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...In 2022, these funds raked in a net $10.9bn in North America, up from what had been a record $4.1bn the previous year, according to data from FactSet....
...That would be a dangerous concentration of power....
...“Pipelines, power lines, bridge inspections, anything linear,” he said....
...Patagonia v Donald Trump Late last year visitors to Patagonia’s website were greeted by a black page which stated “The President Stole Your Land.”...
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...Even before Congress passed the recent tax cuts, the US saw two successive quarters of double-digit annualised growth in corporate spending on equipment....
...How Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, has gone about consolidating political power in his kingdom (let’s call it the, “Putting on the Ritz” strategy) and what he is doing with that power...
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...Bayer chief executive Werner Baumann said in May that almost 60 per cent of Monsanto’s revenues are in the Americas, whereas the Germany company is much bigger in Europe and Asia....
...Amazonfresh v Ocado Brooke Masters has been comparing Amazon’s Fresh grocery delivery service, launched in the UK this week, with her regular home deliveries from Ocado. Fresh had one key flaw....
...In the south-western US, and in other sunny parts of the world including the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, solar power is increasingly attractive....
...The Tricorder XPrize is down to seven finalists now, including teams from India and Taiwan as well as north America....
...He talks quietly and articulately in an accent unaffected by two decades in America....
...(FT) Journalism v Silicon Valley The media has lost control of production and distribution to the opaque algorithms of Google and Facebook....
...Its success has seen San Francisco taxi rides fall by two-thirds in less than two years and caused Hailo, a London-based taxi app, to exit North America complaining it was impossible to compete with Uber...
...The first phones to feature ultra high-definition (so-called 4K) screens are expected before the end of the year....
...ultra-efficient in connecting the different banks of processors to one another for parallel computing....
...Although there are branded fuels such as Total’s Excellium and Royal Dutch Shell’s V-Power, no one is ever going to wait in line for hours to buy the new product....
...And in an unprecedented move for this ultra-competitive industry, Michelin offered licences for the PAX System technology....
...Among the companies that back on to the St Mellons golf course is IQE, which makes ultra-thin wafers that are the base for semiconductor chips used smartphones, solar panels, power converters and optical...
...Even boring old North America saw revenues up by a third versus 2010. Order backlogs are at record levels and management has revised up sales and profits for this year and next. Can it last?...
...They compete for attention from the top, for protection, for funds, for power....
...With bigger items, like farming equipment, industrial machinery etc, the savings are naturally much, much greater....
...Renault may pull out of ultra-low cost car project with Bajaj It’s troubles galore for the ultra-low-cost car (ULC) project of Bajaj-Renault-Nissan alliance , that was expected to spring a rival to the Tata...
...Apple may have put the traditional powers of the PC industry in the shade of late with breakout products such as the iPhone, the iPad and its ultra-thin MacBook Air....
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