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...Second, break-ups between the local operating companies and AT&T long-distance, and the divestiture of Western Electric, which made telephones. Third, mandatory interoperability....
...Job moves Deutsche Bank has appointed BlackRock’s Stephen Fisher as global head of political affairs....
...It extends from transforming how we drive, via electric car company Tesla, or how we think, via his ownership of X, formerly Twitter, to ensuring the survival of the human race with his plans to colonise...
...I think, if you talk to the steel companies or the chemical companies, they all talk about the support that their rivals on the continent are getting....
...He cites Verne, who predicted plausible future technologies like electric submarines and the Taser when he was writing in the mid-1800s....
...Wells Fargo director Theodore F Craver Jr, former boss of the utility Edison International, is also chair of the governance committee at US power company Duke Energy, which says it generates more than a...
...Letters in response to this article: There are alternatives to ripping up the ocean floor / From Donald R Sadoway, John F Elliott Professor Emeritus of Materials Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...Fisher said she had received hate mail related to the ban. “I’ve had a few emails calling me a stupid liberal, I’ve had barbs from people asking ‘have you lost your fucking mind?’’’ said Fisher....
...Toys “R” Us, for instance, fell into restructuring....
...Rival start-up Rivian has already launched its own electric pick-up, and Ford is set to launch an electric version of its F-150 in the spring....
...Letter in response to this article: Copper demand requires radical extraction methods / From Donald R Sadoway, John F Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge...
...of the popular F-series pick-up trucks....
...“Who knows what they have been developing in their R&D departments?” But electric motorcycles clearly have a very long road in front of them....
...But non-tech companies were winners too: consultants Accenture, diagnostics specialist Thermo Fisher and retailer Home Depot all made the top 20....
...Shimao’s dollar bonds due this year went from $71 to $48: Another developer, Guangzhou R&F Properties, said it might miss a repayment next week....
...Other developers came under pressure this week, including Guangzhou R&F, which Moody’s has also downgraded, and Fantasia Group, which was founded by the niece of the country’s former vice-president Zeng...
...(FT) News round-up Billionaire Robert F Smith buys two North Palm Beach homes for $48.19m (WSJ) Crispin Odey: one foot out the door (FT Lex) Italy’s biggest bank posts higher than expected profits (FT...
...Take-off a struggle for Amazon dronesAmazon is laying off dozens of R&D and manufacturing staff working on its much-anticipated delivery drone project, with the company turning to outside help to get its...
...Private equity groups, including Blackstone and H&F alongside Carlyle, KKR and others, took the company private in 2006. In 2011 the group took Nielsen public with a total debt of more than $8bn....
...Needless to say, the hedge fund that gained notoriety last year for taking on both Blackstone’s GSO and Toys R Us employees is now suffering heavy redemptions....
...Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has also organised her “social change organisation” Emerson Collective as an LLC....
...The work has been conducted by engineers at the Shannon R&D facility, which opened in January 2018....
...Caesars, J Crew, Sears, Toys R Us and iHeartMedia are just some of the examples in recent years where pre-bankruptcy wheeling and dealing left creditors cold and looking for vengeance....
...In late August the Shanghai Exchange terminated a $900m corporate bond issuance by R&F Property, a $6bn developer, according to Mingtiandi....
...Its listed arm has off-loaded many of its key overseas development projects to newly-privatised DWCP and announcing a$9.4bn sale of hotel and tourism properties to fellow developers Sunac and R&F in July...
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