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...USA Inc — in other words offering a dire signal on the outlook”....
...FT subscribers can click here to receive tech news daily by email in the #techFT newsletter Let's all gather around the photocopier/printer and chat about whether Xerox could succeed in a bid for HP Inc...
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...The shake-up was just the latest result of Wall Street tumult that has left some investors unwinding the big bets they made on tech earlier this year....
...“The future quants” on Wall Street for instance will “map financial problems to similar problems in physics and then map them back”, he says....
...(FT) In the news Spotify bucks the tech sell-off Spotify was able to beat the bearish mood for technology stocks on Wall Street by making a smooth trading debut, ending the day with a valuation of $26.5bn...
...The company’s executives credit the turnround to its high-tech cable box called the X1 — a robot-esque TV guide that Comcast compares to Amazon’s digital assistant, Alexa....
...As with Snap, Facebook tried to buy Twitter then copied key elements of the service, from allowing public posting to trending hashtags....
...Tracking stocks owe their origins to General Motors’ acquisition of the EDS IT services business from Ross Perot in 1984....
...Amazonfresh v Ocado Brooke Masters has been comparing Amazon’s Fresh grocery delivery service, launched in the UK this week, with her regular home deliveries from Ocado. Fresh had one key flaw....
...V&A’s robot-made web London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, has launched a season of exhibitions and events focused on the “unsung role” of engineering in society....
...Official guidance is required on whether Gareth Bale et al were expressing confidence in the UK’s future as a free trader, or were just better at kicking a ball around....
...However, even on the sedate streets of Mountain View, Google’s technology does not work flawlessly....
...In another sign of the increasing speed with which new tech takes flight, several stands at Hamburg feature virtual-reality goggles....
...— Recent research by Gorton et . al about the form and role of banks as maturity transformers and creators of “private money” is very relevant to this discussion....
...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....
...And although people say they like new things, often what they want is merely for existing things to work better. Innovations must be bought repeatedly if they are to succeed commercially....
...Defence lawyers hinge their argument on a leading 1983 Supreme Court decision called Dirks v. SEC....
...The 31-year-old’s company, which aggregates courier services, is the latest UK start-up to emerge from Silicon Roundabout, the cluster of tech and digital media businesses based in and around London’s Old...
...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...
...Twilight, Romney v Obama....
...United States v Apple, Inc et al is more than a US Justice department antitrust action against publishers allegedly colluding on ebook prices....
...London boasts the bars round Old Street’s Silicon Roundabout while Berlin has the St Oberholz café, but in Stockholm the social hub for the high-tech start-up scene is a quarterly poker game....
...“Going on the street with a flag is not going to get you any media attention. It won’t help any more in a digital world,” Gonlag reasoned. “We need to do other things....
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