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...Founded by former Virgin Media executives Eamonn O’Hare and Robert Samuelson, Zegona has played a role in overhauling the Spanish telecoms market, helping facilitate the sale of Spain’s Euskaltel to its...
...Series B start-ups were valued at about $84mn, 58 per cent higher than 2019....
...When a courier received a receipt, all they saw was an anonymised route from A to B, alongside the number of miles and what they were paid....
...Sometimes you can see the trails of hares that come to box on the dawn beach (shingle remembers footprints far longer than sand)....
...Halla Tómasdóttir, chief executive of The B Team coalition of pro-climate action businesses, is a COP newcomer but says the need for rewiring is “blatantly evident”....
...While Källenius refused to name the models that would be phased out, people close to the company have suggested that Mercedes will eventually axe its A and B-class ranges....
...Wildlife sightings are common, including Arctic hares, caribou and musk ox. Camps include the shores of a glacial lake, and the edge of the Russell Glacier....
...The high street is minuscule, but there has been a flourishing of B&Bs and guest houses to cater to the year-long calendar of events. New people keep moving to the area, too....
...“It’s about thinking where you look, how you play the different markets,” says Kabir Narang, a partner at B Capital Group, an investment firm active across Asia....
...I mean, is there a plan B? There is a plan B. And we will have to live with it....
...Food delivery service DoorDash is being sued in the US while problems beset Oyo and Ola in India. Soon it will be hard to find a tech company that isn’t taking the “platform approach”....
...Ian Hares, UKAR chief executive, said: “This is a significant step in the reduction and simplification of our balance sheet....
...Elsa B Kania sounds the alarm in this report on how the US risks losing “a critical competitive advantage” in 5G telecoms....
...Elsa B. Kania at the Center for a New American Security looks in a report at how Artificial Intelligence is becoming an area of military US-China competition....
...The company is still raising new funding to close its B-round. Smart data SoftBank has made a lot of big bets on transport....
...SoftBank Ventures is now buying into the concept, participating in an additional $30m financing to bring Carro’s Series B round to a total of $90m....
...Uber engages in price wars with rivals around the world, from Lyft in its home market to Ola in India and Didi Chuxing in Latin America....
...He has recently bought a former Victorian B&B, Kerrow House, just south of the village of Cannich, which will be our base....
...Students qualify for Chicago’s fully-funded Star Scholarship if they get a grade-point average of 3.0 or higher — roughly equivalent to a B grade....
...Passengers routinely had to take short flights on regional jets to hubs such as Chicago O’Hare, connecting through to destinations on larger aircraft....
...With his son and daughter-in-law, Ola and Anna, co-authors of the book, he developed software to convey complex data over time by representing countries as moving bubbles scaled to population size....
...When asked why the loans would attract buyers, Mr Hares pointed to the yields available on the March transaction, where the B&B mortgages were sold to insurer Prudential and private equity firm Blackstone...
...Instead of employing a maid and a driver, the well-off can now book a cleaner from an app such as Urban Clap, or a car from Uber or local rival Ola....
...According to W.B. Yeats, it was in fact Wilde’s fiercely nationalistic mother who told her son she would never speak to him again if he fled (and thereby evaded martyrdom in an English jail)....
...Uber no longer wants just to deliver you or your dinner from point A to point B....
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