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...Following pressure from activists, BlackRock joined Climate Action 100+, which chivvies energy companies to cut emissions and announced new green funds. Some see that as good stewardship....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 4 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...Silver Run Acquisition Corp II, which has since bought two energy companies, raised more than $1bn in the year’s biggest Spac listing....
...Other poor investments in TPG V include Washington Mutual, and the former TXU, now renamed Energy Future Holdings, the largest buyout ever, which filed for bankruptcy protection in April....
...In the past 12 months, the materials sector has returned less than 2 per cent and was one of the worst performing sectors on the US benchmark, after energy and telecom services....
...energy sources....
...On models v celebrities: “Models on a cover just don’t sell. But it was always true that only a certain kind of model could really sell on a cover....
...But he said the energy density of these batteries – they can store considerably more electrical charge in a smaller and lighter package than alternative technologies – was important to Boeing....
...Energy Future Holdings Corp., previously called TXU Corp., is lining up loans to keep two subsidiaries operating during bankruptcy proceedings after months of talks have failed to produce an agreement with...
...The line up is: Portugal v Sweden, France v Ukraine, Greece v Romania and Iceland v Croatia PlayStation 4 launches Sony launches its PlayStation 4 in the US....
...Although there are branded fuels such as Total’s Excellium and Royal Dutch Shell’s V-Power, no one is ever going to wait in line for hours to buy the new product....
...A new version of its CR-V small SUV begins production in September, and it plans to renew its small Jazz at a later date....
...In India, Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries spent close to $3bn last year on stakes in energy producers such as Atlas Energy and Pioneer Natural Resources of the US....
...(The sexual assault on Lara Logan, the CBS correspondent, is an entirely different matter.)...
...The estimated value of the investments was detailed in a report dated May 28 sent to investors in the TPG Partners V fund....
...He no longer owns Idol and five years ago sold his company, 19 Entertainment, to media group CKX Inc....
...He remembers uncapping a black marker to write: R squared over A is V+, in what he calls a type of epiphany....
...“Culturally now, under the new administration at Microsoft, I see all their energies going into being successful in the consumer space.”...
...There was further volatility in commodities on Thursday, and energy producers fell as the price of oil continued the previous sessions’ declines....
...But it is struggling with V-water, PepsiCo’s vitamin water brand, which Britvic makes and distributes. V-water is less suited to a recession as it is high-priced in a relatively new category....
...Related links: Banks, energy and emerging markets, oh my – FT Alphaville Fitch warns on emerging markets – FT Alphaville...
...The company’s Luyanda Mpahlwa and Mphethi Morojele presented designs for low-income housing in Cape Town townships that feature energy efficient timber and sandbag frames and cost only R50,000 (£3,400) each...
...ICICI’s managing director, K V Kamath, called the rumours “baseless and malicious”....
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