Suzuki anunció hoy que recomprará todas sus acciones en manos de la alemana Volkswagen, como respuesta a la decisión de una Corte Internacional de Arbitraje que da por terminada la alianza entre los dos fabricantes de automóviles.
El falló permite a Suzuki volver a adquirir el 19,9% de sus acciones que desde 2009 estaba en manos del grupo alemán, según reveló la compañía japonesa.
Suzuki inició en 2011 en Londres un procedimiento ante la Cámara de Comercio Internacional (ICC, siglas en inglés) para concluir su alianza con Volkswagen.
El Corte Inglés elevó sus ventas el pasado ejercicio por primera vez desde 2010. Logró aumentar sus ingresos un 2,6% con respecto al año anterior, hasta los 14.592 millones de euros, el mayor ritmo de crecimiento desde 2007. Sin embargo, los beneficios se redujeron con fuerza con respecto al 2013: ganaron 118 millones, un 32% menos. La compañía de grandes almacenes celebraba su reunión anual con el fin de aprobar estas cuentas de 2014. Pero la cita se ha convertido en una junta anual de accionistas histórica.
Our CEO, Jeff Immelt, likes to say that if you woke up as an industrial company today, you will wake up as a software and analytics company tomorrow. He doesn’t mean that you’ll be selling software; he means that software will be an important part of whatever you’re making.
At GE, we’ve spent five years and a billion dollars learning how to become a software and analytics company. We’ve learned some amazing lessons along the way, and I’d like to share some of those lessons.
La compañía, a través de su filial Aqualia, ha logrado el mayor contrato de su historia en el sector del agua, al adjudicarse la construcción y posterior explotación de una depuradora en El Cairo (Egipto).
El proyecto permite además a la compañía participada por Carlos Slim y Esther Koplowitz reforzar la presencia que ya tiene con su negocio de agua en el país.
En la actualidad, Aqualia, en consorcio con Orascom, Veolia e Icat, se ha adjudicado el contrato para diseñar, construir y posteriormente explotar durante 25 años la planta depuradora de Abu Rawash, situada en El Cairo.
Investing in startups is like bird-watching, or at least that's the quote from legendary venture capitalist Mike Moritz.
Over the past two weeks, I have listened to 146 startups pitch in rapid-fire succession at demo days for Y Combinator and 500 Startups.
Of those startups, probably five or six will emerge as the next Airbnb, Dropbox, or Reddit. The founders of the next billion-dollar startup have probably run through their pitch deck in front of me.
The rest of the flock will disappear from the sky, selling to a bigger company, going adrift, or maybe shutting down entirely.
Fuel made inexpensively through artificial photosynthesis could be the ultimate renewable energy source. Now researchers at Caltech say they have built the first prototype of an artificial leaf that is both efficient and safe. They say the device, which uses light and water to make clean hydrogen fuel, could lead to a commercially viable version in the near future.
The technology uses the sun’s energy to split water to make hydrogen for storing solar energy or for use as fuel. A photovoltaic material captures photons and generates electrons, which are passed on to chemical catalysts to do the water splitting. Nate Lewis, a professor of chemistry at Caltech, led the new research.
Science and technology have helped women and couples take control of their reproductive health and make important life decisions. We used CB Insights data to identify 13 funded private companies in the increasingly important category. The startups range from biotechnology companies, to startups marketing fertility tracking instruments, and big data applications analyzing in-vitro fertilization (IVF) probabilities. Big-name investors like Andreessen Hororowitz and Founders Fund have financed companies in this space. They both participated in a $17M Series B financing in Max Levchin’s big data startup Glow.
The table below lists the startups, what they do, and select investors.
El BOE publica la resolución de la Entidad Pública Empresarial Red.es, por la que se convocan ayudas del programa de fomento de la oferta de soluciones de computación en la nube para pequeñas y medianas empresas y se establecen las bases reguladoras de dicha convocatoria.
El nexo adjunto permite acceder al texto de la convocatoria:
The Boston tech industry is entering a new age of enterprise IT. Long known for its companies in data storage, networking, and business software, the local sector is seeing a boom in startups that have a new spin on these traditional fields.
One of them is ClearSky Data, a roughly two-year-old effort from founders Ellen Rubin and Laz Vekiarides (pictured) that is finally talking today about what it’s building. Rubin, the company’s CEO, previously worked at Netezza and co-founded CloudSwitch, while Vekiarides was a veteran of EqualLogic. All of those companies were eventually acquired for big money—by IBM, Verizon, and Dell, respectively.
Recent breakthroughs in how accurately software can recognize images and speech came thanks to additional computing power behind a technique known as deep learning. Microsoft now reports progress on an idea that could put even greater muscle behind the technique. A practical way to power up deep learning software even more could lead to further significant advances in the intelligence of machines.
