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...Ron DeSantis’s biggest donor is considering switching his support to Donald Trump, in a sharp rebuke of the Florida governor’s White House aspirations....
...“Our aspiration was to create an iconic moment in support of the government’s efforts to remind the world how relevant and exciting Hong Kong is....
...Silicon Valley’s longstanding aspiration that consumers will wear cameras on their faces and talk to virtual assistants through their glasses has failed to materialise, however....
...But he had big aspirations to take on the establishment that dominated the entertainment industry....
...Groups such as Apollo, Blackstone, Ares, KKR and Blue Owl increasingly concede that their traditional offerings for pensions and sovereign wealth funds will not be enough to reach their aspirations to manage...
...Were it not for Zuckerberg’s aspirations, external shareholders would be happy to collect payouts from this maturing cash cow....
...Musk thinks it is because of the aspirations that his products aim to satisfy....
...“It’s the holy grail,” says Mark Makepeace, the head of index provider Wilshire. “It solves a core problem of investing and would be hugely beneficial.”...
...that Norway’s Nent is proof that what was an unexceptional, middling European media conglomerate — spanning radio, pay-TV and free-to-air channels — can reinvent itself as a streaming-first company with aspirations...
...He was also general counsel at Revolution LLC, the venture capital firm founded by Steve Case, former CEO of AOL. Over the years, he has gained a reputation for his approachability....
...(Vanity Fair) Powering up Volkswagen chief Herbert Diess isn’t giving up on the German carmaker’s aspirations to enter the electric car ring, competing with the likes of Tesla and the Renault-Nissan alliance...
...Gerald Kepes is president of Competitive Energy Strategies, LLC, an energy consultancy based in Washington DC....
...Investment from the car retailer AutoNation, meanwhile, has served to highlight Waymo’s aspiration to deliver goods as well as people....
...The switch coincided with growing tensions inside the company, as workers who had been attracted by Google’s idealistic aspirations balked at initiatives such as a proposal to launch a censored search engine...
...UK investors have poured cold water on an aspiration by hedge fund Third Point to double Prudential’s valuation by breaking up the UK’s biggest listed insurer....
...As a teenager, the chief executive of Cambridge Associates, who stands a respectable six feet, nurtured aspirations of playing basketball professionally....
...Four years later, the future of the UK capital’s tech aspirations and of DeepMind’s centre of gravity look a lot less certain....
...While laying out Google’s aspirations, Mr Pichai did not explain how it would reach the hard decisions about when to limit the use of AI or whether any outsiders would have a voice in the process....
...Fingers crossed (and horseshoes, four-leafed clovers and waving cats firmly in hand) for WP Global Growth and its aspirations to raise more than . . . $13bn....
...Thomas Toth, a managing director at Wilshire Associates, the consultancy, says the amount of excess capital is “very substantial” and has helped push up prices paid for deals....
...Keep talking about your corporate aspirations and what you do for customers. In 20 years of annual letters, the Amazon boss has barely done anything else....
...But by the end of 2018, there is a good chance that their global aspirations will have become much more apparent. richard.waters@ft.com...
...For the bidder’s banker, Aryeh Bourkoff, the moment marked a comeback for a start-up investment bank with similar aspirations to disrupt the established order....
...“Energex Partners will work with industrial clients along the value chain, as well as sovereign organisations and trading businesses guiding them to their growth aspirations,” the company said in a release...
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