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...What’s more, Beijing says it opposes a sale, probably because it does not want to lose control of TikTok’s content algorithm (which is arguably a bigger national security flashpoint than data storage)....
...But the performance and cost of current lithium-ion batteries are also improving constantly, as other technologies such as silicon anodes make advances....
...Of the two, silicon carbide is considered more suitable for power chips used in high-power electric vehicle chargers and energy storage systems....
...Regardless, some tech executives in Silicon Valley seem set to push ahead. Real estate trends suggest an enduring, even growing, belief in the physical office, especially among technology companies....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on June 28 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...A small example of what is at stake is Bounce, a US start-up that offers travellers short-term storage for luggage at shops and offices through a phone app....
...The Silicon Valley company has been steadily pushing deeper into financial products over recent years, as part of its broader drive to boost sales from services such as Apple Music and iCloud storage....
...Silver Lake, the Silicon Valley private equity group that helped to mastermind the dealmaking, will be left with stakes in Dell and VMware worth $11bn....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 23. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The unit, with gross margins above 70 per cent, has more than 745m customers for games, media, iCloud storage and warranty support....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. You can build it, but will they come?...
...A good place to start is to hunt through the top holdings in Smith’s Volta fund, which include Pilbara Minerals, an Australian lithium and tantalum miner; Wolfspeed Inc, a silicon-carbide semiconductor manufacturer...
...(FT) Cryptocracy Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley’s most prolific venture capital firms, is carving a stake in the world of digital currency....
...It starts with double the storage, at 64GB, from $329....
...Silicon Valley’s Sequoia Capital names new leader One of Silicon Valley’s oldest and most successful venture capital firms, Sequoia Capital, is changing its leadership....
...There was a March release date given for Gran Turismo 7 and the unfortunate slippage of Grand Theft Auto V from November to March. Axios has more....
...Her appointment as chair of the Federal Trade Commission this week has sent shockwaves through Washington, Wall Street and Silicon Valley. James Politi has a profile of the 32-year-old. 5....
...Companies pushing such offers are hot property in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street....
...The latter is based on the open-source Risc-V architecture....
...Tech companies will have to buy more and more clean power as their businesses grow, and invest in battery storage capacity....
...The Silicon Valley company’s stock jumped more than 160 per cent above the IPO price to touch $315, sending the company’s market value to almost $90bn, based on the number of shares outstanding, before easing...
...At Westbeck Capital, the current top holdings also indicate some “tangential” ways to play this big trend, namely Infineon Technologies, the German semiconductor maker, and Cree Inc (CREE US)....
...Japan Inc has domestic support to be more vocal on controversial issues, too....
...Oracle, the technology group chaired by Larry Ellison, one of the very few senior figures in Silicon Valley to publicly support Mr Trump, has emerged this week as TikTok’s preferred partner in the US....
...Canada also announced on Thursday it will use the Silicon Valley companies’ technology in a forthcoming contact-tracing app of its own....
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