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...Danni Hewson, head of financial analysis at AJ Bell, said BYD’s electric cars were “becoming increasingly visible on European roads thanks to keen pricing”....
...Charles Duncan, an analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald, said Novavax and Moderna were at the “opposite end of the bell curve”: Moderna had raised huge amounts on the private market and was backed by big names,...
...Forwarded from Sifted — the week in European start-ups Europe has had the first driverless electric truck on a public road, is on track to get a flying taxi up and running and will soon have a gigafactory...
...Arriving sooner are short-hop taxis that will ferry a few people across a city, adding noise in the skies to the congestion on the roads....
...In an interview with the Financial Times last year, Mr Khosrowshahi acknowledged that it could take years to complete Uber’s road to redemption....
...State support China’s State Council laid out its ambitions in artificial intelligence in 2017, with a road map envisioning an industry worth Rmb1tn ($140bn-plus) by 2030....
...Tears of joy streamed down the children’s faces and, hark, was that the sound of sleigh bells in the air . . .?”...
...Sometimes the odd “tring” of a bell is justified to warn wandering pedestrians of your approach. But cycling down a crowded City street, I heard a huge horn blast that made me stop in my tracks....
...There was an air of suspense, also, as the runway became a game of spot the horror film: Shelley Duvall Shining gilets, Carrie gowns, “Tubular Bells” on the soundtrack and a palette strong on Texas Chainsaw...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on November 21. ©2017 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Other partners include Mooney, a Texas-based light aircraft maker, and Bell Helicopter, which manufactures military aircraft including the Osprey VTOL....
...Shares in the company behind KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell rose nearly 4 per cent in extended trading, after Yum Brands reported a 6 per cent rise in first-quarter same-store sales at its China division and...
...Shares in the company behind KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell rose nearly 4 per cent in extended trading, after the company reported a 6 per cent rise in first quarter same-store sales at its China division,...
...Told that a division bell was “for prayers”, the entrepreneur, who is Jewish, turned to committee chair Frank Field, a prominent Christian, and asked “is that for you or for me?” He got a laugh....
...If the South African calls his bluff, it could leave the deal, not on AC/DC’s infamous “Highway to Hell”, but a road to nowhere....
...She did so by tapping her watch to a Square payment reader at a flower vendor’s stand on the street outside, which was connected to the bell inside the exchange....
...USA, the cable network owned by Comcast’s NBCUniversal, used to be best known as the home of reruns and bland, middle-of-the road dramas....
...They are so busy that they do all the maintenance on their trucks at night, because they cannot afford to have one off the road during the day....
...The lawsuit also raised questions over whether Uber drivers are distracted from the road in front of them by using its app to pick up passengers....
...This posed problems when my iPhone’s GPS thought I was on the other side of the road and again when a film crew had closed off the street to fly a drone (a very San Francisco moment)....
...They weave along the cobbled lanes around the Alhambra at breakneck speed, beeping horns, ringing bells and racing through the narrowest of gaps....
...” ● In this age of digital distractions – tweeting, texting, and reaching level 141 in Candy Crush Saga – we lack the attention span necessary to keep a car on the road....
...In 1969, aged 18, he turned his attention to starting a business selling jeans and bell-bottomed trousers to kids on college campuses, who wanted to emulate their rock and pop star idols....
...The first name it brings to my mind is that of Jim Bell....
...Bell is honest about the challenges her disability has posed but finds grace in even the worst setbacks....
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