Mike Speiser Source: CNBC Venture capitalist Mike Speiser had a historic 2020. His firm, Sutter Hill Ventures, turned an initial investment of less than $200 million in Snowflake into a stake worth $12 billion after its IPO in September. Sutter Hill amassed its fortune in the cloud software vendor in a unique way. The typical
Month: January 2021
John Lennon was “bubbling over with excitement” about returning to the UK in a phone call the night before he was assassinated in New York, according to a newly released letter by his aunt. The former Beatle was shot and killed outside his home in Manhattan on 8 December 1980 by Mark Chapman. The following
Portugual-born 29-year-old Antonio Felix da Costa is currently the reigning champion of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. Antonio has been with the open-wheeled electric racing league since its inaugural season in 2014. While we wait in anticipation of the 2020-21 season beginning next month, and on the heels of Antonio and electric scooter-manufacturer
Nicola Sturgeon has accused Boris Johnson of being “frightened of democracy” and said she will seek a “legal referendum” on Scottish independence. Scotland’s first minister claimed the prime minister “fears the verdict and the will of the Scottish people” over his refusal to agree to another independence vote. It comes after the Scottish National Party
It is still a “long, long, long way” before coronavirus cases are low enough for lockdown to be lifted, the health secretary has told Sky News. Matt Hancock said “early evidence” shows tough restrictions around the UK are starting to bring the number of new infections down, but he warned the NHS remains under “enormous”
Eleven gold miners have been rescued a fortnight after they were trapped by an underground explosion in China, according to state media reports. It is not known how many others are still alive in the mine. State media footage showed the first miner to be rescued, a black blindfold across his eyes, being lifted out
January 24th, 2021 by NRDC Originally published on the NRDC Expert Blog.By Nathanael Greene This is the year offshore wind goes from learning to walk to an all-out sprint. The first two weeks of 2021 contained big news for this critical source of clean energy, and this week’s inauguration of President Joe Biden will put
GRUENHEIDE, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 03: Tesla head Elon Musk talks to the press as he arrives to to have a look at the construction site of the new Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin on September 03, 2020 near Gruenheide, Germany. Musk is currently in Germany where he met with vaccine maker CureVac on Tuesday, with which
January 23rd, 2021 by Zachary Shahan Tripling Solar Cell Production JinkoSolar, one of the largest solar module producers in the world, is ramping up its solar cell production tremendously. It is building a 20 gigawatt solar cell factory that is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2021. The factory is being built
The state of the special relationship between Britain and America under a Biden presidency has been the focus of intense speculation. Joe Biden and Boris Johnson are not political bedfellows. Mr Biden has referred to Mr Johnson as the physical and emotional clone of Donald Trump and is no fan of Brexit. But Saturday’s phone
Tesla is suing a recently hired software engineer who the company claims has stolen critical automated software from its WARP Drive ERP system. Tesla WARP Drive While most automakers use commonly known enterprise software from third parties like SAP, Tesla instead decided to build its own from scratch. Tesla’s longtime chief information officer Jay Vijayan,
Boris Johnson has spoken to the newly inaugurated US President Joe Biden in a Saturday evening phone call to Washington DC. After the call, the prime minister tweeted: “Great to speak to President Joe Biden this evening. “I look forward to deepening the longstanding alliance between our two countries as we drive a green and
US President Joe Biden speaks about the Covid-19 response as US Vice President Kamala Harris (L) looks on before signing executive orders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 21, 2021. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images Like many in the tech industry, Amazon has cozied up
Asos, the online fashion retailer, has emerged as the surprise frontrunner to buy TopShop from the administrators to Sir Philip Green’s former high street empire. Sky News has learnt that Asos has moved into pole position to buy the brand for more than £250m, days after a consortium led by Next withdrew from the race.
Hydrogen is set to play a major role in the global energy markets over the coming decades, supplanting a large chunk of oil demand, according to Bank of America’s head of global thematic research. Speaking to CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Friday morning, Haim Israel accepted that while oil and gas would still be needed
Apple adds more functions to the iPhone every year, but the more it can do, the more complicated it gets. If you recently got a new iPhone after sitting out several generations — or maybe just don’t fiddle around with your phone a lot — you might be missing out on some easy ways to
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