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...“Stripe has the luxury to go to Thrive, a previous investor, because they have a strong business,” said Robert Le, an analyst at PitchBook. “Not a lot of start-ups have that luxury.”...
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...Richmond, director of Kewalo Marine Laboratory in Hawaii, said this week....
...Some bad bets come with the territory and are easily overshadowed by lucrative investments,” says Robert Mogielnicki, a senior fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington....
...Conservatives Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh sided with the court’s three liberals in the majority opinion....
...American Airlines announced Robert Isom, its longtime president, would replace him on March 31....
...This year, NTSB chair Robert Sumwalt said Tesla had released a “beta version” of its software for testing on public roads with limited oversight....
...This month the island also offered fund managers enough comfort to buy almost $700m of junk bonds issued by Norwegian Cruise Lines....
...That enabled troubled borrowers such as cruise operator Carnival to raise money in the bond market instead....
...It’s an “old-world” investor that has bought into pubs, gyms, petrol stations and cruise ships....
...Robert Kwortnik, associate professor at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration, says that registering in tax havens keeps costs down: “The operational model is more efficient because you can...
...Smart reads Don’t stop the party Carnival executives knew they had a coronavirus outbreak in one of their cruise ships in February....
...Already, there’s a beach club in operation; a Robert Trent Jones-designed golf course is opening today; and they will be joined next year by a full-service marina....
...The exhibition brings together representations of masculinity from the 1960s to the present day from more than 50 leading photographers and film-makers, male and female, including Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy...
...In a 2013 debt dispute, a Chinese creditor had to turn to a South Korean court to seize a cruise ship operated by an HNA subsidiary....
...by stronger demand for trips in the Caribbean, Alaska, Bermuda and Hawaii....
...GM extended its efforts last month, paying more than $1bn to buy Cruise, a start-up specialising in Super Cruise-like technology....
...Adding Cruise is expected to help GM to achieve its aim of developing a fleet of autonomous taxis that Lyft will operate....
...GM on Friday announced it was purchasing Cruise, a San Francisco-based developer of autonomous vehicle systems, for a price that people close to Cruise said was more than $1bn....
...They count among their investors Time Warner, 21st Century Fox, Google Capital, the National Hockey League and NFL team owners Robert Kraft and Jerry Jones....
...It is developing a semi-autonomous system called Super Cruise that takes only the most routine driving — travelling on highways — away from humans....
...After three deals this year, the group now boasts nine wholly owned businesses, a diverse portfolio that runs the gamut from Entertainment Cruises (“North America’s largest dining cruise operator”) to Peco...
...Tiny quantities of metals such as dysprosium are used in many advanced technologies, including mobile phones, car exhaust catalysers, guidance systems for cruise missiles, and wind turbines....
...Jude Hurin, a senior manager at Nevada’s department of motor vehicles involved in approving the Inspiration, says the challenges differ from those for safety-critical innovations such as cruise control....
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