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...An independent panel revealed that Daihatsu Motor, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor, had been cheating on safety and quality tests for over 30 years, delivering a blow to the auto group’s reputation — the most...
...U-Power last month signed a deal to supply New York-based EV start-up Olympian Motors with its skateboards....
...The test scheme was launched by Cruise, an autonomous vehicle business that is majority owned by General Motors. Like Uber, it has an app that you can use to call a car to meet you....
...The company also brought in Dhivya Suryadevara from General Motors as chief financial officer....
...Analysts have said Nissan, which has an alliance with France’s Renault and Mitsubishi Motors, could be a good fit for Apple....
...No bloodletting in Valley from Holmes and TheranosInstead of seeing the Elizabeth Holmes case as a spur to toughen up due diligence, Silicon Valley is choosing to dismiss it as an outlier, writes Elaine...
...Stripe has poached General Motors’ chief financial officer Dhivya Suryadevara, bolstering its executive team as the San Francisco-based online payments company rides a wave of ecommerce growth....
...Rivian, the electric vehicle maker that has yet to record any meaningful revenue, surged on its Nasdaq debut, with an opening market value of more than $100bn, greater than Ford and General Motors....
...Acquisition Company and its sponsor Brian Kabot over its merger with Momentus Inc, a space infrastructure company, for misleading characterisations....
...Hedge funds muscle into ValleyHedge funds are elbowing their way into Silicon Valley at an unprecedented rate with a record-smashing $153bn worth of investments in private companies in the first six months...
...The Silicon Valley company has been reported to be in talks to acquire its rival GlobalFoundries....
...Tech tools — All things electric Thanks to advances in motors and battery tech, electrically powered vehicles are gaining a new generation of fans, writes Fergus Scholes for How To Spend It....
...Smart reads Diversity and exclusion Silicon Valley executives sometimes pride themselves on diversity, but the data shows that Big Tech campuses lack Black and Hispanic staff, while Asians, though represented...
...Miles Kruppa and Hannah Murphy in San Francisco report Silicon Valley thinks this could be the next Twitter. It can be exhausting trying to stay across this splintering of social media....
...Tesla’s China challenge, Oz lithium mergerChinese carmakers are launching more than a dozen models at the Shanghai motor show this week, in their attempt to topple Tesla’s Model 3 saloon as the country’s...
...However it is owned, TDR’s local pub has become a more pleasant setting in recent years....
...In promising new tech markets, it is common for a winner-take-all mentality to take hold, points out Charles Giancarlo, a veteran Silicon Valley executive....
...Smart reads Apple’s new regime Wall Street and Silicon Valley feared the death of Steve Jobs would foreshadow the end of innovation at Apple....
...He dropped out of Utah Valley State College after one semester, then moved in 2003 to the small Utah city of St George....
...For all these reasons, I made an effort to sound pleasant.”...
...Uber and South Korea’s Hyundai Motor unveiled a prototype of an all-electric, four-passenger air taxi that will take off vertically, have a range of 60 miles and will eventually be upgraded to self-flying...
...The investment in Waymo has been led by Silicon Valley private equity firm Silver Lake, along with sovereign wealth funds Mubadala and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board....
...The documents, filed with the Department of Motor Vehicles in California, which grants permits for autonomous testing in the state, also reveal patchy disclosure about training programmes — prompting calls...
...Before waiting to find out the answer, the VW boss is intent on taking the battle to Silicon Valley....
...He says he is inspired by Fire in the Valley, a book about the Silicon Valley’s early PC pioneers....
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