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...Here’s his take on the desert festival in Nevada. “Just back from Burning Man. Reminds me of Woodstock with better art (installations) and less good music....
...US election winner: Big Tech Americans are still waiting to hear who will take the White House, with a potential ruling still hours away as results from Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia are counted...
...Richard Waters is the FT’s west coast editor Tools and Weapons: the Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age, by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Brown, Penguin Press, $30, 368 pp...
...Shares in Sturm Ruger are up 2.6 per cent, while American Outdoor Brands, once known as Smith & Wesson, rose 3 per cent....
Casino group’s owners battle with dissident creditors over restructuring plan
...He advocated the firing of Yahoo’s last two chief executives, Carol Bartz and Scott Thompson, and the exit of several board members....
...Bram Smith, executive director at the LSTA, said the Dell deal proved that the loan market was able to absorb big LBO deals of the kind that were common in the years before the credit bubble burst....
...Yahoo shares rose 6.1 per cent to $14.44, despite a verbal broadside from sacked former chief executive Carol Bartz....
...About 95 per cent of the mine’s workers drive down this highway every day from Nevada to work. They don hard hats and coveralls before starting to work with their hands....
...Molycorp’s Mountain Pass mine, which sits on the California-Nevada border, was shut in 2002 when prices plummeted as Chinese production flooded the market. Now, Mr Smith says it could be reopened....
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