For deal makers, 2024 is a year to look forward to, if only because 2023 wasn’t necessarily one to celebrate. Despite some notable transactions, the year presented challenges to the bankers and lawyers who advise corporate clients on big takeovers and initial public offerings. Global M.&A. fell to a 10-year low. About 53,529 deals worth […]
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Mr. Granger had an early interest in food, bringing his parents a “silver service” of breakfast in bed from the age of 5 and working his way through magazine recipe cards, before turning his attention to the food writers Elizabeth David and Margaret Fulton. He feasted on Melbourne’s richly diverse cuisine, eating dim sum with […]
One of China’s largest investment firms, Citic Trust, had a clear pitch to investors when it was aiming to raise $1.7 billion to fund property development in 2020: There is no safer Chinese investment than real estate. The trust, the investment arm of the state-owned financial conglomerate Citic, called housing “China’s economic ballast” and “an […]
Apple was resuming sales of its newest smartwatches on Thursday, a day after a federal appeals court temporarily reversed an earlier ban on their import and sale in the United States. But the watches’ fate will ultimately depend on how a continuing legal fight plays out in federal court over the next few weeks. The […]
If 2023 was the year of A.I. awakening, 2024 could be the year of A.I. reckoning. Source link
The stock prices of Chinese video game companies rebounded Wednesday after investors seized on signals that the government was having second thoughts about proposed regulations on gaming. Since the weekend, regulators have tried to calm the market after shares of the two largest video game companies, Tencent and Netease, plunged on Friday. When trading resumed […]
Overcoming legal hurdles and benefiting from promotional campaigns, the Glock became a phenomenal seller, especially in the United States. It arrived in the mid-1980s, when crime rates were soaring and police officers felt outgunned. New models and calibers with extended clips were introduced. Two-thirds of America’s police forces, including New York City’s, adopted the Glock, […]
The shipping giant Maersk indicated on Wednesday that after avoiding the Red Sea and the Suez Canal for about a week because of attacks on shipping it was again directing its vessels through the canal. The Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen has been attacking ships in the Red Sea, saying they are retaliating against Israel’s […]
True crime is among the most popular genres in podcasting. One of the biggest stories in the coming months is the wave of criminal charges facing former President Donald J. Trump. The result: a boomlet of podcasts dedicated to the criminal cases against him. MSNBC, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, NPR, Vox Media and The First TV, […]
Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said. Source link