Hints and tips:
...There’s also the Hawaiian-themed fast-food joint Big Kahuna Burger in Reservoir Dogs, From Dusk Til Dawn and Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, and Big Jerry Cab Co., which Butch Coolidge uses to escape the...
...Enter Paul Draper, fresh from some experimental winemaking in Chile, where he’d done a stint in the Peace Corps....
...You can’t go back to any of those jobs with cognitive dysfunction,” says Diana Berrent, founder of Survivor Corps, a long Covid support group in the US....
...The son of a Lithuanian Jewish cab driver and a Welsh seamstress, Adelson grew up sharing a tenement bedroom with his immigrant parents and three siblings....
...If the supply of taxi medallions (or, in London, black cabs) had not been as constrained as it was, there would have been less of an opening for Uber and Lyft....
...So this is somewhere they can go, drop a bag, get something typed, call a cab, have a shower, a coffee and a sandwich, and meet other people.”...
Joint venture bids to crack $15bn market despite cab industry’s resistance
...Advised by bankers, cab drivers and other sages, the US cable group has trumped Fox with an offer at £12.50 per share. “Gee, golly gosh!”...
...left-leaning political views have deep roots in his childhood in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, New York, where he grew up in housing projects and his father worked as a truck driver, factory worker and cab...
...Brian Roberts, the deadpan boss, jokingly attributed Comcast’s interest to a conversation with a cab driver. Comcast is almost purely a US company so the direct cost savings are limited....
...The Mercedes-Benz carmaker will join three Japanese banks — MUFG, Mizuho and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp — Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, and the sovereign wealth fund of Bahrain to fill the last $7bn...
...One London cabbie has just earned the right to bore passengers as follows: “I had this American geezer in the back of the cab. Took him to the shops to have a look at getting Sky....
...Credit unions carved out a lucrative niche financing cab operators, who need to borrow to buy licences, known as medallions, issued by the authorities to collect passengers....
...“Hardly anyone hails a cab on the side of the road these days, only elderly people who don’t use smartphones,” he says. Didi has established a dominant position in China....
...But he said he had been convinced of the merits of acquiring the company in November on a trip to London when a cab driver told him in great detail about the differences between Sky and its rival, Virgin...
...The London cab driver asked by an American passenger what he thought of the UK pay-television market could not have known that his answer might potentially sway a set of takeover deals worth tens of billions...
...But many Indian cab drivers are are on both the Uber and Ola platforms, and the two companies have at times engaged in fierce price wars....
While car-booking companies battle for supremacy, investors hedge their bets
...The dramatic overhaul of SoftBank’s strategy for India came after the sudden departure in June 2016 of its president Nikesh Arora, who had overseen large investments in Snapdeal, cab hailing app Ola and...
...Beijing’s taxi drivers are no fans of the electric cabs in use there since 2014, complaining about inadequate battery range, alarming performance dips in cold weather and insufficient charging stations....
...It can be used for everything from hailing cabs, ordering food deliveries and buying cinema tickets to booking doctors’ appointments....
...But that sparked a surge in taxi companies, and in 2013, regulations were tightened again to control the number of cabs on the roads....
...And my cab driver says to me, so er, what do y’all do for a living? I was like, I’m in tech. He’s like, successful? And I’m like, reasonably. And he said to me, it’s quite funny, pardon my French....
...As well as controlling the devices in which it is encased, Alexa can switch on lights and open doors, not to mention read the news, book a cab on Uber or order a pizza....
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