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...Additional contributions from Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
..., adding that Bayer’s management “grossly underestimated” the litigation risks of the Monsanto takeover in connection with the deal....
...Skjolden today looks pretty much as it did in 1913, save for the village’s only hotel, a later arrival, where I stayed in a room with spectacular views down the V-shaped valley of Lustrafjord....
...(FT) Dockwork ers v robots Dockworkers in Los Angeles are making a last stand against the automation of lucrative port jobs....
...Synth company Teenage Engineering will transform the space into a 1970s discotheque, while sound artist Yuri Suzuki cuts records....
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...Bombarded Day two of the Bombardier v Boeing tariff scandal and attention has turned on the British government’s motivation to fight back against proposed US action against the Canadian company....
...AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner and Bayer’s purchase of Monsanto) that are still pending approval from the competition watchdog....
...However, a number of the year’s biggest deals were agreed in the third quarter, including Bayer’s $66bn takeover of agribusiness rival Monsanto and Spectra Energy’s $28bn all-share merger with Enbridge....
...(BBC) Video of the day Google v Apple, round 2 As Google again draws level with Apple as the world’s largest company, John Authers looks at the historic performance of companies once they have become the...
...Recently, their targets have included a growing number of Chinese companies....
...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...
...Economists dispute the nature of the recovery – is it a bounce-back “v” or a double-dip “w” – while old market hands caution that the summer rally could eventually give way to a correction....
...The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One By Miranda Carter Fig Tree, £25 The parallel, interrelated lives of Kaiser Wilhelm II, George V and Nicholas II provide a grotesque...
...By 1974 it had become one of the most profitable transport companies in Britain....
...In the west, glass-fibre-reinforced plastics, developed by Monsanto to protect radar equipment on US military aircraft, were re-worked into moulded furniture designed by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman...
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