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...‘Perfect scenario’ Those look like V-shaped projections, Andrew Glenn thought to himself....
...“It’s not like the standard V-shaped recession in emerging markets, such as in Indonesia in 1998 where it’s only a year and a half of real economic hardship,” 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.”...
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...Related links: What Hertz tells us about the future of shared mobility – FT Alphaville Shared mobility V.1, USSR edition – FT Alphaville Do the economics of self-driving taxis actually make sense?...
...This year the company opened two grocery pick-up kiosks in Seattle, where customers can order groceries online and then pick them up without getting out of their car....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...“If dealers had to sell all their cars at the same price, that would just make prices higher for everyone,” he says....
...French blow for Uber A French court found the car-hailing company and two of its executives guilty of starting an “illegal” car-booking service with its now defunct UberPop, in the first criminal ruling...
...It isn’t fun.” ————————- Read more Meet the seven robots you need to know Robot writer v human journalist: see the face-off at the FT How has the robot economy triggered a global investment explosion...
...This means the data being thrown off by cars, aeroplane engines, elevators and other industrial products, supplying the raw material to turn dumb manufactured goods into what he calls “systems of intelligence...
...The breathless talk is of another surge in technological innovation, the rapid development of virtual reality, driverless cars, 3D printing, robots, personalised medicines, the application of artificial...
...“There’s unlikely to be the big titan v titan litigation that we saw in the smartphone wars.”...
...(FT) Murdoch v Trump: Fox and The Hair Donald Trump has gone to war with an unlikely enemy....
...“We’ve gone from being like a Ford Model T, where every car has the same colour, to being more like a Jaguar or Mercedes, who can offer extra options and make more on those than on the base car,” says Mr...
...Forwarded Google v Uber Alphabet is planning to launch a fleet of self-driving cars for hire next year, which will have it competing with Uber....
...“We are very aware of the downside with longer terms, but we’re balancing this against the competitive landscape,” Jeffrey Williams, finance chief at America’s Car-Mart, told analysts last week on a quarterly...
...What is good for Google is good for America — and the world. But there are hidden costs. Ponder how Google and Facebook, are interacting with you....
...The engines — powered by methane, a new propellant for US-built engines — will initially power a similar rocket to the Atlas V that ULA powers with Russian-built RD180 engines....
...“We’re here to disrupt and shatter the status quo and dispel preconceived notions,” Johan de Nysschen, Cadillac’s chief executive, said at the unveiling of the new Cadillac CTS-V, a performance version of...
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...Gen Shelton told the symposium he was “very concerned” about the US’s ability to produce rocket engines....
...This may complicate life for makers of driverless cars: because of legal uncertainties and hugely variable driving environments, “self-driving” is likely to be offered as an optional setting for decades...
...After all, this is the massive battery-making plant that is meant to cement Tesla’s rise as the world’s first mass-market electric car maker....
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