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...For Niel, the rejection of his bid is only the latest episode in a game of cat and mouse that he has played with Vodafone in Italy....
...Get to know the man who left the treble winners for a fallen giant of the game in the FT’s exclusive interview....
...The Skin in the Game mailbox is rammed. Last week I asked readers if there were any commercial property funds they liked with exposure to the crappier end of the office market....
...In a sign of serious intent, Fink sent his main lieutenant Rob Kapito — another Credit Suisse First Boston veteran — to see if there was a deal to be done....
...Boston Consulting Group, one of the world’s largest corporate advisers, has sued the video game retailer and meme-stock archetype GameStop over what it called $30mn in unpaid bills....
...It began 2022 with the world’s largest-ever tech deal, agreeing to pay $75bn for video game developer Activision Blizzard in a bold step into the metaverse....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 7 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca led the investment group behind the deal, which values the team at about €500mn, Reuters reported....
...Private equity firm RedBird Capital, together with Nike, Epic Games and the owners of the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool FC, are investing in basketball star LeBron James’s SpringHill Company at a valuation...
...Doreen Ford spent 10 years working in retail stores in the Boston area and hated it....
...But the balding former bond trader was not there to watch a game of baseball....
...The stark evidence of inequality has sparked a blame game....
...Gaming industry veteran and former Facebook executive Mike Verdu has joined Netflix as vice-president of game development....
...When I was growing up in Ronald Reagan’s America, the small proxy wars that the US fought with the Soviet Union were a regular feature of the copies of the Boston Globe I delivered every morning....
...To a lot of pharmaceutical companies, used to footing bills for high-risk investment in research, development and manufacturing, billions of dollars of government money was a game changer, he said....
...Pfizer — whose vaccine has proved 95 per cent effective — alleging that it had delayed the release of its positive data until after his defeat in the November 3 presidential election as part of a “corrupt game...
...The law firm Orrick added Shana Solomon as a partner in Boston and Faraaz Samadi as a partner in London....
...He is no chef, but he is game....
...Most are affiliates of major TV networks such as Fox, where the most-watched game of the US sporting calendar is set to be broadcast on Sunday....
...It’s far from game over. The LSE and Refinitiv said they were still hopeful of getting the transaction approved by the end of the year. Who will run the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund?...
...What a fun multiplayer online war game. Is there anything that could go wrong? Yes. If you are a public investor, your money is getting a commission to be a hero — probably a dead one in the end....
...Active managers face epochal challenges to raise their game,” said Mr Rajan....
...A Random Walk Down Wall Street, published in 1973, popularised the message that short run changes in stock prices are unpredictable and that trying to beat the market is a fool’s game....
...A few years ago, I heard Travis Kalanick, the founder and former chief executive of ride-sharing company Uber, speak to a group of Boston business leaders....
...It’s a zero-sum game that you’re never going to win.”...
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