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...richard.waters@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Driverless cars in search of Edison lightbulb moment / From Michael Ayres, San Francisco, CA, US...
...Silvergate has announced it’s “voluntarily” liquidating. From the bank: LA JOLLA, Calif....
...Oded Rhone, Edison Energy chief executive, says tech companies have “substantially” accelerated the market for renewables. “Now if there were not tech companies, would it have happened anyway?...
...Investors said the slump had been exacerbated by speculation that an NMC shareholder was liquidating its holding....
...New York utilities including Consolidated Edison and a division of the UK’s National Grid urged against abandoning the marketplace....
...“In my opinion, Larry is the Thomas Edison of our time,” said Mr Thrun. “He didn’t just invent one thing. He wants to be on the bleeding edge of technology, wherever it is.”...
...However, the stock has stabilised this year as GAM makes progress in liquidating funds managed by Tim Haywood, who was suspended last summer over alleged misconduct....
...Brands in nearly $270m for Barneys (WSJ) KKR buys majority stake in UK ‘altnet’ Hyperoptic (FT) Glasgow Rangers chair given rare ‘cold-shoulder’ by City body (FT) Neptune Energy strikes $250m deal for Edison...
...It was 1912 when Thomas Edison laid out his vision for a new industrial civilisation in a letter to Henry Ford....
...The news is a victory for Senvest, which had urged NRE’s board to end the management fees it was paying to Colony by liquidating the Reit and returning the proceeds to investors through buybacks or dividends...
...Thomas Edison’s inventions now bring in only 1.5 per cent of the revenues at the company he founded, and GE Appliances was a financial afterthought even by the time Jack Welch, star of a thousand business...
...Alastair George, chief investment strategist at Edison Investment Research, sounds a cautious tone on the tax cuts package, which has yet to be signed into law by the president: [It] appears insufficient...
...In the US, 67m people — nearly a quarter of the adult population — listen to podcasts every month, up 21 per cent from a year ago, according to Edison Research....
...Berkshire and NextEra, about eight other companies had expressed interest in acquiring Oncor, including ITC, the largest specialist transmission company in the US, the Dallas-based Hunt family group and Edison...
...The 131-year-old company was founded by George Westinghouse, an engineer who rivalled Thomas Edison in driving industrial breakthroughs in the US in the 19th century....
...Last month, the New York utility Consolidated Edison reached a deal to sell its retail electricity and natural gas business to Constellation, a unit of power generator and utility operator Exelon, for an...
...The company ended up liquidating its assets after it filed for Chapter 11....
...- Activism may have an antitrust problem - Zeno’s Paradox updated: No matter how many days Sun Edison drops 50 per cent it never reaches zero. - The hidden economics of porn....
...- Going long Sun Edison. - The “temptation to teach products to lie strategically will be as impossible to resist for companies in the near future.” - Lagarde-ian of the galaxy....
...We would be enormously surprised if the past deals of Sun Edison did not work out....
...Monthly listenership in the US has grown to 46m people, or 17 per cent of the over-12 population, from 39m a year ago, according to a survey this year from Edison Research....
...The success of shows such as Mr Maron’s is lifting the value of podcast advertising, a market estimated at $100m by Edison Research and Triton Digital, an audio technology company....
...Monthly listenership in the US has grown to 46m people, or 17 per cent of the over-12 population, from 39m a year ago, according to a new survey from Edison Research....
Group in $2.4bn deal for privately owned First Wind
...A survey of US smartphone owners by Edison Research this year found just 1 per cent had downloaded Rdio’s app compared with 50 per cent for Pandora and 9 per cent for Spotify....
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