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...Koch was 11,000 miles away in Panama, where he’d co-founded the company Ocean Builders with Elwartowski and a Canadian tech entrepreneur named Grant Romundt....
...Ferguson, the former UK company which moved its listing to New York last year, has had a good year, as have other stocks such as Trane Technologies and Comfort Systems....
...Even where it has a monopoly or duopoly position in ride-hailing, it is not clear that its service has clear cost/speed/comfort/convenience advantages over alternatives such as bicycles, buses, subways and...
...This embrace of cinemas by the company that has thoroughly disrupted Hollywood may seem puzzling, especially at a time when other tech companies are discovering the charms of the box office....
...Even if, as speculated, the European Commission clears the deal next week, that will be down to its greater comfort with behavioural remedies, where it is Europe that looks more like the outlier globally...
...In early June we noted that, in terms of their financial profile, the big techs are a heterogeneous bunch....
...But EU approval is limited comfort for companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft: the emerging Anglo-American approach to competition enforcement is a feisty enough alternative....
...It was entertaining to watch movie clips, view photos and take a call, and I was surprised by the clarity and comfort of simply reading a PDF document....
...Elsewhere in tech There have been a lot of reviews of the Apple Vision Pro headsets this week....
...The very top spot is occupied by the sole big tech company to avoid mass lay-offs....
...Carmakers are used to building mechanical and electronic devices but EVs rely far more on software....
...The situation was more extreme for technical businesses: two-thirds of groups in the electrical equipment, mechanical engineering and carmaking industries could not fill vacancies....
...That might give some comfort to investors after this week’s battering....
...Tech tools — Logitech MX Mechanical Logitech has expanded its Master Series of high-end peripherals with two new mechanical keyboards — the full-size MX Mechanical and minimalist MX Mechanical Mini — and...
...“China is going to dominate labour and tech production for another 20 years.” The diversification challenge No other Big Tech company shares Apple’s level of exposure to China....
...We're setting it such that it is at a mechanical level, at a physical level, you can run away from it. [LAUGHTER] And most likely overpower it. So hopefully, that doesn't ever happen....
...When YouTube took a more aggressive stance on removing videos in 2017, puppies were brought into the office to comfort staff....
...A case in point was Musk’s demand this week that all Tesla and SpaceX workers give up the comforts of working from home and return to the office (factory workers at the companies never had any choice)....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on June 1 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...If a recession does end up sinking hardware sales, Oprah Winfrey’s 2019 reminder of Apple’s global reach in services could provide comfort to investors: “They’re in a billion pockets, y’all.”...
...But like Peloton, several other high-growth tech darlings such as Spotify, Beyond Meat and Affirm issued convertible bonds without coupons....
...Kaisheng’s smart tech has raised yields sixfold....
...Meta has 17,000 employees working on “metaverse” tech, with a budget of about $3bn per quarter....
...The play of forces between tech companies, record labels, artists and legislators is in constant flux: sometimes antagonistic, at other times co-operative....
...It boasts a multitude of aural functions including a white-noise machine, meditation and breathing exercises, gong-infused sound baths, and other background comforts including chirruping cicadas and a crackling...
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