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...“This has been a big theme this year in auto; everyone has had to step back from the euphoria”....
...The company was founded just six years ago, when the site of its auto factory two hours from Hanoi was swampland....
...He had just landed in Los Angeles ready to begin his senior year at the University of Southern California when Antoine got a hold of him....
...The California-based company, which specialises in technology investments, will buy part of the stakes held by the current owners, private equity firm CVC and the Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC, leaving...
...Cruise is also worth more than $30bn and last week received the first permit from California regulators to operate a driverless passenger service in the state....
...Such is the difficult balancing act for the investment chief of the largest US state pension system, California’s nearly $400bn Public Employees’ Retirement System....
...Tech companies fear that these state laws could become the default for the entire US, in the same way that California’s legislation regulating auto emissions became the national standard, because companies...
...Google executives say these different auto-suggestion patterns arose because the company has a policy of removing offensive auto-predictions....
...One of the first is expected to be Mountain View, California, where Alphabet, Waymo’s parent company, is based....
...Auto components maker Delphi has also made a bold move into the market with its $450m purchase last month of nuTonomy, an autonomous vehicle start-up based in Boston....
...They’ve been good at tapping the market for growth,” said Ben Kallo, an auto analyst at Baird....
...The growth of parallel car imports will put further pressure on car companies in the world’s largest auto market....
...At this Fortune 500 chain of “auto superstores”, the traditional setting where “the seller would look at the computer screen and the buyer at the computer’s backside”, has given way to a slick operation,...
...In September 1972 two computer engineers went to a bar in California where they were regulars. They had with them a rudimentary electronic tennis game they had been developing....
...Ravi Shanker, Morgan Stanley Ravi Shanker is lead equity analyst for the North American autos & auto-related industry....
...Such auto-forwarding allows easier switching to rival services and, with more than 500m users, Facebook represents a threat to the existing players....
...MMC was founded by Mr Penske, whose father Roger Penske controls a sprawling auto empire that includes the Penske racing team and the Penske truck and leasing company....
...The Obama administration’s auto industry task force also played an active role in putting together the deal with the private equity group....
...Delphi and GM – backed by the Obama administration’s auto industry task force – accepted a bid from Platinum Equity, a California-based private equity firm, last month....
...“The proposed transaction was secretly negotiated with GM, Platinum and the US Treasury’s auto taskforce – while a court-ordered mediation was in process – without anything remotely resembling a proper mergers...
...its backers have accused a group of hedge funds of holding General Motors and the US government to ransom by challenging a deal to sell the bulk of the bankrupt parts maker’s assets to Platinum Equity, a California-based...
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...Wal-Mart, the largest US retailer, already operates more than 4,000 pharmacies at its superstores and warehouse clubs across the US....
...Following the deal, McClatchy stuck to its traditional strategy by retaining papers in fast-growing markets such as California and Florida....
...Last November the company announced its first contract with Japan’s Sumitomo and an unnamed Asian auto manufacturer....
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