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...Santos said in a statement that it welcomed the ruling and would continue pipe laying in accordance with its environmental plan....
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...My parents worked in the same industries throughout their careers — my mum for museums and my dad for a company that sold plastic pipes....
...He deftly captures the hypocrisy of the venture when assessing the directors of the 17th-century Dutch trading company that oversaw it in its early years....
...It's targeting investments in companies that do things like run kiosks selling safe water to low-income people, or build water pipe networks to reach poor communities....
...General Catalyst, based in the Boston area, is best known for venture capital investments in companies such as Snap and Stripe....
...Having recently become a grandfather, I am tempted to don a pair of slippers, suck on a pipe, gaze through the window and say something whimsical. I limit myself to the whimsy....
...Kessler says Pipe investing allows him to get closer to the management teams and better understand the science....
...By calling aloud for ventures into the mind’s uncharted territories, he opened a floodgate of opportunities: to a way of thinking, not just of making art....
...Late to the party Japan is betting on semiconductors via a joint venture by government-backed Rapidus and IBM....
...Other water-focused venture funds include Canada’s XPV Water Partners and Amsterdam-based PureTerra....
...Japan-based Osaka Gas owns about 10 per cent of the company, while Jera, a joint venture of Japan’s Chubu Electric Power and Tokyo Electric Power, has 26 per cent....
...Ben Smith, founding editor of BuzzFeed News who now runs media group Semafor, described it to the Financial Times as the end of an era of the sort of “journalism that was built to travel through the pipes...
...You succumb at once to that invigorating, upbeat mix in its Photography Centre, an ambitious venture begun in 2018 and fully inaugurated — four brand new galleries joining the initial three — last week....
...It was the sort of place where the further you venture, the more nature comes out to play....
...Squadron Energy and Grok Ventures, Atlassian founder Cannon-Brookes’ investment vehicle, led a A$210mn fundraising in March last year....
...They include Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Steve Cohen’s Point72 Ventures, QED Investors, ex-Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack and Hernán Kazah, co-founder of Latin America’s biggest venture capital firm, Kaszek...
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...Long mocked as a sci-fi pipe dream, the industry has attracted billions of dollars in private sector funding over the past couple of years....
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...Running my own business was a pipe dream. I chose the name Billion Dollar Boy after my favourite singer, Pharrell Williams, who has a fashion label, Billionaire Boys Club....
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