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...The first casualties of the crypto industry meltdown were the millions of investors who ploughed their money into digital assets, as well as the former crypto titans themselves, whose fortunes were wiped...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 9, 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...(FT) Fire up the jet As commercial airlines tick by on life support, the private aircraft industry is taking off....
...That has made the companies that would normally buy independent movies — from industry titans such as Amazon and Comcast-owned Universal to relative minnows such as the distributor Neon — wary of taking...
...The status of the workers who provide the services offered by so-called gig economy companies such as Uber has been a point of contention for many years....
...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...
...contractors....
...The tech industry is already under fire for a lack of ethnic diversity....
...Portable benefits, an idea supported by many tech titans, would help provide a basic safety net for workers in the US sharing economy, allowing them to be more entrepreneurial....
...It looks more like the campus of a California tech company, such as Pixar or Google, than the outskirts of an industrial estate in Isleworth.”...
...Lyft recently settled a similar lawsuit, agreeing to make a $12.5m payout and to change the way it fires drivers. Lyft drivers are still considered independent contractors....
...That came as the company revealed it had reached an agreement to purchase the Sikorsky helicopter business from United Technologies for $9bn....
...The legal challenge against Uber will have far-reaching implications for how tech companies will have to treat the fleets of workers who perform services such as on-demand home cleaning or on-demand laundry...
...Yes, that does mean the tax pot shrinks a bit so services are squeezed and the burden of funding public services falls on ordinary workers — but that is only fair since they do not have any better ideas...
...It was the 96th successful launch in the history of United Launch Alliance, a little-known company that plays a critical role in the US’s national security....
...However, TPG had to overcome tough questions about the performance of TPG V, its boom-era buyout fund, which invested $15.5bn but suffered some high-profile casualties....
...Vodafone will launch TV and broadband for the first time this year, while Sky will provide mobile services next year....
...Morgan Stanley came under intense fire from investors for its role in Facebook’s $16bn offering and was fined $5m in 2012 by the Massachusetts securities regulator, after it said the company’s investment...
...“You’ll create tremendous friction in the flow of information between companies that work together globally,” says Aaron Levie, chief executive of Box Inc, a US cloud storage company....
...Today they resemble public sector contractors....
...The RD180 engines that powered the Atlas V rocket off the launch pad were built not by one of the US’s domestic aerospace companies but by Russia’s NPO Energomash, currently maker of some of the world’s...
...(Financial Times) “Square has acquired curated food delivery service Caviar today, confirming earlier reports that the companies had been in serious talks....
...The trigger for this was the growing number of casualties in ambushes of normal supply lines, either convoys of trucks felled by roadside bombs, or manned helicopters coming under heavy enemy fire....
...(Financial Times) Virtu Financial, a high-frequency trading company, has delayed a planned US IPO after its bankers advised it to hold fire as this week’s publication of Flash Boys thrust the business of...
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