Jobs was now back at Apple as Amelio's adviser, though it was something of a reverse takeover: former NeXT staff such as Avie Tevanian and Jon Rubinstein took charge of Apple's software and hardware respectively.
Raymond G. Chambers, the former Wall Street takeover investor who is now owner of the New Jersey Nets of the N.B.A., was an unlikely candidate to receive an award from the William E. Simon Foundation, but there he was last Thursday, accepting a $250,000 prize for philanthropic leadership.
Dean Holdsworth has yet to have his return to Bolton Wanderers rubber stamped, with the former striker's consortium takeover subject to Football League approval, but Burnley completed a takeover of their own at the top of the Championship.
Before Mr Hands's takeover, the former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney had already quit EMI for the new record arm of Starbucks, saying the label had become "really very boring".
The sentence is the latest since a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood after an army takeover stripped former president Mohamed Morsi of power in 2013 following mass protests against his rule.
Today's statement added: "The Club... has financing in place which will fully support the Club's operations". Broughton's arrival will at least end the state of paralysis that has existed inside the Anfield boardroom since Hicks and Gillett's business relationship broke down within a year of their takeover from former majority shareholder, David Moores.
Amid concerns that all the major banks mis-sold similar products, he said the bank was reviewing a number of cases where complex financial products were sold by Alliance & Leicester before the former building society's takeover by Santander at the height of the credit crunch in 2008.
Chris Wilder's team are unbeaten in six games in all competitions, but the result was overshadowed by Thursday's news that a proposed takeover by former Oxford chairman Kelvin Thomas is in doubt.
Unruffled, Nomura's boss dismisses doubts about his plan to turn Japan's 83-year-old brokerage into a global hitter even, he suggests, if that means a "reverse takeover" by former Lehman executives, one of whom may eventually end up with his job.
