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...Baidu, without providing specifics, said details that the FT put to the company about Ma included “many errors of fact”....
...Prof Urtasun was a co-founder of the Vector Institute, which also counts Geoff Hinton, known as the “godfather” of neural networks, among its top advisers....
...The 58-year-old rose through the ranks at Southwestern Bell Telephone in his native Oklahoma after joining in 1982, and was chief operating officer when the regional telecoms company, then called SBC, launched...
...Geoff Hinton, Vector’s chief scientific adviser, is one of the world’s leading AI experts and known as the “godfather” of neural networks....
...Among top researchers drawn to Google are Geoff Hinton, a British-born scientist who is regarded as one of the pioneers of deep learning; the founders of DeepMind, the UK-based deep learning company that...
...Laku Chidambaram of the University of Oklahoma, who has been studying team working for more than 25 years, says a group of up to five people, using even basic telephone conferencing (he is sceptical about...
...He despises red tape and the lack of it at his companies gives executives the opportunity to stretch, say insiders....
...Ed Razek, chief marketing officer of L Brands, the parent company of Victoria’s Secret, and executive producer of the show said: “It reaches 500m people in 192 countries [and] is the most watched fashion...
...He shaped the company’s culture in a series of memos – later collected in a book featuring a foreword by Warren Buffett – that combined practical advice on answering telephones and cutting costs with business...
...Outsiders such as the American lawyer Joel Klein have become influential voices on News Corp’s board; loyal executives such as Les Hinton and Tom Mockridge have left the company....
...Maureen Hinton, group research director at retail consultants Conlumino agrees that Primark stands a good chance of being one of the winners....
...John Walden, managing director of Argos, indicated that the tie-up could be a prelude to other deals....
...Bunge has stopped crushing soyabeans at its Emporia, Kansas, processing plant until the autumn harvest, the company says. Meanwhile, farmers are either hoarding grain or have none to sell....
..., including the majority verdict that Mr Murdoch was not fit to run a major international company....
...company boasted growth every month....
...Mr Fenwick fills a position that has been empty since July when his predecessor, Les Hinton, stepped down in the midst of the phone hacking scandal at News Corp’s UK newspaper arm, which he had run for 12...
...Media companies lobbied the government against efforts to toughen the law on theft of private information such as health and phone records, the Leveson inquiry heard on Friday, amid fresh allegations of...
...Rupert Murdoch appointed Joel Klein, head of his new education business, to the office of the chairman a year ago, but has since lost two other close counsellors, with the resignations of Les Hinton as chief...
...“High volumes and low prices are a very difficult [combination] in the current climate,” says Maureen Hinton, practice leader at Verdict, the retail research group....
...News Corp will conduct an external and internal search for a new chief executive of its Dow Jones financial news business, following Friday’s resignation of Les Hinton, who had run the publisher of the Wall...
...The departure of Mr Hartigan, a thorn in the side of the Labor-led government, represents the latest exit of a senior News Corp newspaper executive after the resignations of Les Hinton as chief executive...
...Richard Hinton of Searchflow, the property search firm, warned that uninsured properties not only put their owners in breach of mortgage contracts, but also reduce in value and desirability....
...Dow Jones has yet to appoint a permanent chief executive after the departure of Les Hinton in July, and Time Warner turned to Laura Lang, a digital marketing specialist from Digitas, to run its Time Inc...
...The former head of News International, the News of the World’s parent company, said he could not recall full details, but was sure his evidence had been accurate to the best of his knowledge....
...“Les [Hinton] will be sacrificed to save James and Rebekah,” one person familiar with the company said....
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