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...It contributed almost 50 per cent of SoftBank’s $100bn Vision Fund in 2016, made a $3.5bn investment in Uber in 2016 and more than $1bn in electric-car maker Lucid Motors in 2018....
...The month before he shipped welding electrodes, insulation silicone and generators to his base in CAR....
...It’s also unclear how a Biden Department of Justice would flex its antitrust muscles. That’s good news (at least for now) for Amazon, Google and Facebook....
...“It certainly surprised me,” said Sebastian Thrun, who started Google’s driverless car project, and more recently has been running Kitty Hawk, a flying car company backed by Mr Page, adding that Mr Page...
...Mr Levandowski is accused of downloading confidential files about Google’s self-driving car project before leaving to set up his own business in the same field....
...One night Bob Grossmann of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) was driving through a neighbourhood of Philadelphia dubbed “the Badlands”. At a red light two men walked towards his car....
...Skip the jokes about the unlikeliness of Asia’s richest men travelling in an American muscle car and Hong Kong’s bankers, investors and lawyers could find out soon....
...The state flexed its financial muscle through a wide range of corporate and royal investments....
...Buy-out rival Charterhouse Capital Partners took UK washroom services company PHS Group private in 2005, four years after listing it....
...All this is fuelling the sale of everything from cars to houses....
...While car companies and brokerages are very different beasts, one theme may fit both: once some smaller rivals establish themselves as viable alternatives, size and past glory alone do little to protect...
...Geely International for example signed a $40m deal earlier this year with Uruguay’s Nordex to produce cars precisely for this reason....
...This financial muscle is likely to take on even greater significance as donations to Labour have fallen sharply in the wake of the “cash for honours” controversy....
...In 1998 – the year of Daimler’s takeover – many questioned whether German business practices could be grafted on to a company with an entrenched American union culture and problems endemic to the US car...
...A larger footprint brings the obvious benefits of greater scale - allowing companies to seal better deals with global hotel chains, airlines and car-hire firms, while reducing technology costs....
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