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...Lyft has hired the IPO adviser Class V, which was founded by Lise Buyer, one of the key architects of Google’s 2004 Dutch auction. But Uber will not be far behind....
...We aren’t going to let them use it.” ————————————————– News: Amazon agrees to buy Whole Foods for $13.7bn Lex: Grain of truth Video Lex on Whole Foods takeover FT Alphaville: Whole Foods v the activists...
...The online retailer has been running its own grocery delivery programme, AmazonFresh, since 2007 and has been experimenting with grocery pick-up kiosks in Seattle....
...Round leads to the creation of the World Trade Organisation 5 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement comes into force 6 1999 Anti-globalisation protests break out at the WTO’s ministerial meeting in Seattle...
...To take a recent example, ticket sales for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dropped by an astonishing 68.4 per cent on its second weekend, as comic-book fans returned to their dens....
...“There’s unlikely to be the big titan v titan litigation that we saw in the smartphone wars.”...
...At present, Amazon operates a single bookstore in its home city, Seattle....
...This summer I was a finance intern for Intellectual Ventures (IV), the patent company based in Seattle....
...However, this summer Amazon also started testing home delivery of a full range of groceries in select neighbourhoods in its home town of Seattle using its own trucks....
...It seems that all those well-worn copies of Rocky V and Sleepless in Seattle are gumming up the works. Netflix customers watch roughly 8m DVDs a week....
...The agreement is an important win for RealNetworks, the Seattle-based software group, which has lagged behind its arch rival, Microsoft, in the race to persuade mobile carriers to adopt its streaming media...
...He is currently program chair for the Web 2.0 conference, a columnist for Business 2.0, and the founder, chairman, and publisher of Federated Media Publishing, Inc....
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