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Broadcom’s play for Symantec goes too far

Technology companies that target fickle consumers can die in a flash. (Juicero, anyone?) The ones that sell technology to businesses tend to hang on a bit longer. That’s why old-guard technology companies that have lost relevance and stopped growing — think BMC Software, Compuware and Tibco Software — have been ripe takeover targets in recent years for the private equity ...

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Mario Draghi should replace Lagarde at IMF

Christine Lagarde’s nomination as president of the European Central Bank takes Mario Draghi a step closer to the end of his term. The Italian academic will step down in October after eight momentous years, during which he made the ECB the most important institution in the monetary union. That doesn’t mean, however, that he should retire from front-line policymaking. A ...

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Where India can find $1tn infrastructure funding

India will need $1 trillion of infrastructure investment to nudge annual GDP growth higher by just half a percentage point in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second five-year term. Of this, at least 55 percent will have to come from public resources. Where’s the money? Those figures from an analysis by the Confederation of Indian Industry are the No. 1 challenge ...

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