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...The sudden popularity of ChatGPT, used by more than 100mn people as of January, shattered Google’s belief that it had a strong lead in the race to build and commercialise AI....
...Boring problems Elon Musk’s Boring Company has built a tiny loop to move cars through Las Vegas, but workers of the “hyperloop” mass-transit system say its tunnels are packed with chemical sludge, reports...
...Her replacement Ed Breen then agreed a merger between Dow and DuPont and the subsequent break-up of that combined company into three pieces. “Everybody celebrated that,” Peltz said on CNBC....
...Peloton bike, Mirror home workout system or package of Apple products....
...So with Amazon, you have to look product by product. And that means several things. Number one, it’s going to be a hell of an expensive antitrust case....
...by tomorrow, and a knack for annoying a lot of people....
...N26, Stalf and Bux declined to comment on any potential merger talks....
...Tactics such as patent thickets and “product hopping” by launching new drugs based on the original medicine are not barred, as long as a company is careful and employs enough lawyers....
...Jamie SmythAnd this could be ripe for a Texas two-step style mechanism to try and help the company with those claims. There’s also Dow Chemical, which faces 9,000 claims tied to cancer....
...The anointment of Greg Abel as Buffett’s successor has also stoked expectations of more energy investment, as he rose through Berkshire’s energy unit and worked on some of the company’s bigger deals in the...
...“Companies like ours have learned how to create viral products just as the indie brands do.”...
...Some $227bn in equity ETFs was linked to MSCI ESG and climate indices as of year-end, according to a Burton-Taylor spokesperson, up 114 per cent from the end of 2020....
...“Something is lost when the process is mechanised — the pastels are treated as a uniform product and the vibrancy of colour is compromised,” says Margaret....
...The DowDuPont agglomeration might equally be seen as five separate listed companies. Just before the Dow/DuPont merger, DuPont spun off, tax free, to its shareholders, a business called Chemours....
...That should at least buoy rainmakers — employed by banks that are themselves the product of massive acquisition campaigns over the years — who will advise companies on how to better diversify themselves...
...For example, companies such as BASF, Johnson Matthey and Umicore are racing to become producers of electric car battery materials....
...Until now, they have been adequately supplied by a handful of large suppliers such as BYK, Dow and BASF. “Once the supply chain gets pinched, then additives get hit the hardest first,” said Kersting....
...Johnson & Johnson is to spin off its consumer products division, best known for Band-Aids and baby shampoo, as the world’s largest healthcare company seeks to focus on pharmaceuticals and medical devices...
...Asked if S&P could do more to shore up confidence in its products by providing more transparency, one senior employee said “we probably do about as much as we can” already....
...More than $80bn of assets are now benchmarked against its indices by asset managers such as Lyxor, JPMorgan AM and BNY Mellon. “We see this as an opportunity to be advocates for investors....
...The shift towards a healthier portfolio was initiated by PepsiCo’s former chief executive Indra Nooyi and continued by her successor Ramon Laguarta....
...It also expanded through mergers and acquisitions, closing a $17.4bn deal to acquire clinical research company PPD in December....
...DD readers will remember that Abel was the man sitting by Buffett’s side last year in Munger’s absence, which for many signalled his place as successor-in-waiting....
...Estée Lauder’s shares rose as much as 3 per cent in morning trading in New York, while the Dow Jones index was down 0.3 per cent....
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