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...“The company still hasn’t found a good commercialisation model,” said Miro Li, founder of the Hong Kong-based brand consultancy Double V. “This will be a problem in the long term.”...
...As we’ve covered previously, the US’s auto insurance rates have soared 24 per cent over the past two years (v BLS data)....
...Chinese companies have also been investing aggressively in developing RISC-V, open-source chip design architecture that could serve as an alternative to Arm’s designs....
...Pushing for higher prices, however, also increases the danger that some customers will consider abandoning Arm altogether and switching to Risc-V, a rival open-source technology, this person said....
...Arrival announced it would merge with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V, another blank cheque company. Arrival may survive to commercialise its delivery van....
...They don’t have the resources, esprit de corps or a history to look back on.”...
...When Vicki Hollub flew Occidental Petroleum’s Gulfstream V jet to Omaha for a meeting with billionaire investor Warren Buffett in April 2019, she needed cash to place a bet....
...Arrival’s deal with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V values the company at $524mn....
...All are B Corp certified — credited with having made a commitment to put social and environmental concerns on an equal footing with financial returns, and to go beyond unverifiable pledges....
...He had made a groundbreaking proposal at the conference, urging US regulators to allow the automating of risk management in financial markets, using the financial plumbing developed for digital assets....
...It says it had helped fund the development of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine....
...Olaf Scholz said the affair had revealed that Germany’s system of financial regulation “needs to be reorganised”. 2....
...At nearly 400ft, the new SpaceX rocket will eventually be taller than the Saturn V that carried Nasa’s Apollo missions to the moon, and its 33 engines will deliver twice the thrust....
...He hasn’t announced a blank-cheque deal since January, when his Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp V announced a tie-up with the digital lender SoFi....
...EToro, which has more than 20m registered users, will combine with Fintech Acquisition Corp V, the special purpose acquisition company set up by banking tycoon Betsy Cohen, in one of the largest Spac deals...
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...Vladimir Putin said he would be vaccinated with the Sputnik V jab on Tuesday....
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...Klein’s Churchill Capital Corp IV, which is merging with Tesla-wannabe Lucid, had the largest short interest of any Spac, at $373m....
...According to a survey of fund managers from Bank of America this month, just 10 per cent expected a V-shaped recovery, while 75 per cent anticipated a U- or W-shaped one....
...Yikes: We presume this is where SoftBank investments WeWork, Oyo and Didi are in this current cycle, having contributed to a ¥1.9tn loss in the Vision Fund over the past financial year....
US defence secretary Mark Esper breaks with Trump over sending troops to quell protests
...“I can’t imagine a complete V-shaped recovery, and it will be more like going back and forth at the bottom of a U-shaped recovery,” Mr Kakiuchi said....
...“There is demand destruction but then the country is recovering,” Mr Vaidya told the Financial Times after reporting a sharp fall in year-on-year net profit in the quarter ended June 30....
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