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...Act, which had invested in Nikola, and former General Motors executive Steve Girsky....
...Gil West, a former chief operating officer of Delta Air Lines and General Motors’ Cruise self-driving car unit, will be replacing him. Instead of enjoying a boom, Hertz is in trouble again....
...China’s largest automaker BYD, SAIC-owned MG Motor and Great Wall Motor and other companies lowered prices later....
...Days after Tesla’s move, Ford Motor’s EV arm and Aito, a Huawei-backed EV brand, followed suit....
...“The performance looks impressive,” said Jeff Chung, an auto analyst with Citigroup, of BYD’s sales growth....
...In fact, he only follows a handful of people, two of whom are Jeff Bezos and José Andrés, the Spanish-born chef....
...Musk suggests this is one quality that separates him from Jeff Bezos, whose own space company, Blue Origin, has fallen behind SpaceX....
...General Motors was also an early suitor, and held intensive talks in the hope that Rivian would help it take on Tesla....
...Richard Waters notes that Jeff Bezos is joining the changing of guard at a crunch time for Big Tech....
...Tech tools — All things electric Thanks to advances in motors and battery tech, electrically powered vehicles are gaining a new generation of fans, writes Fergus Scholes for How To Spend It....
...Zoom Jeff True General Counsel Jeff True’s experience in young and fast-growing tech businesses meant he was well-placed placed to help Zoom ride its transformation in 2020....
...For years it has given Amazon founder Jeff Bezos plenty of scope to build his empire and worry about profits later....
...Last week, Xpeng Motors, a Chinese EV manufacturer, jumped 40 per cent on its stock market debut in New York, benefiting from a “Tesla halo”....
...has struck a $250m investment and truck deal with Iveco owner CNH Industrial, secured a public listing in June through a reverse takeover, and three months ago announced a $2bn partnership with General Motors...
...One thing to start: in an interview with DD’s Ortenca Aliaj, Nikola board member and ValueAct founder Jeff Ubben defended the electric truck start-up and its founder Trevor Milton against allegations of...
...Saudi Arabia implicated in Jeff Bezos phone hack From extraordinary numbers to extraordinary tales....
...Dubbed “NUMMI” — New United Motor Manufacturing Inc — the joint venture achieved defect rates and quality ratings unheard of at GM’s other plants....
...Starboard Value’s Jeff Smith argues the US discount variety chain should stop insisting on pricing every item — from spatulas to sunglasses — at only $1....
...And motor insurers have for some years installed so-called black boxes in cars to analyse how well the driver is performing....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Also, its founder, Jeff Bezos, did not boast about the new markets he planned to conquer before even proving his original business idea could work....
...That began to change after the financial meltdown of 2008, which created millions of newly frugal bargain hunters....
...It set up an autonomous driving test centre in Japan, where it has a partnership with Honda Motor....
...suspending its fleet for several months during an investigation into the incident, Uber is now preparing to get its cars back on the road in autonomous testing mode in the “not too distant future”, according to Jeff...
...Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and chief, said the healthcare system was complex and the companies were entering “into this challenge open-eyed about the degree of difficulty”....
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