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...of state at the start of the 2003 Iraq war....
...Unlike competitors such as Sequoia Capital India, Tiger Global maintains a minimal presence in the country. An office in Bangalore employs a couple of employees working in research....
...Aurora, a younger autonomous driving start-up led by Chris Urmson, the former project lead at Waymo, has raised $690m from the likes of Amazon and Sequoia....
...’s small, squabbling states and assorted mercenaries....
...The previous month, Uber secured a $1bn investment in its self-driving unit from Toyota, the Vision Fund and the Japanese car parts supplier Denso....
...Nuro, which first obtained a permit to test autonomous vehicles in its home state of California in April 2017, has been testing its technology with American supermarket chain Kroger since last year....
...“America is a country of immigrants, whatever the rhetoric coming from politics.”...
...She left to join Toyota in Australia, where she rose to the position of national finance manager and became one of the few women to reach a senior level at the time....
...CreditSights analysts called attention to the addition of the Fremont factory -- a 5.3m-square-foot facility that was previously home to a famous joint venture between GM and Toyota -- in a Tuesday note...
...Carmakers from Toyota to Mercedes-Benz and the British engineering group Dyson are working on so-called solid state batteries like Mr Zimmerman’s and there were about $400m of investments in the technology...
...Naspers’ investment of $32m in Tencent in 2001, now worth $175bn, powered its rise from a publisher and pay-TV operator to Africa’s biggest company by market capitalisation....
...Funding for the latter sector rose to 17 per cent of the pie. The $3.7bn raised for healthcare is the highest since 2001....
...One of Torotrak’s most promising gadgets has long been the V-Charge, a smarter version of a turbocharger that took six years to develop....
...As chair of the Global Fund, I also oversaw a comprehensive reform effort. As minister of foreign affairs, I dealt with heads of state, reoriented organisations and built consensus....
...“Many of the companies that invest here do so because of the ability to make here and sell elsewhere. BMW is a great example. They export more cars from the United States than they do from Germany....
...So you don’t have to study economics very long to figure out that we have to look at markets outside the borders of the United States,” says Greg Ibach, director of the Nebraska Department of Agriculture...
...Henny Sender in Hong Kong reports WME-IMG is teaming up with venture firm Sequoia Capital China and internet group Tencent to expand the US sports and entertainment conglomerate’s Chinese business....
...As the state’s motoring regulator released its proposals, one immediately attracted controversy: the requirement that a human sit in the driver’s seat....
...Prior to that, he lit the touchpaper of controversy with “La Nona Ora” (1999), a wax image of Pope John Paul II being decked by a meteorite; “Him” (2001), a replica of Hitler in an attitude of prayer (up...
...Similarly, the television series The People v OJ Simpson paints a picture of the city two years after the riots, still simmering with tension to the extent that it was inconceivable in parts of the African-American...
...It is, they say, totally different to Houston, which has not pulled off the same trick during the past few years: there is no Facebook and no Toyota, just a long list of expansions from the likes of Chevron...
...switch, which had been known to be faulty since 2001....
...World leaders attending a Group of 20 summit in Turkey united in condemning what US President Barack Obama called an attack “on the civilised world”....
...In soccer, it is London v Manchester, Madrid v Barcelona and local derbies beyond number. But for me it is purely local: Go Nats!! onohana.martin@gmail.com...
...On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard a case called Bank of America v Caulkett that has big implications for the US housing market....
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