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...“The bailouts are going to put a lot of Montana banks and Montana families on the hook for the mismanagement of a [San Francisco] Bay Area Bank,” he said....
...the world to try to keep western governments at bay....
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...What else we’re reading Wagner Inc: a Russian warlord and his lawyers As founder of the private mercenary operation known as the Wagner Group, which offers muscle to dictators and has waged war in the Middle...
...But the oil sands output has been growing as oil prices have risen and as new export capacity is planned, including a pipeline to Canada’s west coast, making it easier to get the crude to market....
...And then one year the amount of cargo coming into the West Coast grew by a fifth, and what went out went down by a similar amount,” he says....
...Chief legal officer Tony West, brother-in-law of US vice-president Kamala Harris, led a successful campaign that exempted Uber drivers from California’s gig worker bill....
...(BBG Law) Back to the Bay Tech workers swore they’d never return to San Francisco after fleeing to larger and cheaper spaces during the pandemic....
...Despite the military-to-military co-operation between Myanmar and China during Myanmar's period of estrangement from the west in the 1990s and 2000s, Myanmar's military is itself aware of China's ambitions...
...four hours east, by car, from the San Francisco Bay Area....
...Mr Newsom also said parking facilities at beaches in southern California and the San Francisco Bay area would be closed for the July 4 holiday weekend, and encouraged counties to consider cancelling fireworks...
...The west coast model of VC investing, with which we are most familiar today, owed an enormous amount to massive government investments in technology during the cold war, the expansion of world-beating universities...
...“Salted Caramel Ice Cream” is effervescent synth-pop with clever rhymes and what sounds like a cheeky melodic borrowing from Lipps Inc’s “Funkytown”....
...That inspirational cry, an inventive fusion of east and west, was shouted across a darkened room in San Francisco over thumping dance music to 50 people sitting on stationary bikes....
...Negative cash flow from large, established companies has re-emerged as a sensitive issue on the West Coast thanks to Uber’s unhappy debut on the stock market....
...taking place on the west coast”....
...(FT) Keeping transparency at bay There’s a $1.5tn dark offshore economy hiding in paradise, and the British Virgin Islands, home to 400,000 companies, is eager to keep it that way....
...It has been the secret sauce of Silicon Valley for decades, and it is the same model that is driving the next generation of tech titans, from Airbnb and Uber in the west, to Alibaba, Didi Chuxing and Tencent...
...While they might not be familiar to ordinary consumers in the west, Chinese tech companies like Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba and JD.com are global giants in terms of the number of users and market capitalisation...
...The Salesforce Tower, the tallest building west of Chicago, is a symbol of what Silicon Valley has become over the past three decades: home to the world’s richest and most powerful companies, and many of...
...Internet services in the west offer increasing convenience no doubt — but nothing beats the experience in China. Why such rapid growth?...
...But what it does reveal is the striking contrast between working life in China’s technology companies and their counterparts in the west....
...Mr West, a San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of Harvard and Stanford Law School, has previously worked as special assistant at the California attorney-general’s office during its antitrust case...
...The software worked by posing like a regular Lyft rider, and then “scraping” data from the Lyft app such as the location of cars and the price of a ride, all of which would be publicly available to a regular...
...north-west of the Okinotorishima reef....
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