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Singapore Enterprise Buys TGI Friday’s; Capgemini Acquires Altran 

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Three stores were shuttered in 2018 as profits dipped due to issues with the input tax credit. The TGI Friday’s brand will continue in India following the ownership change, The Economic Times reported on Monday (Sept. The restaurant has nine locations in India and has been in the country for more than 20 years. India’s population of 1.3

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Uber of X: greenRush is The Uber of Cannabis

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After it became illegal in the United States through the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, the business of selling cannabis went mostly underground. Not until 2004 did cannabis become legal for non-medical use in certain areas of the country. We are the “Amazon” of Cannabis, the largest online marketplace in the world.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

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Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, The companies served different user bases: Nextel was more of a business brand, with customers often drawn to its signature walkie-talkie technology.

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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

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The company’s assets were acquired by Q Holdings in 2015, and the firm quietly relaunched the Quirky brand in 2017. Second, the thesis that one or two brands would quickly go on to own on-demand food turned out to be either wrong or too early. In September 2015, Quirky finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

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As millennials head deeper into adulthood and make more money, the personal finance space is adapting to their unique money management attitudes in a few key ways: From in-person to online. The average millennial student debt load was $10,600 as of 2017 — about 2X more than what was owed by Gen X in 2004. From big banks to big tech.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

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Unity Software, a software platform aimed at video-game developers, pursued a bidding-based approach to its IPO in September 2020, similar to the process used by Google when the search giant went public in 2004. Unity relied upon a bidding system managed by Goldman Sachs, in which prospective investors were asked to bid on shares in Unity.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

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And that we should do that not because they’re tax evaders or evil — all things he said they, like all of us, are. That Apple uses its closed ecosystem and the power of its brand to disadvantage others by denying access or imposing frictions on competing services like Spotify. In 2004 in the U.S.,

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