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...jonathan.guthrie@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Focus on the haystack — not on the needles / From Brendan P Geary, Washington, DC, US Active v passive: put more faith in market forces / From...
...Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox is picking a fight with Google and other tech groups by joining a fight over sex trafficking that has become a proxy war in Washington over Silicon Valley accountability...
...According to a McKinsey Global Institute report released in June, cities in Europe, North America, China and East Asia have the most developed technology bases, while those in Latin America, Africa and India...
...“They affirmed the conviction, which is a victory for the government,” said Jon Eisenberg of K & L Gates in Washington. “But they made it clear the government’s burden is a heavy one.”...
...Performance fees earned for exiting deals dropped to $233m, from $333m a year ago, dragged by Carlyle Partners V, its $13.7bn North America buyout fund started in 2007 with investments from Getty Images...
...He is your representative in Washington.”...
...A Washington Post poll of Virginia found him trailing Hillary Clinton by 14 points among registered voters, while a Monmouth University poll of Florida showed Clinton with a nine-point lead....
...(CPI) Number of the day 73% v 28%The proportion of remaining delegates that Sanders would need to win in order to secure the nomination, compared to what Clinton needs....
It would be a tragedy if the promise of technology was sideswiped by a neo-Luddite backlash
...In 1996, a landmark ruling in the case of Bernstein v. Department of Justice established that computer code was free speech, protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution....
...Forwarded Google v Uber Alphabet is planning to launch a fleet of self-driving cars for hire next year, which will have it competing with Uber....
...“There’s unlikely to be the big titan v titan litigation that we saw in the smartphone wars.”...
...Alibaba founder Jack Ma is following in the footsteps of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who snapped up the Washington Post for $250m two years ago....
...And I’m thinking Denzel Washington for Hillcoat’s tough but caring boss Bernard Kantor… Mogul: …who tells Hatstand: “Kid, you’re the best we got....
...Other poor investments in TPG V include Washington Mutual, and the former TXU, now renamed Energy Future Holdings, the largest buyout ever, which filed for bankruptcy protection in April....
...The line up is: Portugal v Sweden, France v Ukraine, Greece v Romania and Iceland v Croatia PlayStation 4 launches Sony launches its PlayStation 4 in the US....
...Dattaraj V. Salgaocar (V. M. Salgaocar Group) Harsh Pati Singhania (J.K. Organisation) Krishen Sud (Sivik Global Healthcare, Inc.)...
...It was an incredible time to be working in the patent field given the various rulings, particularly Apple v. Samsung....
...From the SEC release: Washington, D.C., Oct. 19, 2011 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Citigroup’s principal U.S. broker-dealer subsidiary with misleading investors about a $1 billion...
...The anti-tax message in that 1992 decision, Quill v North Dakota, is not as clear-cut as Amazon’s friends let on....
...Cohen subsequently made phone calls from an outdoor pay phone to tip his uncle David V....
...Act V. Manhattan and Washington. The fool is exposed: his parcels are empty. He is banished. King Sandy, his reputation tarnished, is deposed....
...The concern with this is that Washington is giving more power to shareholders who are holding stock for less time and thus demanding a more immediate return on their investment....
...Finally, Washington stepped in to prevent AIG’s bankruptcy, fearing the alternative was an economic meltdown. How did it all come apart so quickly? Here are the pieces Mr....
...Having already won clearance in Washington, Oracle tried to rush its deal through in Brussels without showing due deference to regulators there, and has paid the price....
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