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Apple / Beats: can kicking

Beats by Dr. Dre Solo HD with Apple iPhone on white background
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Build or buy? Trick question: neither is worth it here

Publicis Group CEO Maurice Levy (L) shakes hands with Omnicom Group CEO John Wren during a press conference in Paris
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12:43pm

Publicis / Omnicom: myth and reality

There is no such thing as a merger of equals

Workers load sacks of cement onto a truck for distribution at PT Holcim Indonesia's distribution center in Tanggerang,
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5:13pm

Holcim / Lafarge: not so wholesome

Merger of cement companies contains worrisome contradictions

Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., speaks during a keynote speech at the China 2.0: Transforming Media and Commerce conference in Stanford, California, U.S., on Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. Ma said he's "very interested" in buying Yahoo! Inc., the U.S. Web portal that owns about 40 percent of his company. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Jack Ma
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11:15am

Alibaba: Sili-Khan Valley

US internet companies should pay more attention to what is happening in the east

An employee works at her desk inside the sales office at the Yahoo Inc. headquarters in Barcelona, Spain, on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. A smart city initiative, which also involves rolling out electric vehicles and bikes and making neighborhood blocks' energy output self-sufficient, widescale deployment of sensors and quick-response codes to 8,000 points around the city by the end of the year to provide location-based information to anyone with a smartphone, could save Barcelona 3 billion euros in the next decade. Photographer: David Ramos/Bloomberg
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May 8, 2014

AOL / Yahoo: like its 1999

Both internet companies have become attractive value plays

Tony Hayward, photographed during an interview with the FT at Finsbury this morning.
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May 8, 2014

Glencore Xstrata / Genel: Tony award

Hayward could benefit at the expense of shareholders

A Barclays logo sits inside a bank branch, left, near the headquarters of Barclays Plc, right, in the Canary Wharf business, financial and shopping district of London, U.K., on Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Barclays settled the first U.K. lawsuit filed over allegations the bank manipulated Libor, weeks before the trial was scheduled to start. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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May 8, 2014

Barclays: biting back

Is this the UK bank’s UBS moment?

A man walks past the headquarters of the Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena
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May 8, 2014

Italian banks: who’s in charge here?

More capital is needed, but good governance is a bigger issue

Raymond Kwok (front), one of the chairmen of development giant Sun Hung Kai Properties arrives at the high court in Hong Kong on May 8, 2014. Billionaire Hong Kong property tycoons Thomas and Raymond Kwok go on trial in a blockbuster corruption case that analysts say could lift the lid on cosy ties between officials and wealthy moguls
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May 8, 2014

Sun Hung Kai: trying times

Kwok brothers’ property developer may be worth another look

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May 7, 2014

Mondelez: bean counting

Coffee deal distracts from snack group’s eroding growth prospects

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