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...Hyundai Motor Group, which owns the Hyundai, Kia and Genesis brands, also has the fourth-largest share of the overall US car market, behind Toyota, Ford and GM, according to sales data from S&P Global....
...Motor car crashes have instead become so common that they are no longer news....
...We need a break up of Big Tech firms to create more innovation, and a safer online world for us all. I like to think of the possibilities through the lens of the motor industry....
...At the extreme, platforms’ control over the means of distribution can lead to companies being expelled or unable to continue doing business through that route....
...He attended Indiana University in Bloomington, where he majored in microbiology. It was there he met his wife of 41 years, Cynthia Ford....
...Job moves General Motors has appointed two new directors: Meg Whitman, the former chief executive of both Hewlett-Packard and Quibi, and NBA deputy commissioner Mark Tatum....
...Breaking down the distrust and building a network of alliances has become a high priority — one reason why the Waymo boss has been considering new ways of doing business alongside the carmakers....
...Richard Waters' Inside Business column explains this should deliver computing power of two billion billion calculations a second as we enter an era of exascale computing....
...UBS has also named Martin Kesselring as head of its Swiss investment banking business. Marc Mezvinsky, who is married to Chelsea Clinton, has joined a unit of private equity firm TPG, per the WSJ....
...“We view this as negative for the stock as the attempt by Third Point to create value for shareholders now through pursuing a sale of the company or a breakup of the business are likely off the table as...
...Perhaps the most poignant illustration of this is found in the birthplace of mass production: the Ford Motor Company....
...“What [hedge funds] are doing as a group is good, but simple. And they’re kicking up a whole lot of dust around it.”...
...Chinese telecoms equipment maker ZTE Corp suspended trading in Hong Kong and Shenzhen on Tuesday pending an announcement after it was cut off from US suppliers and barred from doing business in the UK....
...We are doing record business. We have the highest levels of enthusiasm, so the head of Walmart, who I know, who’s a very nice guy, was making a political statement....
...It is Latham’s history in London that is emblematic of its genesis from West Coast operation to international colossus....
...rankings in the World Bank’s ease of doing business study....
...As with the recent General Motors scandal, regulators were warned repeatedly, but the warnings were ignored....
...He sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5bn in 2002 and, the following year, launched the electric sports car maker, Tesla Motors, now worth about $4bn....
..., such as shipping, dealing with customs authorities and warehouses, than a software business....
...“I’m not a racing guy, I like to think of myself as an industrialist so I’m not doing this for fun, this is a serious industry . . . And we couldn’t have found a better partner than Chery....
...As always, with a hit, there is pressure to produce another: this puts makers of accidental successes in a tough spot. “The good days of Will it Blend?...
...Instead of reacting to the market in terms of watching what competitors are doing and then doing it better, we’re actually trying to see what customers are going to need in the future.”...
...Ally was originally created as a wholly owned financing subsidiary of General Motors, but was spun out in 2006 after the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management bought a 51 per cent stake....
...Ben Allen, Kroll’s chief executive, said he expected growing demand for his company’s services as hiring picked up and businesses put greater importance on doing due diligence....
...Germany’s luxury producers BMW, Daimler and Audi are doing brisk business selling long-wheelbase, chauffeur-friendly versions of their cars with all the extras....
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