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...He says 23 of the major 26 global automakers, including General Motors, BMW, Renault, Volvo and Honda, are partners....
...the legal complexities of whether it was possible for SoftBank to revise the terms of its $23bn stock repurchase programme, while the company’s board was also finalising the sale of its stake in the US carrier...
...The complete rethink led to a skateboard design with in-axle motors. The familiar UPS van shape, with its storage over the driver’s head, remains but it is sleeker and has a larger window....
...One small aside on corporate-speak: what on earth is a “culture carrier”?...
...Lex says most of SoftBank’s net income gains came from one-off items, such as merging its US wireless carrier Sprint with rival T-Mobile. 2....
...time the US government pumped billions of dollars into an industry to deal with an economic crisis, it effectively took over two of the nation’s largest carmakers, securing large equity stakes in General Motors...
...“The top four property & casualty [insurance] carriers in the US were established in and around the great depression and their product offering hasn’t changed a whole lot since then.”...
...It set up an autonomous driving test centre in Japan, where it has a partnership with Honda Motor....
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...In fact, only 800 of those jobs were scheduled to move, Carrier said....
...Japan’s Toyota Motor has long been known for squirrelling away cash....
...Its investors include General Motors, Andreessen Horowitz and Didi Chuxing, a Chinese ride-sharing company....
...SoftBank Group was the first of Japan’s wireless carriers to use Huawei products....
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...When Mr Trump as president-elect started going after individual companies for building factories abroad, two targets — Carrier and Ford — elected to bend, in Carrier’s case with a hefty tax bribe from its...
...During the campaign, he threatened companies like Carrier with punitive taxes if they set up operations abroad. Bribing them to desist is as bad....
...They also note: The self-driving vehicles being pioneered by Tesla Motors Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and others are poised to dramatically lower the cost of taxis, potentially making them cheaper than...
...In fact, more than half of the cars sold in the UK in the past two years went to companies and rental groups, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders....
...And for China Inc as a whole, the news was even worse....
...General Motors’ OnStar service offers 4G LTE that allows streaming at 10 times the speed of 3G for up to seven in-car devices. 1....
...Coming deals include military systems developer LIG Nex1, budget carrier Jeju Air, Lotte Data Communication, SK Lubricants and Celltrion Healthcare....
...For some time Tata Motors has been the story of a struggling Indian car business being propped up by a British revival story, Jaguar Land Rover....
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