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...richard.waters@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Driverless cars in search of Edison lightbulb moment / From Michael Ayres, San Francisco, CA, US...
...Oded Rhone, Edison Energy chief executive, says tech companies have “substantially” accelerated the market for renewables. “Now if there were not tech companies, would it have happened anyway?...
...New York utilities including Consolidated Edison and a division of the UK’s National Grid urged against abandoning the marketplace....
...“In my opinion, Larry is the Thomas Edison of our time,” said Mr Thrun. “He didn’t just invent one thing. He wants to be on the bleeding edge of technology, wherever it is.”...
...Brands in nearly $270m for Barneys (WSJ) KKR buys majority stake in UK ‘altnet’ Hyperoptic (FT) Glasgow Rangers chair given rare ‘cold-shoulder’ by City body (FT) Neptune Energy strikes $250m deal for Edison...
...It was 1912 when Thomas Edison laid out his vision for a new industrial civilisation in a letter to Henry Ford....
...Thomas Edison’s inventions now bring in only 1.5 per cent of the revenues at the company he founded, and GE Appliances was a financial afterthought even by the time Jack Welch, star of a thousand business...
...Alastair George, chief investment strategist at Edison Investment Research, sounds a cautious tone on the tax cuts package, which has yet to be signed into law by the president: [It] appears insufficient...
...In the US, 67m people — nearly a quarter of the adult population — listen to podcasts every month, up 21 per cent from a year ago, according to Edison Research....
...Westinghouse, a New York native who served in the army during the US civil war, landed his first patent — a rotary steam engine — at age 19 and continued to invent for three decades....
...He previously served at Constellation, Direct Energy and Guttman Energy....
...In addition, low interest rates helped yieldcos to borrow at lower costs in order to invest in more renewable projects....
...It’s at the nexus of mobile and over-the-top,” said Adam Symson, chief digital officer at Scripps, referring to new content being delivered directly to viewers and listeners over the internet....
...The success of shows such as Mr Maron’s is lifting the value of podcast advertising, a market estimated at $100m by Edison Research and Triton Digital, an audio technology company....
...The podcast advertising market in the US is estimated at $100m by Edison and Triton Digital, an audio technology company, which are partnering on a new method to measure audience size that can be compared...
...He suggested the same arguments applied to the investment tax credit for solar power, which is scheduled to be cut at the end of 2016....
...Rdio will also roll out on more TV platforms in 2015 as sets play a larger role for music listening at home. “For many people, it is the best sound system that they have at home,” Mr Bay said....
...The S&P 500 was steady at 2,000.12, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.1 per cent to 17,122.01. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite was flat at 4,569.62....
...The pivot to wealth management started 20 years ago when Morgan Stanley launched a strategy review, “Project Edison”, which concluded that the bank needed a platform to distribute the securities it was manufacturing...
...“Investment bank research departments are starting to have to treat fund managers as proper customers, just like retailers do,” says Neil Shah, director at Edison Investment Research, an independent research...
...Mr Percy’s data centres, on an upper floor of 60 Hudson Street, have been running on generator power since Monday night – when an explosion at Consolidated Edison’s electricity station on 14th Street knocked...
...Edison Investment Research said....
...Northeast Utilities System fell 2.5 per cent to $31.27 and Edison International fell 2.2 per cent to $36.30....
...But some Republicans in the Senate are balking at that condition, while also insisting that the confirmation of Mr Obama’s choice for commerce secretary would not proceed unless the free trade agreements...
...Almost two-thirds had been to no concert at all in the past year....
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