Hints and tips:
...You might have to wait till 2040, but the Flying-V aircraft might just be the future of long-haul travel. When sages speak How do you move money from a digital wallet in, say, Kenya to one in China?...
...“We’re talking about institutions that have been around for decades or hundreds of years,” says Mr Wright. “They don’t want to be caught flat-footed.”...
...Aerojet said the AR1 would be ready to fly on Atlas V in 2020 and on Vulcan by 2021, only just behind the 2019 finish date that Blue Origin is targeting....
...Aerojet’s offer underlines the company’s desire to supply the engine for the new Vulcan rocket that ULA is developing to replace its Atlas V, which is powered by Russia-built engines that congress has said...
...Robert Wright EARNINGS Boeing Q4 $2.14 ($2.31) Trading and sales update: Aberdeen Asset Management, Sage Amazon hard act to follow When Amazon reports results it will be hard for the company to compete...
...V.me allows people to make online purchases without having to punch in their card details each time....
...The engines — powered by methane, a new propellant for US-built engines — will initially power a similar rocket to the Atlas V that ULA powers with Russian-built RD180 engines....
...“We’re here to disrupt and shatter the status quo and dispel preconceived notions,” Johan de Nysschen, Cadillac’s chief executive, said at the unveiling of the new Cadillac CTS-V, a performance version of...
...Robert Wright tells the tale of the 10-year-old cargo dispute that prompted the Iranian military to seize a vessel owned by Oaktree Capital....
...The RD-180 powers ULA’s Atlas V rocket, used for the most sensitive US satellite launches. The US looks all but certain to develop its own alternative....
...ULA has stockpiled two years’ worth of RD180s for launches – and could switch more launches from the Atlas V to its more old-fashioned but wholly US-sourced Delta rockets....
...WARREN BUFFETT (aka the “Sage of Omaha”) Classic Quote: “Rule No. 1: never lose money. Rule No. 2: don’t forget rule No. 1.”...
...John Wright, chief executive of search firm Global Sage in Hong Kong, said Mr Bhattal had been the most high profile banker in Asia for decades....
...In a separate case, New York-listed Diana Shipping said in December it was owed $4.8m for charter of the M/V Houston, which it had chartered for five years to China’s Shagang Shipping....
...“The regulators are forcing the banks to become much more narrow and less diversified institutions,” says Jon Wright, chief executive officer of Global Sage, a headhunting firm with offices in the main financial...
...Finally, Mr O’Connor could not resist heading his note on the departure of Paul Stobart, Sage’s northern European chief executive, as D.I.V.O.R.C.E....
...Breaking news on Tuesday: Goldman Sachs and the Sage of Omaha are planning to save Christmas (and 2010) for small businesses across America, according to Bloomberg....
...Talking to V.S. Naipaul about literature is sobering....
...However, it was hardly a classic David v Goliath battle, given that the victor was Citigroup, the US banking giant, which is no stranger to struggles with regulators across the world....
...In his spare time, Villa is a professor at Georgetown University Law School where he teaches a course entitled “Counseling the Corporation in Crisis”....
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