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...Silicon Valley, on San Francisco's peninsula, is often used as the catch-all phrase representing US West Coast tech, even though Amazon and Microsoft are up in Washington state and its biggest companies...
...Lidl has opened 37 stores in Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia, and plans to have 100 stores along the east coast by next summer....
...It also enhanced Iovine’s reputation, and in the late 1970s he was asked to produce the album Easter for the Patti Smith Group....
...The company has six offshore wind projects operating or in development, including an innovative floating wind turbine park off the coast of Scotland it plans to hook up to a battery system next year....
...Tribune Publishing has rejected an approach for the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune from west coast billionaire Eli Broad, according to people familiar with the matter....
...It has committed to expanding its operations on the US Gulf of Mexico coast, spending $6bn on facilities including a new “cracker” used to produce ethylene....
...“They had the insight that human curation was really important to the experience, that technology by itself wouldn’t produce the deep feeling that people need in music.”...
...Companies have lost hundreds of millions of dollars in failed trials, leading some such as Pfizer and Sanofi to drop out of the race. Others have doubled-down....
...He has embraced risk, most notably when he agreed to produce and release Eminem’s 1999 album, The Slim Shady LP....
...The iPhone maker was trading on the mystique of the US’s West Coast, as well as 21st-century dynamism, for which the company is known, when it used the slogan “Designed by Apple in California” as part of...
...Headquartered in Pennsylvania, both Kobold and RGM Watch Company can lay claim to having been on the front lines of the Made in USA movement since the late 90s....
...“While the FCC would grant full terrestrial rights, its proposal to lower our power and emissions levels could cripple our ability to enter the business,” the company said....
...Tesco found that US shoppers like to pick up and touch their fruit and vegetables, something that proved difficult with Fresh & Easy’s pre-packaged produce....
...We want to support fellow American companies, but it’s also a commercial strategy with big profitmaking potential.” The brand has put this to the test....
...“It was his idea to have 10,000 small convenience stores. One on every junction, of every major city, in the USA,” recalls Mr Smith....
...than most 3G networks but about the same as T-Mobile USA’s HSPA+ network....
...ExxonMobil, the US’s biggest oil company, releases its results on Monday, with analysts hoping for updates in two areas – its acquisition of XTO Energy and moves to enter Ghana’s deepwater Jubilee field....
...As governments try to shrink their public sectors, they have yet to reform their education systems to produce graduates suited for the private sector....
...In the mid-1990s, the Federal Communications Commission repealed longstanding regulations that restricted the networks’ ability to own and produce their own programmes....
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