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...In place of the focus on shareholder returns that drove Sam Walton’s generation, America’s biggest industry groups have pledged themselves to “stakeholder capitalism”, the notion that they can be a force...
...So, in the case of California, and the Bay Area counties, specifically every other car factory in North America was allowed to start but not Tesla even though there was no basis for that....
...So in the case of California and the Bay Area counties specifically, every other car factory in North America was allowed to start, but not Tesla, even though there was no basis for that....
...Asia’s ‘airpocalypse’ Thailand's verdant north, free of both industry and tourists, has somehow found itself at the epicentre of a global crisis....
...Its denizens want to “cure” death, colonise the solar system and build machines with real human intelligence. Next to those ideas, congestion may seem more trivial....
...America....
...Meanwhile, supply was abundant in North America thanks to the shale revolution, and other countries had the potential to develop “unconventional” gas industries of their own....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...The US solar industry employs more than twice as many workers as the coal sector, a report showed in February....
...Weak US first-quarter sales raise the possibility that full-year US sales could fall this year for the first time since the American motor industry bottomed out during the great recession, or end flat at...
...This comes two years after Google pulled its experimental Google Glass eyewear from the shelves following a consumer backlash....
...in the North America commercial transportation market and pricing pressure....
...Lithium is found in small concentrations across the world, from Australia and Afghanistan to America....
...North America’s oldest private company, which was founded as a fur trader in 1670, said on Tuesday that it would launch in a third European country with the opening of up to 20 department stores across the...
...Flag as Important Tom Perkins dies The pioneer of Silicon Valley’s venture capital industry and, more recently, one of its more controversial and outspoken figures,has died at the age of 84....
...Every week about a thousand workers travel by bus to a site in the north of the desert to work seven-day shifts on the salar, thousands of miles of salt flats that shine white in the glare of the sun....
...Also: AR v VR Do you like your reality augmented or completely virtual? Augmented reality has seen little progress with no sign yet of Google bringing out the next generation of Google Glass....
...Only 0.5 per cent of the US labour force is employed in industries that did not exist in 2000 and, even in Silicon Valley, only 1.8 per cent of workers are employed in new industries....
...Overall investment in US electricity transmission is set to remain flat for the next three years, however, at about $20bn per year according to the Edison Electric Institute, the industry association....
...It this year pumped $300m into an investment vehicle run by solar power company SolarCity to help fund installations by homeowners in the US....
...Another work, Solar Reserve (2014), used the same techniques to depict a solar power station in the Nevada desert, with 10,000 mirrors in concentric circles around a turbine — whose design, Mr Gerrard pointed...
...He talks quietly and articulately in an accent unaffected by two decades in America....
...That is Act V, and we are not there yet. For now we are still very definitely in the age of hydrocarbons....
...The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite was flat at 4,569.62. eric.platt@ft.com Twitter: @ericgplatt...
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