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Invesco in Talks to Merge With State Street's Asset-Management Business
Business, Published on 18/09/2021
» Invesco Ltd. is in talks to merge with State Street Corp.'s asset-management business, people familiar with the matter said.
More than just football
Business, Published on 11/07/2018
» The amount of data available to be mined during a major sporting tournament is almost unbelievable. If companies and analysts can harvest and utilise the data well, it would benefit them greatly. Google, for example, usually has a dedicated team during the World Cup that scours real-time search data to present useful, shareable facts and visuals for users.
NBCUniversal buys rest of USJ
Business, Bloomberg News, Published on 02/03/2017
» Tokyo/New York: Comcast Corp, the largest US cable operator, said on Tuesday that it would acquire full control of a company that operates a Harry Potter-featured theme park in Japan, targeting the appeal of getaways for the region's growing middle-class and record visitors to the Asian nation.
Guarded hopefulness
Asia focus, Published on 16/11/2015
» John Micklethwait is a newspaper man seized by fear and hope for the future of journalism. To be sure, "newspaper man" is a bit of an anachronistic description for the new editor-in-chief at Bloomberg News, where no ink is spilled on paper. Across 325,000 Bloomberg terminals, headlines splash upon screens in seconds, bumping stale events much faster than one wraps fish with yesterday's page one.
Rakuten to buy Viber messaging app
Bloomberg News, Published on 14/02/2014
» TOKYO — Rakuten Inc, the Japanese online retailer controlled by billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani, is buying the Viber Internet messaging and calling service for $900 million as it moves into social networking.
Rapid capital market development in Asean
Jon Fernquest, Published on 09/05/2011
» Transparent capital markets stretch across ASEAN borders replacing the secrecy of banks, local-currency bond markets reducing risk of currency and maturity mismatch.