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...On July 9, B Corp Vital Farms, which produces eco-friendly eggs, filed to raise up to $100m....
...Google-parent Alphabet is shutting down its power-generating kites company Makani, the first closure of a so-called moonshot project since founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepped back from management...
...A flying car start-up backed by Google founder Larry Page has been secretly testing an electric autonomous aircraft for several months in New Zealand, the company revealed on Tuesday....
...It embedded fast food into American diets as the US industrial farm system developed to make $1 cheeseburgers feasible....
...Oracle chairman Larry Ellison’s stake has risen from 23 per cent to 27 per cent over 10 years (it was 39 per cent when the company went public in 1986)....
...In North Dakota, an attempt to put a two-year moratorium on new wind farms made some progress before being rejected by the state’s senate....
...I met a farm boy who, by being away from home and being subjected to the strict, heartless discipline of military life, had cracked under the strain....
...Even before Alexis got pregnant, we would eat a diet low in meat and buy our food from small, local farms.”...
...Years later, he recalled the necessity of invention, as hard times forced his family for instance to fashion its own farm equipment....
...Goldston, who grew up on a farm in Oklahoma, first worked with Johns in 1971....
...“The thing in Europe is that there are not large farms,” Mr Taylor said. “That means you have to be able to make tyres that can go on both the fields and the roads....
...(Financial Times) Summers would face key ‘no’ votes for Fed: At least three Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee are expected to oppose Larry Summers if he’s nominated to chair the Federal Reserve....
...US: Non-farm payrolls....
...Smithfield’s chief executive Larry Pope said he and Shuanghui had discussed a deeper partnership for four years....
...- Some good ideas on infrastructure and profit repatriation from Larry Summers. - The mystery of why Portugal is so doomed. - All quiet on the M&A front. - When the beautiful game turns ugly....
...Farm organisations are calling for tighter regulation of processors and greater traceability of imported products....
...“We are going to make every effort to open on Wednesday, by then it will be more of a logistical than a safety issue,” said Larry Leibowitz, chief operating officer at NYSE Euronext....
...All around are tree-covered mountains, some dotted with small farms and older homesteads, some untouched and part of the protected Yangmingshan National Park....
...David always orders the same thing at LA Farm – a customised salad known as the “Larry David” – so I ask him to recommend something for me. “You’re young, you can eat whatever you want,” he says....
...Larry Page, chief executive of Google, mounted a strong defence of the internet search company’s controversial investment priorities as it reported earnings for the second quarter that revealed an unexpected...
...The advisers delegate their administration and IT requirement to Openwork’s 350 staff, who have used the private cloud to replace their own server farm....
...It’s a commitment that founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are known to take a personal interest in. Others technology groups are increasingly highlighting their green credentials....
...It all has the potential to be a multi-billion-dollar circus, and even supporters in US officialdom are wary of betting the farm on the process....
...From a young age Rose – who has no siblings – helped mind the store and he still has a farm in the state. “My parents had a great work ethic,” he recalls....
...They make an instructive contrast to two other young men who already have had a far more sweeping impact – Sergey Brin and Larry Page....
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