Waymo, formerly known as the Google self-driving car project, is preparing to roll out more than 62,000 autonomous Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivans. The mobility services company is expanding its partnership with Fiat Chrysler in a deal that may include licensing Waymo’s technology and services so they can be incorporated in FCA vehicles. “FCA is committed […]
Read moreNext Monday during its developer conference Apple will introduce a new feature for iPhones and iPads called “Digital Health,” Bloomberg said on Thursday. Digital Health — said to launch as part of Apple’s new iOS 12 operating system — will reportedly help users manage how much time they spend on their iPhones and iPads with […]
Read moreMillennials increasingly face a difficult decision: pay off student loans or buy a home. That’s because doing both is increasingly impossible. Thanks to soaring college costs starting in the early 2000s, millennials, more than any other generation, were forced to take out massive student loans to pay for their degrees. A decade or so later, […]
Read moreThere are a lot of books out there on Warren Buffett but, if the Oracle of Omaha had to choose his favorite, he would say Lawrence Cunningham’s “The Essays of Warren Buffett.” It’s “the most representative book on my views,” Buffett said at the 2000 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting, “because he essentially has taken my […]
Read moreSYDNEY, Australia — Amazon’s decision to deny Australians access to its main website has set off a backlash in the country, with customers complaining they may face big price increases and a loss of access to sorely needed products. The e-commerce giant made the move, which it announced on Thursday, in response to changes to […]
Read moreSpanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s hours in office appeared numbered on Thursday after reports that a Basque political party would back a no-confidence vote over a corruption case, paving the way for Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez to take power. Cadena Ser radio and La Sexta television reported on Thursday that the Basque Nationalist Party would […]
Read moreWarren Buffett told CNBC on Wednesday that it was true his Berkshire Hathaway considered investing in the privately held ride-hailing company Uber earlier this year, but he wasn’t always so enthusiastic about the sharing economy. During Berkshire’s 2014 annual meeting, Buffett handled a question about whether the disruptive business model used by Airbnb and Uber […]
Read moreTHE single-storey main branch of the Texas Hill Country Bank, in Kerrville, sits at the back of a tired shopping centre, in the shade of a six-storey Wells Fargo building. When Roy Thompson, the chief executive, was hired (from Wells) in 2012, three years after it opened, he ran a radio ad campaign to alert […]
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AT THE annual World Series of Poker, which begins this week in Las Vegas, the main event is the no-limit Texas hold ’em tournament. In the course of two weeks of gruelling knock-out play, several thousand players are whittled down to just two, playing “heads-up” for one of the WSOP’s coveted bracelets. In last year’s […]
Read moreIT IS a classic startup story, but with a twist. Three 20-somethings launched a firm out of a dorm room at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016, with the goal of using algorithms to predict the reply to an e-mail. In May they were fundraising for their startup, EasyEmail, when Google held its annual […]
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