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...Companies once valued at more than $1bn including Hopin and Convoy were among the casualties. “In some ways, dry powder is a mirage....
...With a fortune of $87bn, Molly Novak can get any luxury she wants — from a convoy of SUVs to a live-in celebrity chef ready to microwave her burritos....
...The others trundled through Belgium and Germany on convoys of trucks and were then ferried to Finland, from where they reached Russia....
...Rivals include traditional freight brokers such as CH Robinson and digital freight start-ups like Convoy in Seattle. Amazon looms large too....
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...Fundraising UK online wealth management pioneer Nutmeg has won another £45m from investors including Goldman Sachs and Hong Kong-based financial advisory group Convoy, paving the way for its Hong Kong launch...
...A convoy of trucks arrived on Thursday carrying food and medicine destined for the impoverished people of Venezuela....
...Abenomics is, in part, the latest incarnation of a convoy system in which everything moves together....
...Mr Musk said that, when three Tesla trucks travel in convoy, the total operating cost per mile “beats rail”....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on June 8 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...If it does not, he and his colleagues will go down in corporate history as the people who drove Uber and its convoy of followers into a leadership dead-end....
...In April six European lorry manufacturers — Volvo, Daimler, Iveco, DAF and Volkswagen’s Scania and MAN brands — took part in an experiment in which they drove in connected convoys along motorways....
...Europe has also been making advances in driverless truck technology, with Volvo, Daimler and Volkswagen organising a convoy across Europe last month....
...Six European truck companies — Volvo, Scania, Daimler, Iveco, DAF and MAN — successfully sent connected self-driving convoys along motorways across the continent....
...But as a symbolic political gesture it is huge, suggesting that the mutual support and trust of the old convoy system have totally broken down....
...Later this year the first self-driving truck convoys — called platoons — will be tested on UK roads after George Osborne, the chancellor, announced plans in the Budget to roll out driverless haulage technology...
...Driverless heavy duty trucks offer the potential for “platooning”, whereby trucks travel in convoy at very close distances behind one another....
...If Google were an airline with a fleet of planes, a haulier operating a convoy of trucks, or a retailer with a chain of stores, rebranding would be more costly and more risky....
...“There were so many of them, it was like a government convoy.” The group profits several times from the same crop, according to traders and farmers who have worked with the jihadis....
...As well as safety, they mention the potential for “platoons” of autonomous trucks driving in convoy to save fuel....
...In April, about 2,500 traditional taxi drivers demonstrated in front of the city’s Pacaembu stadium against the site, where people can hire a car on the internet, before setting off in convoy through the...
...These are typically carried out by armed convoys that slash plants and seize cash. “That’s why we want more regulation,” O’Neill says....
...Gold miners were buoyed by a bout of unease after the government in Kiev said it would refuse entry to a Russian convoy allegedly carrying humanitarian aid....
...On Monday, Kiev agreed to an international humanitarian convoy to the east of the country, but said on Tuesday that it would refuse entry to Russian trucks and consider their arrival as an act of aggression...
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