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...Bank of America has named Anthony Knox as country executive for South Africa, according to a memo....
...US computer company began trialling its version of the technology with a small number of companies late last year....
...One of his touchstones for anti-competitive behaviour is the late 1990s US v Microsoft case, in which the company was found guilty of using its operating system monopoly to stifle competitors like Netscape...
...Subtlety and nuance about complex issues are the casualties....
...of the US intellectual property system”....
...… This month, 116 founders of robotics and AI companies signed a petition calling for the outright banning of killer robots — known as lethal autonomous weapons systems, or Laws....
...Chubb will give Ace a bigger footprint in the US, where it is a leading middle-market underwriter for commercial property and casualty insurance....
...The Florida-based company, which also owns a small portfolio of retail property, has hired bankers and is expecting to receive initial bids in the next few weeks, according to people familiar with the matter...
...Hancock, head of AIG’s property/casualty division since 2011, was seen as a front-runner for the top job, but the move came sooner than many had expected.”...
...Nanhao Group is, in many ways, an ordinary technology company. Its staff make online scoring systems, exam-mark scanners and other educational hardware and software....
...Trulia acquired the startup Movity in December and this week showed off how its integration of open data, such as crime statistics on neighbourhoods, would be added to its service....
...Some parts of the economy – property prices in first-tier cities, for example – are a bit frothy, but the idea of a generalised bubble is folly....
...But its shares dropped 9.7 per cent to $35.48 after sales declines at its property-casualty operations, which include coverage of commercial buildings, corporate boards and aircraft, and life insurance divisions...
...Over the last year, we understand that a number of AIG’s 100,000+ employees have left A.I.G. to join the company’s direct competitors in the global property and casualty and life insurance businesses....
...Citigroup was formed in 1998 from the merger of Travelers Group and Citicorp. In 2002, Citigroup gave up control of Travelers Property Casualty through a share listing and subsequent spin-off....
...The chances of the average homeowner not getting an insurance claim paid if AIG’s holding company had been allowed to go under were slim, since its local property and casualty operations are sturdy and well-run...
...Conversely, even guaranteed access of a property owner to the public highway does not, and should not, allow all highway travelers even limited access to adjacent private property....
...Lahde’s first fund, US Residential Real Estate Hedge V Class A, soared 712.8 per cent in the year to the end of October, before this month’s sell-off pushed it past the 1,000 per cent mark....
...No financial services sector is more dependent on the vagaries of climate and weather – and thus more vulnerable to the risks posed by insufficient environmental information – than property and casualty...
...Andrew Cuomo of New York state made headlines this spring with a series of subpoenas to property appraisal companies and has said publicly that he is probing the entire industry....
...There are a lot of concerns about whether the American educational system is turning out enough people who have enough of a science background. Is that a concern that you share?...
...Companies paying zero tax would find it hard to complain about the failing educational system, poor transport and infrastructure, he said....
...companies....
...Chubb, the property and casualty insurer, rose 1.1 per cent to $76.63, while shares in the St Paul Travelers Companies, another property and casualty group, rose 1.4 per cent to $37.33....
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