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SEC issues cease-and-desist order against split-cycle engine developer Scuderi Group for violations of Securities Act

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The engine has two crossover passages that connect the two cylinders, which separate the four strokes of the pistons. The company’s private placement memoranda informed investors that Scuderi Group intended to use the proceeds from its offerings for “general corporate purposes, including working capital.” Earlier post.).

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SpaceX and Dish’s Super-Shady War for the World

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Or—given the outsize personalities involved (including Elon Musk and Michael Dell) and the epic, five-year duration of the dispute to date—maybe more like a space opera. But the corporates fighting over it recently cranked up their clashing. rtay, who was writing about spectrum sharing in 2002. Ofcom, the U.K.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

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In a new study, KPMG International has identified 10 “megaforces” that will significantly affect corporate growth globally over the next two decades. Total environmental cost 2010 vs growth in environmental cost since 2002 vs environmental intensity improvement. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge.

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The Sneaky Standard

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Personal computing has changed a lot in the past four decades, and one of the biggest changes, perhaps the most unheralded, comes down to compatibility. To this day, PCI slots are used to connect network cards, sound cards, disc controllers, and other peripherals to computer motherboards via a bus that carries data and control signals.

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First drive: Volvo XC90 T8 Drive-E Twin Engine PHEV sets a high bar for full-size luxury SUV plug-ins in US

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Combining Volvo’s new design language, advanced safety and in-car connectivity technologies, and the new strategic Drive-E powertrains, the XC90 is the first product based on Volvo’s new strategic Scalable Product Architecture (SPA). Volvo Car Corporation was founded in Sweden in 1927. Click to enlarge. Background. Earlier post.).

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OLA S1 Electric Scooter Ownership Blog

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Nor am I, a corporate slave earning huge money, climbing the corporate ladder. On Feb 28th 2002, i got a message saying the scooter has left the factory. I got a call from them on March 6th for some OTP verification and the next day the person came home to verify my original documents. That pisses me off. Stay tuned.

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