(White House updates numbers of evacuees) By Idrees Ali and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) – The United States has enlisted the help of six commercial airlines to help transport people after their evacuation from Afghanistan as Washington seeks to step up the pace of departures of Americans and at-risk Afghans from Kabul. The Pentagon said on Sunday it called up 18 civilian aircraft from United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air and others to carry people from temporary locations… Source link
Read More »Palantir Reports 49% Revenue Growth; US Commercial Revenue Up 90% Y/Y
DENVER, August 12, 2021–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE:PLTR) today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2021. Q2 2021 Highlights Total revenue grew 49% year-over-year to $376 million US commercial revenue grew 90% year-over-year Closed 62 deals of $1 million or more, of which: 20 net new customers added in Q2 2021, total customers up 13% quarter-over-quarter Commercial customer count increased 32% quarter-over-quarter Cash flow from operations of $23… Source link
Read More »China plans to build the first ‘clean’ commercial nuclear reactor
Are you intrigued by the possibility of using nuclear reactors to curb emissions, but worried about their water use and long-term safety? There might be an impending solution. LiveScience reports that China has outlined plans to build the first ‘clean’ commercial nuclear reactor using liquid thorium and molten salt. The first prototype reactor should be ready in August, with the first tests due in September. A full-scale commercial reactor should be ready by 2030. The technology should not… Source link
Read More »‘This is our global commercial’
As the cameras panned in and out of commercial breaks during Game 3 of the NBA Finals on July 11, ESPN was still advertising something — just not a product. Instead, the cameras focused on a neighborhood filled with Milwaukee Bucks fans gathered for a watch party reminiscent of a European soccer crowd. “I think in our wildest dreams, we couldn’t imagine that we have more people outside than we’d have inside,” Bucks and Fiserv Forum President Peter Feigin told Yahoo Finance Live on… Source link
Read More »Virgin Galactic moves one step closer to commercial space flights
By Rich McKay (Reuters) – Flying at Mach 3 and reaching more than 55 miles above the Earth Saturday, British billionaire Sir Richard Branson’s private spaceship company Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc completed its first manned space flight from its new home port in New Mexico. This is a milestone in Branson’s near two-decades effort to create a commercial “spaceline” to take paying customers into outer space. Touted as the first human spaceflight from the state, Branson’s SpaceShipTwo craft… Source link
Read More »Google Doubles Down on Commercial Real Estate With $7 Billion Nationwide Investment
Google isn’t ready to give up on the traditional workplace just yet: The massive tech company has just announced plans to spend over $7 billion this year on offices and data centers across the U.S. “Coming together in person to collaborate and build community is core to Google’s culture, and it will continue to be an important part of our future,” CEO Sundar Pichai said in a recent blog post. “So we continue to make significant investments in our offices around the country.” The… Source link
Read More »Google ‘throwing its weight around’ by burying links to some commercial news sites, experts say
Google has decided to hide some Australian news sites from its search results, in a move that is being interpreted as a response to the Australian Government attempting to make the tech giant pay for original news content. Key points: Google is currently burying links to some Australian commercial news sites The company says the “experiment” only affects about 1 per cent of Australian users Experts say tech giant is “throwing its weight around” while under pressure to pay for local news content
Read More »Stock-Market Titans Amazon, Google and Facebook Are Also Driving Commercial Real Estate
The biggest U.S. tech companies are providing a jolt to the slumbering commercial real-estate business, emerging as major tenants and acquirers of office and other space while many nontech firms are trying to tear up their leases. Five of the biggest property owners in the tech industry—Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc., Apple Inc., Google parent Alphabet Inc. and Microsoft Corp.—together occupy around 589 million square feet of U.S. real estate, according to CoStar Group. That is… Source link
Read More »First commercial passenger flight from UAE lands in Israel
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The first commercial passenger flight to Israel by a carrier from the United Arab Emirates landed near Tel Aviv on Monday, further cementing a normalization deal between the two countries. Etihad Airways Flight No. 9607 landed at Israel’s Ben-Gurion international airport just after 7 a.m. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner departed for Abu Dhabi later Monday with an Israeli travel and tourism delegation on board, according to an Etihad statement. Etihad said it plans regular… Source link
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