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  • The Mumbai police’s probe stands vindicated with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) ruling out murder in the actor Sushant Singh Rajput case, city police commissioner Param Bir Singh said on Saturday. Some people with “vested interests” targeted Mumbai police without knowing anything about the investigation, he told PTI. The AIIMS medical board…

  • Thankfully, there are early signs of consolidationNOWHERE IS CORPORATE do-goodery more on show than in a firm’s sustainability report. Today 58% of companies in America’s S&P 500 index publish one, up from 37% in 2011, according to Datamaran, a software provider. Among the photos of blooming flowers and smiling children, firms sneak in environmental, social…

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    Why we need to laugh at work

    by Lily White

    The place that launched a thousand quipsWHEN BARTLEBY reflects on life’s lessons, he always remembers his grandfather’s last words: “A truck!” Bartleby’s uncle also suffered an early demise, falling into a vat of polish at the furniture factory. It was a terrible end but a lovely finish.Whether you find such stories amusing will depend on…

  • The merger between two frackers is a rare example of consolidation in a fragmented industryTO CALL 2020 tough for shalemen is to call a monsoon a mist. Covid-19 has halved the value of fracking firms this year. Rig counts are down (see chart). A perfect time for consolidation, then. Yet besides Chevron’s $5bn bid for…

  • Investors are betting on the American jeweller’s corporate nuptialsTHE MOST ardent romances result in the most acrimonious divorces. In the case of Tiffany and LVMH, rancour preceded the nuptials. In the amorous phase the French luxury giant behind Louis Vuitton had described the American purveyor of engagement rings as a corporate jewel, agreeing to a…

  • A judge in California hears the opening arguments in what promises to be a drawn-out—and consequential—disputeFITTINGLY, THE legal deathmatch is happening online. On September 28th a court in California heard arguments, via video call, in a case that pits Apple against Epic Games, the maker of “Fortnite”, a hit video game. At issue is whether…

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    What Warren Buffett sees in Japan Inc

    by Lily White

    TO UNDERSTAND WHY it was a shock last month when Berkshire Hathaway invested $6.5bn in five Japanese trading houses that have been around for far longer even than its 90-year-old chairman, go back to a talk Warren Buffett gave to business students in Florida in 1998. As a sprightly sexagenarian with his sleeves rolled up,…

  • Cyberpunk 2077 is basically a launch title.The open-world RPG is a compelling case for next-gen consoles.Will gamers consider it in the upcoming launch lineup?Cyberpunk 2077, the hotly-anticipated game from The Witcher 3 devs CD Projekt Red, is launching one week after the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. This essentially makes it a launch title…