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...Stockholm's OMX, as well as the purchase of the U.K. supermarket giant J Sainsbury. Abu Dhabi, like Dubai, a constituent part of the United Arab Emirates, says its Mubadala Development Co. will pay $1.35 billion for a 7.5% share of the U.S.-based private-equity investment firm Carlyle Group, which owns a diverse range of megacompanies, from chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor and nursing-home operator Manor Care to airplane-parts manufacturer Sequa Corp...
Kevin Ferguson ’08, an intern with Google last summer said, based on his experience with the company, opportunities at the firm will go well beyond computer science. “They have a variety of departments, so you don’t necessarily have to know how to program,” he said, mentioning offerings in business, sales, human relations, and corporate communications...
...Black Entertainment Television (BET) and is currently writing the script for the Marvel Comics’ “Black Panther.” Choosing to take a different route from these predecessors, VES concentrator Anna F. Ludwig ’04 decided to work in a law firm immediately following graduation, partly for economic reasons.She says that, about a year ago, she realized she needed time to work on her painting, and now spends three 10-hour days at the firm, dedicating the rest of the time to her art. She is planning to return to graduate school...
Born in Budapest, Munk immigrated to Canada in his teens, after World War II. He studied engineering at the University of Toronto before launching a consumer-electronics firm in the 1950s, only to see it succumb to U.S. and Japanese competition. Munk then built a chain of resorts in Fiji, called Southern Pacific Hotel Corp., and next dabbled in oil and gas, but lost heavily when energy prices collapsed in 1982. Munk turned to gold, he says, only when political unrest in South Africa during the 1980s presented what he saw as an irresistible opportunity. Hunting for safe neighborhoods...
While Musharraf was ready to make firm a date for parliamentary polls that would see the election of a new Prime Minister - a position most Pakistanis assume will be filled by the popular Bhutto - he was less definitive about when, exactly, he was planning to step down as chief of Pakistan's army...