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...US national security officials are scrutinising an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund’s planned $3bn takeover of New York-based Fortress Investment Group amid concerns in Washington over the United Arab Emirates...
...Additional reporting by Felicia Schwartz in Washington...
...The deal would also dent competition for workers and hamper their ability to obtain higher wages, according to the complaint, which was joined by a bipartisan group of nine attorneys-general from regions...
...With additional reporting by Alex Rogers in Washington...
...Veteran British media executive Sir Will Lewis has been named as the new publisher and chief executive of The Washington Post, as the newspaper group owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos looks to revive its...
...Bezos, who owns The Washington Post newspaper and runs the Bezos Earth Fund philanthropic group, has also recently drawn attention for reportedly relocating from Seattle to Miami, and for a luxurious lifestyle...
...China and Russia are challenging US claims to mineral-rich stretches of seabed because Washington has failed to ratify a treaty — the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea — that governs access to resources...
...“The receptivity to bank M&A of size has not been high in this administration,” said Brian Graham, partner at financial services advisory firm Klaros Group....
...One recent study by researchers from Columbia University, the University of Houston and the Brattle Group consulting firm quantified the shortfall....
...The group has denied wrongdoing, arguing it is facing tough competition and that its market share is the result of the strength of its product, which consumers choose to use....
...(Nikkei Asia) Washington pushes allies to tighten China chipmaking restrictions (FT) Alibaba to improve stock options and other incentives for employees (Nikkei Asia) Anyone for crickets?...
...The attempt to find a solution to the Israel-Gaza conflict comes to Washington on Monday with President Joe Biden playing host to King Abdullah of Jordan....
...Microsoft is featured in the trial as the most prominent big tech group seeking to break Google’s grip on the internet search market via its engine Bing....
...Its report said it had tracked campaigns from groups linked to the government of Russia, China and other nations....
...Kaplan said the industry’s largest gain was on Blackstone’s buyout of hotel group Hilton Worldwide, which yielded more than $11bn in gains....
...The group plans to welcome more members at a later stage....
...Google had also been due to face off in court against dating app company Match and a group of US state attorneys-general, which had brought their own complaints about its mobile Play store....
...Kanter, who was in the Washington courtroom on Tuesday as an observer, inherited the Google case from the Donald Trump administration, which first filed it in 2020....
...In one instance, a group head in the US had business conversations via text messages and WhatsApp with at least 32 employees....
...Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has hired Jarryd Anderson as a bank regulatory partner in Washington, DC. He joins from O’Melveny & Myers....
...He has spent weeks coordinating dozens of bankers and strategising with Son at a time when investor enthusiasm for chip stocks is tempered by growing tensions between Beijing and Washington....
...And we do,” Putin told a group of servicemen in comments published on Sunday....
...Made in India Washington-Beijing tension and supply chain turmoil are driving Apple’s production out of China and into India, a manufacturing strategy that doubles as an attempt to crack the Indian market...
...Similar groups have been established before....
...And one scoop: US national security officials are scrutinising an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund’s planned $3bn takeover of New York-based Fortress Investment Group amid concerns in Washington over the...
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