Tag: state

  • Abbott: Abortion law won’t slow down business in Texas

    Abbott: Abortion law won’t slow down business in Texas

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    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott insisted on Thursday that his state’s controversial new abortion law won’t prompt blowback from the business community. “This is not slowing down businesses coming to the state of Texas at all,” Abbott said in an interview on CNBC’s "Squawk on the Street" when asked how businesses might react to the slate…

  • Market Movers: Sona Comstar sees a chaandi rally; IRCTC gets back on track

    Market Movers: Sona Comstar sees a chaandi rally; IRCTC gets back on track

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    MUMBAI: As investors keep digging for opportunities to invest in sunrise sectors, one stock that came to the limelight today is Sona BLW Precision Forgings.The newly-listed automotive parts maker is a pure-play on the upcoming electric vehicle market and according to brokerage firm Nomura Securities India, the stock is the place to be as the…

  • Gavin Newsom feared a vaccine nightmare. So he outsourced California’s rollout.

    Gavin Newsom feared a vaccine nightmare. So he outsourced California’s rollout.

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    OAKLAND — California’s vaccination rollout was sputtering this year when Gov. Gavin Newsom adopted a remedy favored by Republicans: outsourcing. Barely a month after the initial doses came, the Democrat — who wrote a book on administration innovation, and it has bemoaned California’s obsolete technology — filmed a no-bid deal with insurance giant Blue Shield…

  • The tide seems to be turning on ‘Work from Goa’ trend

    The tide seems to be turning on ‘Work from Goa’ trend

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    Mumbai: “The exodus has finally begun”, a local real estate agent told Devika Sarin recently.Sarin, the co-founder of a boutique bed and breakfast and co-working space in Goa – Curioso Studio and Suites, knew immediately what the agent was referring to.Big-city dwellers, predominantly from the startup and tech community, who had – amid a raging…

  • Pandemic reveals tale of 2 Californias like never before

    Pandemic reveals tale of 2 Californias like never before

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    SACRAMENTO — The tale of two Californias has never been clearer. As Bay Area tech workers set up home offices to avoid coronavirus exposure, grocers, farm workers and warehouse employees in the Central Valley never stopped reporting to job sites. Renters pleaded for eviction relief while urban professionals fled for suburbs and resort towns, taking…

  • The California Air Quality Guru Who Taught Business to Love the Environment

    The California Air Quality Guru Who Taught Business to Love the Environment

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    In 2011, Mary Nichols faced a dilemma. For the previous four years, she’d been working as head of the California Air Resources Board, essentially the state’s top air pollution cop, and she’d just had a big win. For decades, her state had had the strictest auto emissions controls in the country, which had helped reduce…

  • Auto Industry Pushes Bullshit Claim That ‘Right To Repair’ Laws Aid Sexual Predators

    Auto Industry Pushes Bullshit Claim That ‘Right To Repair’ Laws Aid Sexual Predators

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    A few years back, frustration at John Deere’s draconian tractor DRM culminated in a grassroots tech movement dubbed “right to repair.” The company’s crackdown on “unauthorized repairs” turned countless ordinary citizens into technology policy activists, after DRM (and the company’s EULA) prohibited the lion’s share of repair or modification of tractors customers thought they owned.…

  • Florida Teenager, Alleged ‘Mastermind’ Of Massive Mid-July Twitter Hack, Arrested And Charged

    Florida Teenager, Alleged ‘Mastermind’ Of Massive Mid-July Twitter Hack, Arrested And Charged

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    Even a 17-year-old resident of Tampa Bay, Florida, was arrested and charged Friday for the enormous Twitter hack in mid-July that caused some billionaires, politicians and celebrities to tweet instructions to donate bitcoin, also motivated Twitter to lock users that were supported from the account in reaction since they attempted to tackle the issue.  The…

  • Fiat Abruptly Withdraws $39BN Offer To Merge With Renault, Blames French State

    Fiat Abruptly Withdraws $39BN Offer To Merge With Renault, Blames French State

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    Together with the worldwide automobile industry sinking slowly into the worst regeneration since the global financial crisis, a single ray of hope surfaced a week ago when, out of the blue, Fiat Chrysler suggested a merger with French auto giant Renault, providing at least some assistance for those stocks of beleaguered automobile makers. And then,…

  • Midterms 2018: Mixed Results for the Renewable Energy Agenda

    Midterms 2018: Mixed Results for the Renewable Energy Agenda

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    Picture Credit: Shutterstock.com A majority of Americans support expanding accessibility to clean power , and yet it registers as a key voting issue. This year’s midterm election was a bit different. Healthcare, the economy have been the voter priorities in 2018, however in some races and on some ballots energy was a principal focus.  Here’s a…