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A Knee Injury Launched This VR Pioneer’s Career

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The news was devastating, she says, but the same year she started as an intern at Teleprovenca, a Venezuelan company that provided computing services to large corporations. But she found the corporate structure too restrictive. She excelled in the role and was promoted from intern to manager in less than two years.

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Former GM Engineer Explains Industry's Pathway To Planned Obsolescence And Disposable Cars

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In all cases, he claimed that the surrounding corporate culture made it difficult for him to do what he considered an effective job — resulting in his going solo to reverse engineer problematic components and create new solutions as an industry consultant. Chello claimed he saw a lot of examples like this while employed by the company.

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Better Place closes $200M Series C financing; valuation now $2.25B

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Better Place, a developer and provider of electric car networks—including battery switch stations, batteries and public/personal charge spots ( earlier post )—worldwide, has secured $200 million through a Series C equity financing from a consortium of top-tier investors and partners, nearly doubling the company’s valuation to $2.25

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Volvo Car Corporation, Ericsson and partners in plug-in vehicle smart on-board charging research project

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Volvo Car Corporation, Ericsson, the utility company Göteborg Energi and the Viktoria Institute are collaborating in the research project ELVIIS (Electric Vehicle Intelligent Infra Structure) to develop a concept for using intelligent infrastructure for the smart on-board charging of plug-in vehicles.

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SolarCity and Honda to finance $50M more in solar projects for Honda and Acura customers and dealerships

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SolarCity and Honda have renewed their partnership with a new fund expected to finance $50 million in solar projects. The companies have already completed or initiated a range of solar projects for homeowners, dealerships and corporate facilities that total more than 12.5 Earlier post.) MW of solar generation capacity. Earlier post.)

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Toyota Blockchain Lab accelerating blockchain technology initiatives and external collaboration

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Toyota Motor Corporation and Toyota Financial Services Corporation launched a cross-Group virtual organization, Toyota Blockchain Lab, in April 2019. TRI-AD), TOYOTA Connected Corporation, and Toyota Motor North America, Inc., and relationship-building with partner companies.

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This 1945 TV Console Showed Two Programs at Once

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RELATED: In 1926, TV Was Mechanical When the Radio Corporation of America acquired De Forest Radio in 1931, DuMont started his own laboratory in his basement, where he worked on improving cathode ray tubes. The company produced cathode ray oscilloscopes, which helped finance his experiments with television. DuMont Laboratories.