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...In the 12 months to the end of June, fusion companies raised $2.83bn in investment, according to the Fusion Industry Association, bringing total private sector investment to date to almost $4.9bn....
...Bitwise has enlisted the pitchman from Dos Equis’s “The Most Interesting Man in the World” ad campaign, Franklin Templeton’s X account last month temporarily endowed its logo with laser eyes, a popular crypto...
...But the cost-benefit analysis would favour more investment in fusion even if it had just a 50 per cent chance of coming to fruition....
...Multiple media outlets have published stories mocking the sector for its failings after billions of dollars of investment....
...That spurred both banks and investment groups to modernise their trading infrastructure....
...We brought fast internet connectivity for our digital publishing to the refurbished building but nothing more than laser printers for physical publishing....
...Private equity firms tend to stay away from companies with high growth and low profits as they prefer to invest in cash flow-strong targets that allow them to raise sufficient debt to justify their investment...
...At eight years old and backed by more than $1bn of investment, the company is by far the oldest and best funded of its peers....
...A €637m loan from Coherent, a laser company, for example, was repriced from 3.5 per cent to 2.25 per cent over Euribor....
...Propelled by a laser beam boost, each StarChip would travel at 134m miles per hour. Traditional spacecraft would take some 30,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri....
...Forwarded Snapchat overtakes Instagram …as the app of choice for US teens, according to a new spring survey by investment bank Piper Jaffray....
...See also Azzedine Alaïa laser-cut tote (£2,890, net-a-porter.com). Summer game There’s something about the sun that raises the competitive heat and we are witnessing the return of bat-and-ball games....
...Although laser fusion is expensive “big science”, it is vying for public investment with an even more expensive approach: magnetic fusion....
...While they have also lagged behind the wider market in terms of median revenue growth, they have kept pace in terms of profit expansion – a sign that private equity’s laser-like focus on costs and efficiency...
...But even laser-guided surgical instruments are not always entirely safe....
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