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AlixPartners study finds post-crisis auto industry facing new set of challenges; sales projected below historical levels for foreseeable future

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This will put unprecedented pressure on all players to pick the right business models, the right legal and capital structures, and the right partners. Emerging nations have gone from being just sources of cheap parts and labor to being bona fide markets, not to mention bona fide competitors. One thing is for certain.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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by-9 meter) screens displaying a computer-generated representation of New York Harbor, complete with buildings, piers, movable buoys, changing weather conditions, and other ships to be avoided. Only when the simulator hardware was ready would they build a compiler to translate the database into the appropriate machine language.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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Capital cost to build a 10k metric-ton battery precursor plant. The DRC’s cost competitiveness comes from its relatively cheap access to land and low engineering, procurement and construction, or EPC, cost compared to the US, Poland and China. This is three times cheaper than what a similar plant in the US would cost. Source: BNEF.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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On February 11, 1955, an anonymous tip led two New York Police Department detectives and two New York Telephone Company investigators to an apartment on the fourth floor of a residential building at 360 East 55th Street in midtown Manhattan. It was also entirely legal to hire someone else to do it for you. Bettmann/Getty Images.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Unfortunately, this conference focused primarily on setting a cap on carbon emissions and providing financial aid to developing countries to build capacities to adapt to the negative impacts of climate change. Other transaction costs include the search of partners, the drafting of contracts, legal assistance, etc. Scenario No.