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...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...court cases Name: Donald J Trump for President, Inc et al v....
...In letters last week, the state’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) requested information about loans and other financial arrangements between the Kushners and Deutsche Bank, Signature Bank and New...
...The Uber board includes David Bonderman of TPG, Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post, Bill Gurley of Benchmark and Yasir Al Rumayyan of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund....
...al Jazeera’s BeIn Sports....
..., but the applications and services that run on top of them....
..., was not one of the big studios, but the streaming service Amazon....
...the straightforward and honest Midwest is the least hospitable to hucksters: Sorting more systematically, Egan et al find the biggest demographic predictor of broker misconduct at the county level is the...
...It looks more like the campus of a California tech company, such as Pixar or Google, than the outskirts of an industrial estate in Isleworth.”...
...Yes, that does mean the tax pot shrinks a bit so services are squeezed and the burden of funding public services falls on ordinary workers — but that is only fair since they do not have any better ideas...
...These changes — the open system of trade, information flows and the spread of technology — occurred on the terms, and in the image of, the “west”....
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...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...
...Facebook et al may not need the intellectual capital, but they sure needed their cash....
...The “back end” of the network – the part where Netflix connects to Comcast et al – would be a tightly-regulated telecoms service....
...tells the story of the biggest leak of classified information in US history....
...Her 2011 film, Sex, Death and the Gods, looked at the lives of the devadasi, the women who, in Hinduism, are “dedicated” for life to the service of a temple or deity....
...The group’s explanation is that the deals have been struck between the bankers and a Georgia-registered banking subsidiary. Mr Gilauri et al have normal contracts with the UK-based holding company....
...Source: EIA Maugeri acknowledges this fact, noting, “Over this decade, another problem affecting the production of all shale/tight oil plays in the United States will be the inevitable rising costs of services...
...The California State Teachers’ Retirement System has said it will oppose the re-election of the entire board, and Hermes of the UK has also recommended a vote against some directors, including the Murdoch...
...“Investors in Chinese internet stocks like Sina, Youku, Sohu, Tencent, Alibaba et al should be wondering if Baidu is the only target of this CCTV campaign, or if other firms are next,” said Bill Bishop,...
...The FT’s broadsheet pages defeat almost every scanner and special, oversized cuttings books are used to preserve favourite scoops....
...This week in California, Microsoft showed off a test version of Windows that has been designed with touch-sensitive screens in mind....
...Multiple members of the US Congress fired off letters to Apple this week about reports that iPhones not only store data about their owners whereabouts but leave unencrypted copies of the information on users...
...Meanwhile the company can afford to experiment and disrupt freely, because it is largely in charge of providing access to information....
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