Bizness,
29. December 2020
Latvijas informācijas tehnoloģiju uzņēmums “WinGo Deposit” ir saņēmis kārtējo starptautisko atzinību – atbalsta finansējumu tālākai inovatīvās atkritumu šķirošanas iekārtas attīstībai. “WinGo” ir radījis inovatīvu iekārtu, kas ar mākslīgā intelekta risinājuma[...]
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Bizness,
11. November 2019
Par Rīgas domes grantu programmas «Atspēriens» 2019. gada uzvarētājiem atzīti SIA «Evlab», SIA «ARConstruction» un SIA «Kong», kas no pašvaldības katrs saņems 25 000 eiro savu ideju realizēšanai. SIA «Evlab»[...]
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Bizness,
10. November 2019
‘Everyone knows German engineering is outstanding for sure’ FRANKFURT — To unclog bottlenecks last year in Tesla Model 3 production in California, Elon Musk flew in six planeloads of new robots and equipment from[...]
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Bizness,
10. November 2019
The EIB will stop backing fossil fuel energy investments in 2021 unless they negate their emissions through carbon capture or offsets. The European Investment Bank will stop backing fossil fuel[...]
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Bizness,
10. November 2019
While U.S. President Donald Trump may be “the world’s most powerful climate change denier,” our latest research suggests that he took over over a thriving green economy. According to new data, by 2016[...]
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Bizness,
10. October 2019
Technologies that capture, reuse, or lock away carbon dioxide have long seemed more like science fiction than viable ventures: Buildings that trap waste gases in their concrete bricks. Meatless burgers[...]
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Bizness,
10. October 2019
The world’s largest investment banks are pouring billions into fossil fuels. According to the Guardian newspaper, over $700 billion worth of “loans, equity issuances and debt underwriting” has funneled its[...]
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Bizness,
10. October 2019
Aboard the Sustainable Ocean Alliance’s floating startup program In our oceans the scale of disasters is measured in millions, billions, and trillions, while solutions amount to single digits: individuals or institutions[...]
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Bizness,
10. September 2019
Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra hasn’t exactly had a good start, with critics pummeling it from all sides since its revealing in June. Most recently, France and Germany said they would block Libra altogether, as they deem that[...]
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Bizness,
10. September 2019
There has been a massive shift in how we build tech companies. The old way of hiring top tier tech talent was to look for talent 20 miles from company HQ or[...]
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Bizness,
10. September 2019
The startup had already raised more than $1 billion from Amazon, Ford and others. Rivian raised another $350 million to support its electric truck and SUV commercialization. This investment came[...]
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Bizness,
09. August 2019
Berkshire Hathaway’s Class A is the costliest stock in the world, with its price sitting at roughly $300,000 a share. This is primarily due to CEO Warren Buffett’s choice to not[...]
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Bizness,
09. August 2019
It’s committing to technology for the long haul. It’s clear by now that IKEA is serious about smart home tech between its Sonos-powered speakers and connected lights, but the home furniture giant wants[...]
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Bizness,
10. July 2019
Bank of England governor says firms that ignore crisis ‘will go bankrupt without question’ Capitalism is “very much part of the solution” to tackling the climate crisis, according to the[...]
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Bizness,
10. July 2019
Most building energy retrofits are one-off affairs. “We need an Amazon” in the market, says one architect. It’s almost always easier and cheaper to build an energy-efficient building in the[...]
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Bizness,
10. July 2019
On Friday, Ford and the Volkswagen Group announced that they would step up their global alliance. “Ford will become the first additional automaker to use Volkswagen’s dedicated electric vehicle architecture and Modular Electric Toolkit[...]
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Bizness,
19. June 2019
Gatavi gaidīt atjaunojamās enerģijas vērtspapīru cenu pieaugumu. Līdzekļu pārvaldnieki arvien lielākā mērā sola ieguldīt uzņēmumos, kas sniedz kādu sociālo labumu un ir videi draudzīgi. Tas šobrīd ir modē, un ar[...]
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Bizness,
07. February 2019
Microsoft has said that it will allow anybody to open an app store for its new HoloLens 2 headset. The plan has already won over a former critic: Epic Games[...]
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Bizness,
07. February 2019
The automotive industry is at a once-in-a-century turning point. New developments are reported daily in fields such as autonomous driving, electric vehicles (EVs), and fuel cell vehicles (FCVs). The International[...]
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Bizness,
07. February 2019
Amazon is acquiring Eero, the pioneering Wi-Fi router company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Eero makes “mesh” Wi-Fi routers, which help blanket even the largest spaces with a[...]
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Bizness,
06. February 2019
It’s not nation states or even cities, but mega-regions—combinations of multiple metro areas—that are the real forces powering the global economy. When world leaders, economists, and pundits talk about global[...]
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Bizness,
06. February 2019
The acquisition follows Shell’s purchase of EV charging company Greenlots. On Friday, oil major Royal Dutch Shell and German energy storage company Sonnen announced that Shell would acquire Sonnen for an undisclosed[...]
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Bizness,
06. February 2019
SEC says Musk broke a promise to get tweets pre-approved by Tesla lawyers. The Securities and Exchange Commission has asked a federal judge to hold Tesla boss Elon Musk in contempt for tweeting last[...]
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Bizness,
31. January 2019
Tesla is routinely considered to be influencing the traditional auto industry. Tesla has exerted some influence, but it has been relatively modest in the grand scheme of things. Auto executives[...]
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Bizness,
23. January 2019
The news reflects mounting competition among global battery manufacturers. Toyota Motor Corporation and Panasonic Corporation announced Tuesday that the two companies will establish a joint venture next year to produce[...]
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Bizness,
23. January 2019
Power systems producer Siemens Corp. will team up with three national energy labs to test new technologies to bolster electricity supply, options and resiliency in the years ahead. Siemens Corporate[...]
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Bizness,
23. January 2019
The company reported Thursday that fourth-quarter revenues were up 28 percent for the new business unit. General Electric this week announced an expansion of GE Renewable Energy, in the latest[...]
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Bizness,
12. December 2018
From Theranos to Telltale, here are some of the companies that didn’t make it There are few things in this world more difficult than launching a successful startup. It takes talent,[...]
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Bizness,
12. December 2018
As Tesla’s Model 3 continues to gain market share, legacy automakers face some daunting decisions. Bloomberg warns, “The future of the auto industry is going to look like the history of the cell phone[...]
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Bizness,
07. December 2018
Apple is having trouble selling its latest iPhones, according to numerous reports. There’s an easy way for the company to solve the problem — cut its sky-high prices. Apple can[...]
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Bizness,
07. December 2018
Tesla has developed a mini-monopoly in the auto industry. Tesla is the first new auto brand to appear in decades, and as it has survived it’s come to dominate the[...]
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Bizness,
07. December 2018
The company expects the Model 3 to add substantially to its 2018 delivery totals. 2017 saw 100,000 vehicles delivered, and 2018 could more than double that total.
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Bizness,
12. November 2018
Electric cars still only make up a fraction of a percent of passenger vehicles. But that’s quickly changing. Here’s more evidence of the coming transition: ChargePoint, the world’s largest network of[...]
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Bizness,
12. November 2018
Workers and politicians ask: Why now? DETROIT — Even though unemployment is low, the economy is growing and U.S. auto sales are near historic highs, General Motors is cutting thousands of jobs[...]
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Bizness,
12. November 2018
Inside the massive factory where Tesla will soon make 60 percent of the world’s lithium-ion batteries Right now, in the desert just east of Reno, Nevada, Tesla is drilling into[...]
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Bizness,
13. October 2018
Part of a $1 billion investment to upgrade its factory in Tuscaloosa FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Daimler on Friday said it will start building a battery plant as part of its[...]
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Bizness,
13. October 2018
The Shanghai-area plant could give Tesla some company. VW’s grandiose electric car plans just became more tangible. The automaker has started building its first group-wide, large-scale EV production factory in Anting, about[...]
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Bizness,
12. October 2018
PEOPLE USUALLY HAVE three questions about Tesla and Elon Musk’s promises: When can I get a $35,000 Model 3? Can Teslas drive themselves? And can Tesla actually make money selling electric cars? The[...]
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Bizness,
12. October 2018
His Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund is teaming up with the European council to invest in companies focused on agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation. Bill Gates has coined a new way to[...]
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Bizness,
12. October 2018
Buying enough clean energy to make up for your dirty energy is one thing; using all clean energy 24/7 is another, and it could signal a new approach. Our time[...]
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Bizness,
07. September 2018
Tesla critics and short-sellers have offered dire warnings about impending electric-car competition coming for the automaker. But globally, EV sales amount to only about 1% of sales — there’s no[...]
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Bizness,
07. September 2018
Chances are, you or someone you know has two or three or more ride-share, car-share, or bike-share services apps on their smartphone. The app-driven shared mobility services we regularly use[...]
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Bizness,
07. September 2018
Estonian ride-hailing company Taxify will compete with Bird and Lime in Europe with its new brand of e-scooters, called Bolt, launching in Paris on Thursday. The company has rolled the scooter sharing[...]
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Bizness,
07. September 2018
Insurance companies lead the sell-off of coal, oil and gas stocks over climate change and financial fears – oil majors now cite divestment as a risk to them The funds[...]
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Bizness,
07. September 2018
As the tech giant’s first move into prefab construction, Amazon has invested in home-building start-up Plant PreFab. Known for smart home technology and sustainable construction, Plant PreFab is based in Rialto, California and is set[...]
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Bizness,
07. September 2018
Most publicly traded automakers grew workforce since 2013 Even as many automotive assembly lines look like a scene from a dystopian science fiction movie, with robots performing everything from welding[...]
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Bizness,
06. September 2018
The large, legacy car industry has pinned a lot of hopes and dreams on innovative startups to build the next generation of automotive technology, and today the latest chapter in[...]
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Bizness,
07. August 2018
When Nichole Mustard found herself adrift after college, she made a simple promise to herself: Be happy. Time and again, that choice led her to revamp her life and start[...]
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Bizness,
07. August 2018
The cleantech, tech, stock, and business news of this past week was more obvious than an elephant sitting in a Fiat 500e — Elon Musk may take Tesla private. It[...]
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Bizness,
07. August 2018
Thank heaven for the old RAF airfields that dot the British countryside, for they provide the local population with lots of fond memories and empty buildings that can be repurposed[...]
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Bizness,
07. August 2018
Just when you thought Apple’s top secret car project was dead, the rumor mill has once again started back up. This time, TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (aka the guy who’s[...]
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Bizness,
01. July 2018
By acquiring Motivate, Uber’s chief rival will take over the docked systems in New York, D.C., San Francisco, and more. Most people know Lyft as a peppy upstart nipping at[...]
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Bizness,
01. July 2018
From food-delivery startups to mapping and co-living companies, technology focused on urban systems is drawing billions of dollars in venture capital. The terms high-tech and venture capital conjure images of[...]
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Bizness,
01. July 2018
But global warming will. Eleven teams participated in a recent Stanford Energy Modeling Forum (EMF) project, examining the economic and environmental impacts of a carbon tax. The studies included “revenue recycling,”[...]
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Bizness,
01. July 2018
Ten years ago Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes said he wasn’t worried about digital streaming. “I’ve been frankly confused by this fascination that everybody has with Netflix,” he said. Blockbuster’s head of[...]
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Bizness,
01. July 2018
The inverter company has expanded simultaneously into smart homes, uninterruptible power and virtual power plants. SolarEdge has moved into the utility-scale inverter market as a new growth opportunity. The Israeli[...]
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Bizness,
01. July 2018
Qualcomm makes the chips that power nearly every smartphone, but lately its name has been associated with a series of scandals — including a hostile take over attempt by its[...]
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Bizness,
03. June 2018
The Croatian company knows a lot about EVs and will become a development partner. By this point you may well have heard of Rimac Automobili, if for no other reason[...]
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Bizness,
03. June 2018
There’s a rare moment of cheer for floundering electric car maker Faraday Future after it landed a new investor and a fresh commitment of capital. Evergrande Health, a division of Hong Kong-listed[...]
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Bizness,
03. June 2018
The number of IoT devices will grow like crazy once the next-generation networks arrive, according to a new report. The number of connected smart devices will quintuple over the next[...]
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Bizness,
30. May 2018
The opportunity for smart buildings is clear. But for many firms, harnessing it requires a better understanding of real estate trends. The opportunity for smart buildings is clear. From The[...]
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Bizness,
30. May 2018
How else do you grow an economy by 80 percent without increasing carbon emissions? Earlier this year, California raked in $2.7 trillion gross state product, overtaking the UK as the[...]
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Bizness,
30. May 2018
Amazon announced Wednesday that it will try to pitch the general public on its dystopian future by launching interactive showrooms in model homes across the country to show off its full line[...]
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Bizness,
30. May 2018
Nikola: Tesla’s cabin design is substantially similar to its Nikola One truck. On Tuesday, zero-emissions truck startup Nikola Motor Company sued Tesla for allegedly infringing on its design patents. Nikola[...]
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Bizness,
30. May 2018
Garbage trucks may soon be much quieter. Volvo introduced a new electric garbage truck design this week called the Volvo FE Electric. The truck is built to optimize efficiency and[...]
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Bizness,
30. May 2018
As China plans to fully open its auto market to foreign ventures, Tesla ignites plans for its first non-US Gigafactory. Tesla is preparing to set foot on Chinese soil as the[...]
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Bizness,
30. May 2018
Wall Street seems to be warming up to the long-term potential of solar companies. Wall Street could be forgiven for having doubts about the solar market last year. On the[...]
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Bizness,
28. April 2018
If you live in a US city, car-sharing services like Lyft and Uber might seem omnipresent. However, the ride-sharing economy still has a ways to go, at least according to[...]
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Bizness,
28. April 2018
Despite President Trump’s call for a coal power renaissance, companies like GM, Target and Starbucks are following Google and Apple in deals for solar and wind energy. It’s not just Google, Apple and[...]
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Bizness,
28. April 2018
Tech stocks blew expectations out of the water in 2017, outpacing the S&P 500 by 21 percentage points. While 2017 certainly marked an exceptional year for tech stocks, it was also[...]
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Bizness,
07. April 2018
The world’s most valuable company isn’t the best example for how you should build your startup. Walking into my first ever meeting with a structural packaging designer, I started rooting around[...]
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Bizness,
07. April 2018
ExxonMobil has much to answer for when the topic is climate change, environmental destruction, and the creation of the global refugee crisis, but it is finally waking up to the[...]
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Bizness,
07. April 2018
German auto supplier Bosch made a pair of major moves earlier this week that will help it ramp up efforts to offer its own mobility services: Bosch purchased SPLT, a[...]
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Bizness,
07. April 2018
Slow Transition BP, one of the world’s largest oil companies, is slowly inching their way into the clean energy business. The company announced on Monday, January 30, that they are[...]
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Bizness,
07. April 2018
IN BRIEF Tesla is finally building the rooftop solar panel array for Gigafactory 1. The project has us asking: When will the array be completed? How much money has Tesla[...]
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Bizness,
07. April 2018
Europe’s largest oil company, Royal Dutch Shell, surprised the world late last year when it announced an ambition to slash its carbon footprint by 20 percent per unit of energy[...]
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Bizness,
07. April 2018
The following is adapted from State of Green Business 2018, published by GreenBiz in partnership with Trucost. As the world moves toward a low-carbon economy, a fourth industrial revolution is taking place where[...]
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Bizness,
07. April 2018
Tesla will set up designated spaces in over 800 Home Depot stores that will highlight its renewable energy products, like its solar panels and at-home batteries. Tesla is also reportedly[...]
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Bizness,
07. April 2018
The smart home appliance maker is being folded back into the search giant’s hardware group after three years as an Alphabet subsidiary Smart home appliance maker Nest, which for three[...]
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Bizness,
07. April 2018
If you have your smart home synced to all your preferences — say a thermostat that’s always the right temperature, lights that turn on at dusk, and a playlist you[...]
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Bizness,
07. April 2018
They signed a non-binding memorandum to team up, though new products aren’t guaranteed. In July, Chinese tech giant Xiaomi jumped into the smart speaker race with its answer to Amazon’s Alexa and[...]
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Bizness,
07. April 2018
DHL thinks it could recoup the money in just a year and a half. When Tesla unveiled its Semi electric truck, it made audacious claims about the big rig’s value — namely, that[...]
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Bizness,
07. April 2018
The big theme in tech this year was consolidation — not in terms of mergers and acquisitions but in the big companies extending their reach and trying to conquer new[...]
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Bizness,
07. April 2018
The “retail apocalypse” affords a unique opportunity to turn retail stores and malls into more productive community spaces. In late October of this year, the office-sharing startup WeWork announced that[...]
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Bizness,
07. April 2018
Once upon a time, a startup worth $1 billion or more was considered to be a rare, almost mythical thing — a unicorn. But in the past few years, unicorns[...]
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Bizness,
07. April 2018
Exxon, Shell, and BP have announced initiatives to report the risks climate change pose to their business, bowing to shareholder pressure. The oil-and-gas giants have also rolled out investments in[...]
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Bizness,
02. April 2018
Companies face world where falling cost of solar and wind power pushes down prices Seven years after an earthquake off Japan’s eastern coast led to three meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi[...]
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Bizness,
02. April 2018
Google, Amazon, and Apple are all fighting to dominate your living room, media, and home. But their fight is making the consumer experience a lot worse. Following is a transcript[...]
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Bizness,
02. April 2018
Home automation company Ecobee and the maker of Wi-Fi-enabled smart thermostat raised a $61M Series C round led by Energy Impact Partners. Other investors include Amazon Alexa Fund, Relay Ventures,[...]
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Bizness,
02. April 2018
Tesla boosters are seeing their story tested by a deluge of negative news about the company. This distracts from what Tesla has actually achieved. The company doesn’t need to take[...]
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Bizness,
02. March 2018
“To the more established brands, it is a young upstart company with performance claims that seem unreasonably optimistic. Instead of being rooted in reality, its new sporty two-door appears to[...]
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Bizness,
02. March 2018
The Workplace Charging program will put chargers in employers’ parking lots for free. Tesla has a pretty good track record when it comes to making its chargers more accessible, but it needs[...]
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Bizness,
02. March 2018
Andre Rivera is a 20-year veteran of the auto industry who now oversees training for Tesla. He got his start in the business when General Motors and Toyota owned what’s[...]
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Bizness,
02. March 2018
John McNeill is leaving Tesla to join Lyft as COO, Bloomberg reported. He was head of sales and service at Tesla. The news broke as Tesla was conducting a Q4[...]
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Bizness,
02. March 2018
Tesla delivered $3.28 billion in revenue and losses of $4.01 per share in its fourth-quarter earnings report this afternoon. Analysts, on average, expected a loss of $3.12 per share. The[...]
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Bizness,
02. February 2018
Google had an impressive 2017 and its momentum could push it even higher in 2018, a UBS analyst notes. The company’s plays in mobile computing, AI and its cloud services[...]
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Bizness,
02. February 2018
A map of Mercedes-Benz’s production network. The facilities that will be used to make electric vehicles are highlighted in blue. Mercedes-Benz outlined how it plans to challenge Tesla as the[...]
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Bizness,
02. January 2018
Amazon made no mention of climate change in its HQ2 request for proposals, and most of the public city bids don’t address it, either. This story was originally published by the Huffington Post and[...]
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Bizness,
02. January 2018
Google already purchases more renewable energy than any other corporation, but now it has agreed to 4 new contracts that will add 536 megawatts of wind power to its energy[...]
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Bizness,
02. January 2018
IN BRIEF The world’s biggest polluter is rolling out the world’s most ambitious plan to reduce emissions. Starting from the power sector, the Chinese carbon market will progressively cover other[...]
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Bizness,
02. January 2018
Investing in low-carbon technologies can make good business sense, especially if the technology solves multiple problems, say executives at Intel, Walmart and Alphabet. Intel has invested in renewable energy and[...]
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Bizness,
02. January 2018
Cities, states, and regions across North America are vying to become the home of Amazon’s $5 billion second headquarters, a development that the company says will bring 50,000 jobs. At[...]
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Bizness,
02. December 2017
The advent of fast and reliable Internet paved the way for a more interconnected world. People now have the ability to interact with one another, no matter where they are[...]
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Bizness,
02. December 2017
Suddenly, everyone is fixated on Tesla’s cash burn. Bloomberg recently crunched the numbersand concluded that at its current pace of monetary incineration, Tesla will tap out next August. The numbers are[...]
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Bizness,
18. May 2017
Online courses will help employees to upskill as redundancies sweep away jobs – but will universities be able to keep up?
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Bizness,
18. May 2017
Disruptors don’t just need a great idea, they have to turn business models on their heads. Three disruptive entrepreneurs reveal how they did it
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