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...Twitter also faces $1.5bn of annual interest payments on $13bn of debt Musk used to fund the acquisition....
...To find out, don’t miss this all-dayer in leafy Barnes packed with mindfulness workshops, fitness, food and music....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. You can build it, but will they come?...
...On a bright Tuesday in April, the car parks at Fosse Park, an out-of-town shopping centre south of Leicester, are packed....
...rates and used car prices....
...The latter is based on the open-source Risc-V architecture....
...Business groups and think-tanks are making a mistake to cast Uber v London as a totemic fight to preserve capitalism....
...“We used to hire people just to count cars in parking lots and things like that. In hindsight, it was all ridiculously inconsistent and anecdotal,” Mr Ainslie says....
...The technology runs on augmented reality headsets and is already being used by the Ford Motor Company....
...Musk says: “The $420 buyout price would only be used for Tesla shareholders who do not remain with our company if it is private....
...Silicon Valley, on San Francisco's peninsula, is often used as the catch-all phrase representing US West Coast tech, even though Amazon and Microsoft are up in Washington state and its biggest companies...
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on November 27. ©2017 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Legendary radio man John Snagge used these words while describing the race for the BBC....
...Related links: What Hertz tells us about the future of shared mobility – FT Alphaville Shared mobility V.1, USSR edition – FT Alphaville Do the economics of self-driving taxis actually make sense?...
...You could say the rental business isn’t really about renting cars. It’s about borrowing money and selling used cars, while renting them in the interim....
...In February 2011, world bowling champion Chris Barnes played against EARL (the Enhanced Automated Robotic Launcher)....
...“The 3G people . . . are very good at making a business productive with fewer people than operated before, but we have been doing that in every industry, whether it is steel or cars, you name it, and that...
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...The land we are on used to be a golf course. Maybe in a few years they will reopen the course, and that will improve the appraisal value.”...
...V&A’s robot-made web London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, has launched a season of exhibitions and events focused on the “unsung role” of engineering in society....
...This means the data being thrown off by cars, aeroplane engines, elevators and other industrial products, supplying the raw material to turn dumb manufactured goods into what he calls “systems of intelligence...
...He cited a lawsuit in federal court in the Eastern District of Texas in which a patent that covered security systems, where a smartwatch could be used to turn on or off a car alarm, was in dispute....
...Such an expansion, which Amazon itself has not confirmed, would position it as a competitor to booksellers such as Barnes & Noble....
...growing trends” in the auto sector: autonomous cars and software....
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