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US diagnostics company Illumina is fending off Roche’s $5.7bn hostile takeover bid via a “poison pill” to protect its shareholders. Lex's Nikki Tait and Luke Templeman discuss whether this is wise.

The Lex team's Luke Templeman and Richard Stovin-Bradford discuss how minority investors in the Franco-German aerospace group EADS should view the appointment of former European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet to its board.

Vince Cable has outlined an ambitious attempt to rein in soaring executive pay with measures to boost shareholder power and demystify complex pay deals. Lex's Richard Stovin-Bradford and Luke Templeman discuss whether politicians should get involved in the matter.

France and Germany are to call for a relaxation of global bank capital rules, setting them at odds with the UK’s stricter approach to banks. Lex's Richard Stovin-Bradford and Luke Templeman discuss the implications.

A Chinese sovereign wealth fund has bought a stake in Thames Water, the network that serves London. From the Lex team Vincent Boland and Luke Templeman discuss the attraction of Europe and utilities, and if this heralds a Chinese investment wave.


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The Republican presidential candidacy is still far from decided, based on the split primaries and mixed polls so far. So here's another source for trying to figure who's really pulling ahead -- the number of new Facebook fans that each candidate is getting, according to the Inside Facebook Election Tracker.
Mitt Romney is finally making some strong gains this month, in contrast to his Facebook performance over December. By "strong gains" I mean he's been attracting a roughly similar number of fans to Ron Paul, the candidate who normally dominates on the web (and the clear leader last month). The two have fought for the daily lead for most of January, except for when Rick Santorum surged around his Iowa primary win on the 3rd.
As just about everyone should know by now, the seeds of what grew into Facebook were planted at Harvard. Might there be a bunch of mini-Zucks lurking in the dorms of Cambridge? If so, a new venture capital firm — the first housed right on the Harvard campus — wants to find them. 1 member
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