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...elaine.moore@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Look both ways before stepping into a driverless car future / From Sheila Hayman, Advisory Council, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy,...
...Private sector allowances range from £900 to £5,500, according to Loughborough University’s Centre for Research in Social Policy, compared with £1,050 to £3,000 in 1988....
...“It’s a more visceral reminder of why this is urgent,” he said, citing the smoky skies that have covered the Bay Area in recent days....
...But other centres of innovation such as Lowell, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit lasted shorter. “Silicon Valley is overdue a disruption. It is not a hotbed of start-ups any more,” he says....
...Iconiq has become a significant investor in data centres, which, though high tech, are relatively low-risk infrastructure investments....
...It would have been the latest centre in a global network that already includes London, Tel Aviv and São Paulo. News of the decision to scrap the project raised more than a few eyebrows....
...“If we’re not committed to it somebody will eventually replace the Bay Area as the next major centre of innovation and it will be a shame on all of us.”...
...The diverging approaches reflect sharply contrasting attitudes to intellectual property in two of Asia’s biggest tech centres: zealously compliant Singapore and China’s traditionally lackadaisical views...
...“Hulu is at the centre of transformation in entertainment,” Mr Freer said in a statement....
...Speaking at a talk to the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association Mr Doctoroff said: “We actually want to build a new city....
...“Now tech money [from the San Francisco Bay Area] has been flowing in and much of that is aimed at the high end.”...
...Life in the resort centres on the private Fisher Island Club, where membership costs $250,000, plus about $20,000 in annual fees....
...Also at $85m, Corcoran is selling a 15-acre gated compound overlooking Mecox Bay in the town of Water Mill in Southampton....
...As we found last year, New York City, as an international wealth and financial centre, has the single biggest concentration of FT 300 member companies, with 22....
...A Harvard-affiliated cancer centre will measure the long-term effects of chemotherapy by asking breast cancer survivors to input information about their energy levels and mood....
...Industry executives and investors have pointed to the relative lack of such “growth” funding as a reason for why Europe’s tech centres fail to produce as many large companies as Silicon Valley....
...“Chicago, like many other cities around the country, is going the way of Europe, where people want to live closer to the centre – particularly the young people,” says the veteran Chicago developer....
...Growing up, Balsillie played a lot of hockey and lacrosse and loved watching Peterborough Petes junior hockey games at Memorial Centre with his father, who had seasons tickets....
...Spotify and its rivals are now centre stage in an industry that has undergone a dramatic transformation....
...Known as the “gateway to the west”, it is now trying to make a name for itself as a centre for start-ups, both homegrown and from far afield....
...The dining area on top has views of Bishop’s Palace gardens and the cathedral, and out towards Palma Bay....
...The deal with Buckeye Partners, an oil logistics company, centres on Corpus Christi, the port city that has become an outlet for oil from the Eagle Ford shale formation....
...The FCA complains that its regulatory remit does not allow it to clear out this scum that’s accumulated along the streets of what would like to be seen as the global centre of finance....
...The US unit was at the centre of an accounting scandal in 2003 that almost bankrupted its parent. “I’m not sure it is especially difficult to crack the US,” says Clive Black, analyst at Shore Capital....
...Although São Paulo remains Brazil’s industrial and financial centre, Rio has been seeking to establish itself as an alternative financial services centre after attracting Direct Edge, the fourth-largest...
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