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...A 10-minute ride costs less than $10 — with a $5 minimum charge plus $0.90 per mile fees and city tax. Waymo, which also operates in the city, cannot yet charge for rides....
...In 1648 the Hoogheemraadschap Lekdijk Bovendams — which as the name indicates, was responsible for a 20 mile stretch of the river Lek, a branch of the Rhine — borrowed 1,000 Carolus guilders from a local...
...The robots aren’t coming just yet, but they are not a million miles off. Video production by Rory Griffiths...
...Hopin, a virtual events start-up, this month reached a valuation of almost $5.7bn just two years after its founding....
...Fellow Tiger cub Lone Pine’s Cypress hedge fund has lost 27 per cent this year and its Cascade long-only fund is down 32.5 per cent....
...Also nearby, you might be told that Lanyon Quoit is among the oldest human-made structures in Britain, standing proud for 5,000 years. But that’s not strictly true....
...Nonetheless, the group of 5,000 successfully mobilised in under four months to purchase a 40-acre plot of land in Park County, Wyoming, near the Montana state border....
...But unlike that fateful Sex and the City episode, many of the cubs’ hedge fund peers saw the fitness group’s tour de trouble coming from a mile away....
...Additional reporting by Miles Kruppa...
...For example, this newer document lists Geos LLC, a Russian private company headquartered in Novorossiysk, as the seller....
...Additional reporting by Miles Kruppa in San Francisco and Eric Platt in New York...
...Macro funds are up 5.4 per cent this year on average, to the end of October, according to data group HFR....
...The one to watch will be Tiger Global, the fast-moving tech investor DD profiles above, which has built up a stake in JET worth more than 5 per cent....
...The high-risk endeavour will come just two weeks after Bezos officially steps down as chief executive of Amazon.com, the $1.6tn ecommerce group he founded, on July 5....
...On the surface the outsourcer was a mundane man-in-a-van operator providing last-mile services on behalf of European corporate giants such as EDF, Vodafone and Unitymedia....
...Our VC correspondent Miles Kruppa has a profile of Malka and his Ribbit Capital. 5....
...That April 2020 deal also offered investors a chunky 11.5 per cent coupon. This week, Carnival paid exactly half that amount: just 5.75 per cent....
...Visa has called off its deal to buy fintech start-up Plaid for $5.3bn after the US Department of Justice sued to block the transaction on antitrust grounds....
...And that’s only half the story — add the number of hotels whose mortgages have gone to debt collectors, and roughly 4 out of 5 hotels in CMBS deals are in hot water....
...Additional reporting by Miles Kruppa in San Francisco...
...For years, Mr Bezos convinced investors to forgo profits in favour of long-term investments in logistics, robotics and last-mile delivery....
...Additional reporting by Ortenca Aliaj, Miles Kruppa and Francesca Friday...
...(FT) Good publicity LVMH boss Bernard Arnault is expanding his empire to include an unexpected addition — a 5 per cent stake in the struggling French conglomerate Lagardère....
...That was a popular reaction after DD’s Miles Kruppa and James Fontanella-Khan broke the news that the software company founded by Larry Ellison, pictured below, was working with US investors to buy the viral...
...PSEG is backing Orsted of Denmark in building the 1,100-megawatt Ocean Wind project 15 miles off New Jersey’s beaches....
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