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...In October, he spoke at the “Davos in the desert” conference in Riyadh and had lunch with Princess Reema bint Bandar al-Saud, the Saudi ambassador to the US....
...This is just one of the storm of jokes to have poured on this year’s festival in the Nevada desert in the wake of rain, mud and fake news about an Ebola outbreak....
...McAdam’s background in selling prefab steel structures encouraged his belief that the inhospitable desert rocks offered an ideal environment to create what he calls a “lonely-planet experience”....
...It’s worth remembering that capitalism’s titans including Jamie Dimon, Stephen Schwarzman and David Solomon were back at Saudi Arabia’s “Davos in the Desert” conference last month....
...The billionaire deputy prime minister of the UAE controls the club via Newton Investment Development LLC, a company registered in Abu Dhabi....
...The proposal is due to be discussed at a board meeting of Oyu Tolgoi LLC....
...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....
...Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder-turned-private space entrepreneur and philanthropist, reached the lower reaches of space over the West Texas desert early on Tuesday, fulfilling a boyhood dream and ending...
...Asked by Bezos what she planned to say once the Blue Origin craft touches down in the west Texas desert, Funk replied: “I will say, ‘Honey, that’s the best thing that ever happened to me!’”...
...Rio has funded Oyu Tolgoi LLC, the joint venture company developing the project, through shareholder loans....
...Branson, 70, is scheduled to reach the edge of space over the New Mexico desert early on Sunday morning local time, riding on the VSS Unity....
...TRQ in turns owns 66 per cent of Oyu Tolgoi LLC, with the rest controlled by the government of Mongolia....
...Instead it owns 50.8 per cent of TRQ, which in turn owns 66 per cent of Oyu Tolgoi LLC....
...Forwarded from Sifted — the European start-up week French entrepreneur Barbara Belvisi is building sustainable habitats, starting in the Mojave Desert in California....
...Losing the local paper The 121-year-old Warroad Pioneer is one of about 2,000 newspapers that have closed in the US over the past 15 years amid a disturbing trend that has been dubbed “The Expanding News Desert...
...The phased reduction in the interchange fee, which Link said on Wednesday would start in July, has prompted cash machine operators to warn about the risk of creating “ATM deserts” where people will be unable...
...It did not fall substantially until Operation Desert Storm was under way, and Phibro and Mr Hall made out like bandits....
...In 2017, a Bill Gates-run investment company spent $80m on a piece of Arizona desert land to build a “smart city”, tentatively called Belmont....
...While Naspers will dominate the NewCo by owning 75 per cent, it touts the vehicle as a way to end another driver of the discount....
...Half of the NewCo could be worth between $6.1bn and $11.8bn, depending on what valuation it attracts....
...Earlier this month, the Mongolian government ended a deal that has allowed Rio to source power for the mine, located in the south Gobi Desert, from China....
...Meantime the authorities in London, with an eye on oil-rich desert sands and a share of the proposed Saudi Aramco new issue, are sorely tempted to become more permissive on this and other scores....
...Members of the public taking part in a Waymo trial in the desert city in the US south-west will be able to summon the vehicles through a ride-hailing app “in the next few months”, the company said....
...It has raised concerns about due process in the kingdom at a time when executives were studying proposals to invest in some of the heir-apparent’s grandiose projects, not least a $500bn city in the desert...
...Eventually, the minivans are intended to cover the entire Phoenix metropolitan area, a region the size of Greater London but far easier for a robot vehicle to navigate thanks to the desert climate and regular...
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