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...V, E, S, P, A: five letters with the power to summon a tourist-brochure-perfect Italy....
...Its electric vehicle and battery sectors are also world leaders, but not all its solutions are environmentally friendly....
...Although its parent company, Interpublic Group Cos Inc, installed female leadership at the Martin Agency, IPG’s board remained the same....
...On May 3, 2018, the Company and its subsidiary Tesla Motors Netherlands B.V. entered into the Ninth Amendment (the “Ninth Amendment”) to the Credit Agreement....
...Subscribe | Group subscriptions Nissan is transferring technology to Thailand in the hopes of facilitating a transition to electric vehicles, a field where the company is a step ahead of its Japanese peers...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 4 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...In the age of the PC, it was all about Intel v Advanced Micro Devices, with the former supplying processors for four out of five computers sold and AMD mopping up most of the remainder....
...Others end, to borrow a song from Ms Whitman’s favourite musical genre, in “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”. The Lex team is interested in hearing more from readers. Has Meg Whitman finished her work at HPE?...
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...Early buyers of electric cars in the 1990s coined a term to describe the gnawing dread that their battery might run out before they got home: “range anxiety”....
.... —————- Jeff Immelt, the chairman and chief executive of General Electric, warned in May of the dangers of a raucous US presidential election and a rise of protectionism....
...Last year, a Google car rounded a corner to find a woman in an electric wheelchair chasing a duck with a broom in the middle of the road....
...Electric and Walmart — and contrasted each with a less successful rival....
...“Are friends electric? Only mine’s broke down,” once sang Gary Numan about a prostitute service robot of the future....
...Robert Peck, an analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, says Yelp had been a “painful stock”....
...The company installed insider Art Peck at the helm earlier this year in an effort to revive sales. Gap shares, which have climbed 5 per cent in the past year, declined nearly 4 per cent to $41.14....
...Its Chevrolet Bolt concept car, revealed on Monday, highlighted the company’s determination to challenge Elon Musk’s Tesla in the growing electric vehicle market....
...In my last column, I described the larger successor to the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey that is being developed by Bell Helicopter along with Lockheed Martin and a clutch of other specialist companies....
...Eventually, he hopes, the car companies and even oil companies will embrace fuel choice. He sees the barriers more as problems of corporate inertia and ignorance than of opposing interests....
...Similarly, Tesla Motors, the electric carmaker, sees placing its stores in “high-visibility” locations such as shopping centres as helping to normalise electric cars....
...After all, this is the massive battery-making plant that is meant to cement Tesla’s rise as the world’s first mass-market electric car maker....
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...Mr Buffett invests via his ownership of insurance company Berkshire Hathaway. Top shareholdings: Coca-Cola; ConocoPhillips; DirecTV; GlaxoSmithKline; General Electric; IBM....
...“We are creating a brand that reflects the company’s heritage.”...
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