Eroski ha acordado con la banca acreedora ampliar un mes, hasta el 29 de febrero de 2016, el plazo para las desinversiones no estratégicas por valor de 300 millones de euros que se incluyeron en el acuerdo de refinanciación de su deuda de hace un año.
En un hecho relevante comunicado hoy a la CNMV, la cooperativa vasca ha asegurado que ya ha recibido ofertas que le permiten cumplir el compromiso de desinversiones por 300 millones, pero que la "complejidad de los procesos" puede provocar una demora, por lo que se ha decido ampliar en un mes el plazo establecido.
El grupo Eroski y la banca acreedora firmaron en enero de 2015 un acuerdo de reestructuración de su deuda financiera de más 2.600 millones de euros.
La querella interpuesta el lunes por el Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos contra Volkswagen por delitos medioambientales incluye cuatro tipos de sanciones que multiplican las multas a las que se enfrenta la automovilística en este país hasta los 90.000 millones de dólares (84.000 millones de euros), por encima de lo presupuestado anteriormente.
La demanda civil fue presentada por el Departamento de Justicia en un tribunal federal de Detroit (Michigan), en nombre de la Agencia de Protección Medioambiental (EPA, por sus siglas en inglés), por “impedir y obstaculizar” los controles federales de emisiones contaminantes.
In a 2013 survey of nearly 700 executives across a variety of industries, our firm asked respondents to rate the effectiveness of the top leaders of their companies. How many excelled at strategy? How many excelled at execution? The results are shown in the chart below. These responses are sobering: Only 16% of top leaders were rated very effective at either strategy or execution. Only 8% were very effective at both, while 63% were rated neutral or worse on at least one dimension.
We have known for some time that cancer is not a static, monolithic disease. Instead, we now think of cancer as heterogeneous. Each patient’s cancer may arise from widely dissimilar origins, even in patients with the same type of tumor.
“Ask chief executives why their companies are performing so well, and they’ll typically credit a brilliant strategy coupled with hard-nosed, diligent execution. When you ask Lars Sørensen of Novo Nordisk what forces propelled him to the top of HBR’s 2015 ranking of the best-performing CEOs in the world, he cites something very different: luck.”
So begins our recent profile of the best performing CEO of 2015. Sørensen’s modesty is refreshing, but is it accurate?
eneral Electric (NYSE:GE) agreed to buy Metem to boost its turbine engine competitiveness, wrapping up yet more M&A in a notably busy year for the conglomerate.
Parsippany, N.J.-based Metem is a privately held company that provides technology that improves turbine efficiency. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in Q1 of next year, weren't disclosed.
Just how much impact can one university have on the global economy. Apparently, quite a bit. A new December 2015 study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reports that MIT's alumni entrepreneurs generate annual revenues of roughly $1.9 trillion.
The self-driving car is a huge computational problem. It’s so tough that traditional computer vision techniques don’t work tackling it. So Nvidia has turned to an artificial intelligence technique, dubbed deep learning, to train brain-like computers that can learn how to identify hazards on a road and safely direct a self-driving car.
Volvo will purchase several hundred Nvidia Drive PX2 car supercomputers as part of an effort to develop self-driving cars.
Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of graphics chip maker Nvidia, revealed the news at the company’s press conference on the eve of the 2016 International CES, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week.
The new PX2 supercomputer uses an Nvidia Pascal graphics processing unit, GPU, and it has 12 central processing units, or CPUs. The supercomputer can handle eight teraflops.
Huang said it will lead to safer driving, new mobility services, and the redesign of urban architecture.
If the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration allows the widespread use of commercial drones, the skies could soon buzz with swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles–especially in dense urban cores. That means drones will be tasked with autonomously avoiding collisions, as their numbers will be too high to rely on human air-traffic controllers at all times.
The Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory is just one team of more than 130 working with NASA to solve how to manage drone traffic. The traffic-management system, which will be under development for the next few years, will help drones communicate with each other and avoid potential collisions.
