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...The debate over Apple’s claims highlights the problems facing companies that are trying to follow environmentally sound policies, while seeking to make marketing statements to tout their green credentials...
...comments from the Williams chief, whose company handles about a third of the gas shipped in the US, come just weeks after the Biden administration agreed to expedite approvals for the controversial Mountain Valley...
...After a rainy start to the year, the hillsides were, unusually, brilliant green. Bright orange poppies, California’s protected state flower, dotted the verges....
...The green investment backlash led by US Republicans has led to investment funds pulling more than $13bn from BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager....
...The really big question in global macro this year is around who will buy the huge wave of extra issuance from governments trying to make ends meet and finance the green energy transition....
...Andy Prendergast, GMB’s national secretary, said: “There is sometimes this Silicon Valley view. If you’re stuck on a computer screen [you can] go and play football . . ....
...“There’s more known about space travel than there is about soil health,” says Tom Gregory, gulping down a cup of tea and glancing out from his farmhouse kitchen at a valley of green fields....
...This year, Meta’s global cryptocurrency project was wound down after US regulators refused to give the pilot the green light over monetary stability and competition concerns....
...Infineon’s Ng said access to green energy was the priority for chip suppliers considering new investments. “The whole industry is talking to the government about increasing supplies of green energy....
...A reduction in base fares was necessary to defend market share and “remain competitive”, Green said....
...Allbirds, which makes wool and eucalyptus-based shoes that have proven especially popular with Silicon Valley tech workers, was the first company to use the ‘SPO’ concept in an IPO....
...Meanwhile politics geeks are taking bets on how the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank will shape the priorities of regulators and lawmakers in months to come....
...Still, Lyft has to become leaner, which requires us to part with incredible team members,” said Logan Green and John Zimmer, Lyft’s co-founders, in a memo to staff....
...“Some of the reaction I’ve heard from other competitors to Apple is they are incandescent,” said Matthew Green, a security professor at Johns Hopkins University, during an online video discussion with researchers...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 28 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...He told the audience that China must prioritise growing industries like artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles and robotics, as well as green energy and pharmaceutical research....
...Chinese regulators have given the green light to more robotaxis operated by online search company Baidu and Toyota-backed Pony.ai in Beijing....
...A person familiar with the matter told DD that Morgan Stanley and Japanese lender MUFG, which owns a 21 per cent stake in the US bank, has secured the green light from their credit committees to provide...
...“But government intervention gives Russia a talking point of the west being no more open to opposing views than they are, while giving the green light to go after the BBC” and other outlets, including domestic...
...Palantir isn’t your traditional Silicon Valley company. Or so it’ll tell you....
...The shoes have become popular among tech workers in Silicon Valley and urban young professionals, propelling online sales revenue to jump 74 per cent from $126m in 2018 to $219.3m in 2020....
...Allbirds, the maker of wool sneakers favoured by the Silicon Valley set, goes out of its way to tout its green credentials....
...They sat among throngs of boisterous bachelorettes wearing pink hats and tipsy St Patrick’s day revellers clad in green....
...A global “techlash” in the years since then means that the idea of Silicon Valley companies as a danger to society is no longer novel....
...Silicon Valley is also an enormous user. The world’s data centres devoured some 200TWh in 2019, according to IEA data....
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