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...“Each accident is like a man biting a dog — it generates so much attention [and] goes to court,” Amnon Shashua, chief executive of Israel-based driver-assist tech group Mobileye, said at a recent Financial...
...Former Elliott investor Leo Markel and ex-ValueAct investor Daniel Urdaneta have launched a new London-based fund called Finch Bay Capital, per Reuters....
...Behind these shareholder entreaties is a fear that the riches amassed during the tech boom are being wasted and that the claims of long-term focus are an excuse for financial indiscipline....
...the world to try to keep western governments at bay....
Venture capital fundraising hit a record-high. Now, the bonanza is over. What does that mean for the future of start-ups?
...An internal FAQ page for Google employees, seen by the Financial Times, says staff will be told to return to the office on a site-by-site basis, with a 30-day transition period....
What brought the FBI to arrest a Chinese-American scientist in the middle of the night?
...The Washington-based group, which dubbed itself the “unified” voice of the internet industry, will shut at the end of the year after both Microsoft and Uber, among others, pulled their financial support,...
...It’s not just the Bay Area either....
The firm’s swift decisions, high valuations and backing of rival start-ups sets it apart from typical venture capitalists
...Few people in the financial world have seen more than he has....
...“And my god, you are seeing it in China where they’re stepping on Ant [Financial].” Watch his keynote presentation here....
...“It’s a more visceral reminder of why this is urgent,” he said, citing the smoky skies that have covered the Bay Area in recent days....
...North Dakota, for example, has made a purposeful decision to put community banks and credit unions at the heart of its financial sector, sidestepping the four megabanks that now control 44 per cent of the...
...She joins the firm’s San Francisco Bay Area office from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in Palo Alto....
...People working at the NYSE Arca floor in San Francisco’s financial district, for example, should avoid public transport and must be subject to a medical check on entering the building....
...Later, in Silicon Valley, Advanced Micro Devices hosts its 2020 Financial Analyst Day....
...During the recovery from the global financial crisis, numerous short sellers shut down and, right now, the two largest dedicated short selling firms in the world each manage much less than $2bn in assets...
...Intriguingly, the pattern of financial returns made by Gideon Allen & Sons, the smartest backers of whaling ventures, were almost identical to those achieved by Sequoia Capital, one of the best VC firms...
...Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has also organised her “social change organisation” Emerson Collective as an LLC....
...The underlying Libra network, however, would still operate outside the financial mainstream....
...Long before coronavirus, however, many retailers were battling to keep creditors at bay....
...The less hospitable market environment was an important catalyst: “One part of the macro toolbox is missing — volatility,” he told the Financial Times on Thursday....
Making it very hard to leave a company sends a worrying signal to potential recruits
...Lendlease’s net profits after tax plunged by 96 per cent in the first half of its financial year....
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