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...An FT investigation shows how he has used leading corporate lawyers around the world to try to keep western governments at bay....
...(FT) Keeping transparency at bay There’s a $1.5tn dark offshore economy hiding in paradise, and the British Virgin Islands, home to 400,000 companies, is eager to keep it that way....
...martin.wolf@ft.com...
...Martin Wolf, FT chief economics commentator, says Britain must continue to lead — not just for altruistic reasons but because rich countries cannot seal themselves off from the next global pandemic or wave...
...“Now tech money [from the San Francisco Bay Area] has been flowing in and much of that is aimed at the high end.”...
...Gates vs Wolf edition – FT Alphaville...
...New York, FT ALPHAVILLE Why the vultures aren’t the big problem: Joseph explains why the pari passu saga’s legacy won’t be to make holdouts all-powerful in sovereign debt, a worry expressed by Martin Wolf...
...And then I think also, as an entrepreneur, I’m a bit of a lone wolf.” His philosophy is to trust Uber’s employees to be “lone wolves” too....
...Cable companies now face cord-cutting consumers and competition from the Netflix, satellite and telecom groups, Mr Wolf notes....
...The land includes a four-bedroom timber villa, a hunting lodge and stables surrounded by lawns. From the island’s raised 11th-century Viking fort, you can see wild deer, hare, beaver and elk....
...“As soon as I said Wolf was involved, that gave us an enormous amount of credence.”...
...Il lupo perde il pelo ma non il vizio – a wolf sheds its coat but not its vices....
...Called the Caravan Lodge, “Vinny and his girls” had the biggest corporate account....
...But Needham & Co analyst Charles Wolf said last week that the number of Macs shipped to companies grew by 50 per cent in the last quarter, more than triple the growth rate for PCs....
...collection includes modern art – Gary Hume’s Madonna (estimated to sell at £70,000 to £100,000) and a signed etching by Lucian Freud are among the highlights – and works such as The ship Frankfield off Table Bay...
...An appearance at the Grammys will surely help lodge the iPad a bit deeper in the collective consciousness, and up its cool factor....
...“The world is moving more and more towards applications that are layered over social networks, whether it’s Facebook, FriendFeed or Twitter,” said Michael Wolf, the former president of MTV Networks who is...
...At the TV of Tomorrow Show in San Francisco today, Steve Byrd, executive vice president of Stats Inc, the company behind the technology, described how the gimmick worked and explained it was not even a...
...A much smaller US rival, T3 Technologies, is due to lodge a complaint with the European Commission alleging that IBM has abused its market position by tying the sale of its operating system to its mainframe...
...Martin Wolf: Why Obama’s new Tarp will fail to rescue the banks 2. Bank nationalisation gains ground with Republicans 3. China calls for new reserve currency 4....
...It highlights the Three Rivers Eco Lodge, a cluster of four hillside bungalows with solar-heated water, Exotica Cottages, which serves guests organic vegetables from its garden, and Jungle Bay Resort Spa...
...If there is a problem we see in a testing bay, we can despatch an engineer in an hour. Instead of having 50,000 defective boxes, we have just a few.”...
...Richard Lambert, former editor of the FT and member of the Bank of England, monetary policy committee Geoffrey Owen, former editor of the FT and senior fellow at the London School of Economics Martin Wolf...
...“Everything is connected in the internet world, so everything is in standby mode,” says Infineon’s Gerhard Wolf. “The world is always on.”...
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