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Bezos Earth Fund will fund efforts to protect the planet from effects of climate change.
CNET
Some 242 people died from the new coronavirus in the Chinese province of Hubei on Wednesday - the deadliest day since the outbreak began. There was also a huge increase in the number of cases, with 14,840 people diagnosed with the virus.
BBC News
The crowd is now buying on the news of the coronavirus slowing, even though the stock market is higher now than when the coronavirus first emerged.
MarketWatch
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned top officials last week that efforts to contain the new coronavirus had gone too far, threatening the country's economy, sources told Reuters, days before Beijing rolled out measures to soften the blow.
Reuters
Talk of the risk of the world's two major powers "decoupling" surfaced as their trade battle, which began in 2018, heated up - leading to billions of dollars of tariffs imposed on each other's goods.
CNBC
Intel is investing heavily in "smart buildings" in Israel that will be full of perks to keep employees happy, helping the U.S. chipmaker compete for the country's top professionals.
Reuters
The new company is called Prime Planet Energy and Solutions.
Ars Technica
6 Dec 2019
Tariffs on solar panels imposed nearly two years ago by President Donald Trump to boost U.S. manufacturing are now the focus of a battle in Washington over whether the measures should be amended.
Yahoo! Finance
Tesla has unveiled its "Cybertruck" pickup truck, but not without an embarrassing moment on stage.
BBC News
A secretive startup backed by Bill Gates has achieved a solar breakthrough aimed at saving the planet.
CNN
The EU has agreed to extend Brexit until 31 January 2020, according to a tweet from the European Council president. Donald Tusk said the bloc would allow for a so-called "flextension" - meaning the UK could leave before the deadline if a deal was approved by Parliament.
BBC News
Shares spiked more tan 20% after Tesla posted the surprise profit and said it was ahead of schedule with a new factory in Shanghai.
CNBC
China's economy grew at its slowest pace since the early 1990s in the third quarter, official figures showed. In the three months to September, the economy expanded 6% from a year earlier, falling just short of expectations for 6.1% growth.
BBC News
It meanders on its own accord and shows passengers the world in a whole different light.
CNET
Tesla is acquiring computer vision startup DeepScale, CNBC has learned.
CNBC
Apple's new iPhones will use recycled rare earth elements in a key component, the company said on Wednesday.
Reuters
From Portugal to Paris to Poland electric scooters have invaded Europe, but it's far from a smooth ride.
CNET
Starting at $50 per month with a $1,500 removal fee
The Verge
China's STAR Market kicked off its second day of trading on Tuesday with sharp falls in most listed shares a day after they posted average gains of 140%, underscoring the volatility of the country's new Nasdaq-style board.
Reuters
According to figures from the data research firm Rhodium Group, investment from China hit an all-time high of $46.5 billion in 2016. The following year that amount dropped to $29.7 billion before plummeting to a nine-year low of $5.4 billion in 2018. During that two-year period, investment declined 88 percent.
The Hill
China is expected to report on Monday that economic growth slowed to its weakest pace in at least 27 years in the second quarter, reinforcing the case for more stimulus as a bruising trade war with the United States drags on.
Reuters
Tesla returned to growth mode in the second quarter, setting a record for deliveries and beating Wall Street's expectations, relieving some pressure on CEO Elon Musk to prove that demand remains strong for the electric-car maker's vehicles.
Wall Street Journal
The US and China have tentatively agreed to another truce in their trade war in order to resume talks aimed at resolving the dispute, sources familiar with the situation said.
South China Morning Post
FOX Business' Connell McShane talks to China Commerce Ministry senior official Wang Hejun about the trade war and the Chinese economy.
Fox Business
The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday reported that its contacts at companies across the country were worried that international trade tensions could weigh on business even as economic activity picked up.
Reuters
A top business lobby group representing American firms in China said they have "real concerns" over how Beijing may respond to US action taken against Huawei. Speaking to the BBC, AmCham China chairman Tim Stratford said its members were worried about Beijing's response.
BBC News
Scientific breakthrough leads to record low costs for essential battery ingredient
South China Morning Post
Donald Trump has said he will raise tariffs on US$200 billion of Chinese goods, because talks on a US-China trade deal are moving "too slowly."
BBC News
The orbiting station will harvest power directly from the sun.
engadget
In an open letter to Tesla staff, CEO Elon Musk announced the automaker is laying off 7% of its full-time work force, or more than 3,000 people. It's an effort, Musk wrote, to streamline the company and prepare it for tough times ahead.
Wired
Producing vehicles in China would reduce costs from tariffs and ocean transport for Tesla, as it faces rising competition from local electric automakers.
CNBC
Tesla chief executive officer Elon Musk reiterated that Singapore has been "unwelcome" to the company, doubling down on his previous assertions that the government is not supportive of electric vehicles.
Bloomberg (via The Strait Times)
UK Prime Minister Theresa May will face a vote of confidence in her leadership on Wednesday. She said a new prime minister would have to scrap or extend Article 50, the mechanism taking Britain out of the EU on 29 March, "delaying or even stopping Brexit".
BBC News
The European Court of Justice has ruled the UK can cancel Brexit without the permission of the other 27 EU members.
BBC News
Google's self-driving car project has announced a driverless commercial taxi service.
The Telegraph
The US and China have agreed to suspend plans to impose new tariffs on January 1.
BBC News
Tesla has cut prices in China by as much as a quarter to absorb the impact of the US-China trade war.
The Financial Times
ITRI received three 2018 R&D 100 Awards on November 16 in Orlando, Florida. ITRI's technologies were selected as winners for innovation in the Software/Services, IT/Electrical, and Mechanical Devices/Materials categories.
Company release
Ford Motor said it acquired Spin, a San Francisco-based scooter-sharing company. For Ford, the deal adds scooters to a sprawling array of future transportation services, which already include autonomous vehicles and on-demand shuttles.
Bloomberg
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