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...Driverless car company Cruise is to pause self-driving operations across its fleet, days after California regulators barred its vehicles from the state’s roads....
...The start-up’s headquarters are at Moffett airfield in the San Francisco Bay Area, a Nasa-owned facility a short drive from Google’s headquarters that the US space agency began leasing to the tech company...
...The companies argued the city had no grounds to object since they had met all the requirements that state regulators had laid out, including satisfying driverless car rules from the California Department...
...Cruise to generate $1bn of revenues in 2025 — when it expects to have commercial operations in the US, the United Arab Emirates and Japan — and $50bn a year by 2030....
...Companies got the go-ahead from the state California Public Utilities Commission and the department of motor vehicles. Some city agencies are deeply unhappy about the situation....
...When he wrote on his website, “I believe in the United States of America. I believe in a strong national defence....
...Much of the remuneration paid to workers at the biggest tech companies comes in the form of stock....
...But for many of the biggest companies in the world, driverless vehicles are still inevitable....
...This week, we revisit one of our favourite episodes. After years of mega-deals and mega-money gushing into start-ups, venture capital fundraising hit a record-high last year....
...Kyle Vogt, co-founder and chief executive of Cruise, talks of scale as the company’s focus. Cruise says that by 2025, revenues should hit $1bn....
...The company, Plan D LLC, owned a Gulfstream jet. In court papers reviewed by the FT, the US Virgin Islands government cites flight logs showing that the plane transported underage girls....
...“As soon as a company builds the tech infrastructure, or gets used to people Zooming in to meetings, there becomes much less reason for that person to be employed in the United States,” he said....
...The FT’s head of audio is Cheryl Brumley....
...A number of smaller tech companies had also become frustrated that their priorities were at odds with Big Tech’s agenda....
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...In the first episode of this season’s six-part series, the FT’s Global China Editor James Kynge tracks China’s dramatic transformation from the manufacturing workshop of the world to the next global superpower...
...Companies cashing in on working from home may be accused of double standards. The argument for cutting pay for staff who relocate is that their costs have dropped....
...including boutique company Highgate, which closed it in 2019 for this total makeover....
...It said a fund worth $10bn could be used to purchase a 2 per cent stake in the Chinese internet company ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, without investing in any other companies....
...But experience should teach us caution about what big tech companies have in mind when they ask to scan our living rooms....
...A stylish state-of-the-art refurb will open in August....
...and state....
...A handful of very large, very rich companies that need fewer and fewer workers doesn’t add up to an economy....
...The Golden State, with its 415 delegates, is Super Tuesday’s biggest prize of the 14 states that vote that day....
...The account of Ms Ferenc — who is also the chair of the Tampa Bay chamber of commerce — is emblematic of the concerns gripping economists and policymakers about the state of the US economy....
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