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Electric cars ‘next disrupter’ since iPhone

Bloomberg It’s been 10 years since Apple Inc. unleashed a surge of innovation that upended the mobile phone industry. Electric cars, with a little help from ride-hailing and self-driving technology, could be about to pull the same trick on Big Oil. The rise of Tesla Inc. and its rivals could be turbo charged by complementary services from Uber Technologies Inc. ...

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Temasek leads $300mn investment in electric scooter maker Gogoro Inc

Bloomberg Gogoro Inc., an electric scooter-maker backed by Panasonic Corp., raised $300 million from Singapore’s Temasek Holdings Pte. and other investors to pay for expansion and research and development. Generation Investment Management LLP, co-founded by Al Gore, Japan’s Sumitomo Corp., and French utility Engie SA, also invested. The new funding brings the Taiwan-based startup’s valuation to about $800 million, including ...

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Ubisoft bets on cloud, AI to stay ahead of Vivendi threat

Bloomberg Ubisoft Entertainment SA, the French video-game company that’s racked up the fifth-best performance among Stoxx 600 members this year, has a plan to keep revenue and profit growing, if it can maintain its independence from French media giant Vivendi SA. The industry will expand at a rate of 15 percent to 20 percent over the next several years, Ubisoft ...

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