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In his view, it shows that investors are interested in evaluating memory-chip makers on their own given the role they play in the AI buildout, rather than as part of the broader chip sector.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Unilever would share control with independent directors who were self-perpetuating: They couldn’t be removed by Unilever, and they appointed their own successors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
In turn, Nolan has sacrificed Odysseus himself to serve his own needs, scrapping the character’s prickly personality to Trojan-horse a message about how empires collapse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Michael Sheen is set to star in a Welsh comedy film about a UFO sighting - after sharing his own encounter with "a phalanx of lights" in his hometown.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
“You can’t stop me from helping my own grandchild!”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
In April, Semafor reported that Letterboxd was also in talks with Comcast spin-off Versant, which owns Fandango and Rotten Tomatoes.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Morgenstern is a matchmaker and dating expert, and Spiess is a real-estate agent and owns an art gallery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Goddard said the department let its previous operating agreement with Flock lapse last week due to lingering questions over who owns the data collected by the company’s plate readers and who has access to it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
These days, Pegula resides with her husband, wealth management executive Taylor Gahagen, and their dogs in Boca Raton, Fla., where her family also owns a huge equestrian spread.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
“There were protests here, in Yazd too. My dad was there. Not protesting. He was on the way to work. He owns the store with Amou Ashkan.”
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
Watt added that the firm "should be owned by the equity punks and I will endeavour to ensure that happens".
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
The settlement comes three months after federal prosecutors filed the lawsuit, accusing the company of illegally selling, auctioning or disposing of vehicles owned by SCRA-protected service members.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
As of now, Letterboxd is majority-owned by the Canadian holding company Tiny, which has a 60% stake, while the remaining 40% is owned by the platform’s co-founders Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
Then there are the Mets, owned by hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
It was, in many instances, the most powerful mask she owned, more powerful than her true face.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Having grown up in L.A. himself, Guido talked about owning the persona of “Running Point” character Jackie Moreno: a concession-worker-turned-executive-assistant from Boyle Heights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
All of these things should make fund managers reasonably interested in owning bonds, which do well when inflation falls.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
In reality, the court was told, Griffiths was employed at Newberry International Produce in Newent, Gloucestershire, and rented the £900,0000 Oxford property rather than owning it.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
“Employees often feel safer owning the company they know, but that can be familiarity bias masquerading as investment analysis,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
I thought she’d appreciate me owning it, because that’s all you hear once you get inside.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
