is not really to influence public policy.”...
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