He's one of the largest shareholders, with a 1.46 percent stake in the company, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Some WPP watchers have been highly critical about what they perceive to be an over-reliance by the company on Sorrell and have claimed there has been a lack of succession
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It's barely more than two years since Australian oil and gas producer Santos Ltd. survived a brush with death. With crude prices slumping as low as $28 a barrel and net debt climbing to $6.6 billion, the company seemed on the brink. Its price-book ratio — which should typically be above one for an oil and
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LONDON (Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch has stepped up the pressure on Britain to approve his $14.5 billion bid for Sky (SKYB.L) by offering to sell or legally separate Sky News, seeking to allay concerns about the 87-year-old mogul's political influence …
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Panera Bread left the information of up to 37 million customers who signed up for delivery and other services including “names, email and physical addresses, birthdays and the last four digits of the customer's credit card number” in plain text format …
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As of this column, George Jones has officially retired from writing the Tax Strategy column after 21 years of thoughtful analysis and insight. I will miss his topic ideas, writing skills and second set of eyes. He always strived to make the column include practical advice that tax practitioners could put to use.
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