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...“The calls have been coming in today like airplanes stacked on a snowy day at O’Hare airport,” said one senior banker, referring to Chicago’s busy aviation hub....
...Follow the money Aviation tycoon Patrick Hansen fought against new EU anti-money-laundering rules and won....
...Silicon Valley loves a snappy marketing slogan....
...The approval from the Federal Aviation Authority sent Galactic’s shares up by 37 per cent in morning trading in New York. 3....
...And what will be the status of the aviation industry when we do?...
...Investors gobbled up Silicon Valley’s hottest start-ups The IPO floodgates for Silicon Valley’s long list of privately owned unicorns opened up in 2020....
...In the UK, pub chain Marston’s, private jet services group Signature Aviation and power supplier Aggreko are among the listed companies that buyout groups have targeted for potential take-privates since...
...(FT) A turning point for Japan Inc’s fortunes?...
...But Pichai says that living through last year’s California wildfires — which darkened the skies across Silicon Valley with smoke and ash for days — convinced him of the urgency....
...And William Wellman’s 1927 aviation epic Wings, the last of the great silent movies, won the first ever Oscars....
...(FT) Jack Dorsey’s day of reckoning One Wall Street agitator hasn’t bought into Silicon Valley’s “cult of the founder”....
...Yet as Uber itself admits, there are only a few hundred helicopters made every year — “nothing close to the scale that we need”, said Eric Allison, Uber’s head of aviation programmes....
...“I’m very excited a big partner like Uber is in this space,” said Maryanna Saenko, an investor at DFJ, a Silicon Valley venture-capital company that has previously backed Tesla and SpaceX....
...“When you look at the history of African-American giving, it’s been used both for social uplift and social protest,” says Emmett Carson, founding chief executive of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation...
...Freight, petrochemicals, aviation and shipping comprise the rest and will not be so easily electrified....
...He re-registered Rocket Lab as a US company in 2013, as it began attracting significant funding from Silicon Valley....
...Flying cars have been a Silicon Valley dream for decades and the past year has seen a flurry of new investment....
...GE has thrived in highly regulated sectors including aviation and healthcare....
...Airbus last month said that it could start testing a flying car as soon as this year, while Silicon Valley-based start-ups such as Kitty Hawk and Zee Aero are also working on the problem....
...Silicon Valley technologists have become obsessed with transportation, from driverless cars and superfast trains to space travel....
...It follows a spate of negative headlines that have dented its image as one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious workplaces....
...Large Silicon Valley tech companies and digital advertising agencies are opening offices 20 minutes’ drive away in Playa Vista, on the old industrial site where aviation pioneer Howard Hughes built the Spruce...
...The Federal Aviation Administration said on Wednesday that it has approved an application by Moon Express to land a craft on the moon next year....
...“We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.”...
...It was the largest commercial drone to win approval from the Federation Aviation Administration, with a body that is 2.7m long, 1.1m tall and weighs 64kg....
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