Hints and tips:
...Bove: The banks are the core safety valve of the financial system. The fact that they are losing market share to entities that are not protected in any fashion is extraordinarily scary....
...And if a bank does need liquidity, the Fed’s Bank Term Funding Program, established as a safety valve in March, is still open....
...Spencer also said Microsoft was committed to offering the popular series on Valve’s Steam game distribution platform at the same time as it is released on Xbox....
...The softly spoken Alfonso Camisotti opened his shop in the early 1970s, when buttons were chunky and valves glowed gently....
...In Tomeu’s own words: ‘what a refining manager does is open and close valves’.” The case has also been dragged into the ongoing political stand-off between Washington and Caracas....
...Miami-Dade’s chief heat officer since June, she’s hopeful about the city’s other adjustments: the pumps being put on streets, the backflow valves, the movement toward density and away from septic tanks....
...But in October, Valve itself had to step up against the criminals....
...As Lex notes, this is a costly release valve for start-up employees. But the cash is often necessary to pay costly taxes when stock options are exercised....
...In other news: Venus Medtech, a Chinese company that produces heart valve replacement devices, has raised $308m in an initial public offering on the Hong Kong stock exchange, becoming the latest healthcare...
...Investors included Japan Airlines and two government-backed organisations, Innovation Network Corp of Japan and the Development Bank of Japan....
...HTC’s Vive, developed by games distribution and development company Valve, held an 8.4 per cent market share for VR headsets in the first quarter, behind Sony’s 18.8 per cent share and Facebook’s 4.4 per...
...Predictive maintenance Studying all the data associated with pieces of equipment such as pumps and valves can give indications as to when they are likely to fail, allowing them to be repaired or replaced...
...The deal will also act as a release valve for early Uber investors who have seen the value of their shares soar but been unable to monetise their holdings....
...The biggest esports tournaments, such as the League of Legends world championship, hosted by Tencent-owned Riot Games, and the Dota 2 international, held by US games group Valve, attract multimillion-dollar...
...After Katrina and Rita, the US Army Corps of Engineers built a15-foot-high concrete floodwall that protects the Valero and Marathon refineries near Texas City, to the south of Houston....
...Put another way, this means they have found a release valve for 70 per cent of the foreign cash they generated in the period. It is not hard to find where the money went....
.... —- Fuels are diverted through valves . . . and burnt in a pre-burner Exhaust from the pre-burner drives a turbine . . . . . . which drives two pumps supplying fuels . . . . . . to the main combustion...
...Voice-controlled locks and radiator valves may seem like gimmicks, but soon “they will be just the way things are”, says Mr Pearson....
...launched three antitrust probes into online pricing on Thursday, looking into alleged anti-competitive pricing practices for consumer electronics, video games and hotels by companies ranging from Philips and Valve...
...Head start on software Like Valve, which developed the Vive with HTC, Sony’s in-house games studios have given the PS VR an advantage by ensuring it has a good range of software available at launch....
...HTC and Valve have created a unique combination of hardware and software that delivers the best VR experience available today....
...Other specialisations include heat exchange systems, the installation of equipment and engineered components, such as the valves and pumps made by Scottish engineering company Weir Group....
...Adding FMC, a specialist in the underwater pressure valves for oil wells should lead to more compelling bids for offshore projects....
...Vive, which HTC is producing in partnership with PC gaming company Valve, had been planned for release last year but is now scheduled to go on sale in April....
...That space has given Beijing what one expert refers to as a “steam valve” — a way for public debate to be held without growing out of control....
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