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...The deal will add 7MA’s approximately 30 financial professionals to Houlihan Lokey’s IT investment banking team as well as a new office in Charlotte, North Carolina....
...The pilot will produce hydrogen using power from wind turbines in the North Sea, with the goal of converting Centrica’s nearby natural gas storage facility into the world’s largest hydrogen container....
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...Using less packaging on just one brand of toys could save $2.4mn a year, Scott observed....
...This month, Maya Wiley, a former legal adviser to Mr de Blasio, threw her cap into the ring — but made a point of not mentioning her former boss....
...The company now has three factories and more than 1,200 employees in China, supplying equipment and providing fabrication services to clients in North America, Japan and Europe....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...In a paper released last month, OECD economists linked the insufficient diffusion of new technologies to weak overall productivity growth....
...Separately, Apollo and Bain are in discussions with listed packaging maker RPC about a potential buyout....
...United Microelectronics Corporation rose 2.6 per cent. Other companies linked to the sector, including Advanced Semiconductor Engineering and Powertech Technology were also higher....
...A General Motors president once famously said that what was good for his company was good for America. Does Apple believe it is ready to take on the same mantle?...
...Amazon has also been testing a no-checkout convenience store, Amazon Go, which rings up a bill automatically as customers pick items off the shelves....
...Technology companies such as Baidu have also made forays into Latin America’s largest economy. Deals involving Chinese companies have exceeded $10bn this year and in 2016, according to Dealogic....
...Powerflute has recycled paper “coreboard” mills in Finland, France and North America and makes high grade packaging papers used for transporting fruit and veg at a mill in Finland....
...“The acceleration of travel and technology and telecommunications — together with a global economy that depends on a global supply chain — makes it self-defeating ultimately for those who seek to reverse...
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...“We have to adapt,” said JJ Abrams at CinemaCon, to what he called the “age of piracy, digital technology and disruption”....
...In 1996, a landmark ruling in the case of Bernstein v. Department of Justice established that computer code was free speech, protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution....
...She has just completed her first Google search, while her baby daughter gnawed at the corner of the Android phone’s packaging....
...Tech tie-ins with foreign collaborators ring a sonorous bell....
...Tax is lower elsewhere, they argue, because bread-and-butter assembly, packaging and distribution operations contribute little to profits....
...The most public incident of cyber industrial crime was exposed when Europol smashed a drugs ring last year that was hacking into the control systems of the Belgian port of Antwerp, to move containers holding...
...The other factor is technology....
...There is a certain irony, Mr Lamb notes, in corporations that have encouraged consumers to be reliant on their devices now having to tread more carefully as a result....
...Defence lawyers argued a leading 1983 Supreme Court decision called Dirks v. SEC was the guiding principle....
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