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Boeing delivers US missile interceptor after years of delays

Bloomberg Boeing Co delivered a missile interceptor for US’s ground-based system three years late after overcoming vexing subcontractor quality problems, congressional auditors said. The delivery in December, which wasn’t previously announced, followed “production challenges” because “the boost vehicle contractor mishandled a key avionics component and had to build a new one,” the Government Accountability Office said in its annual report …

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Ex-Amazon worker found guilty in Capital One hack

  Bloomberg A former Amazon Web Services worker was convicted of hacking into the company’s cloud servers to steal customer data and computer power that she used to mine cryptocurrency. Following a week-long trial in Seattle, Paige A. Thompson, 36, was found guilty of seven federal crimes, including wire fraud, which carries a prison sentence of as long as 20 …

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Zara’s pink party dresses are made from greenhouse gases

  Bloomberg Released by Inditex’s Zara as part of a limited clothing collection, the little pink number costs $90 and is sourced, in part, from captured carbon emissions. It’s also officially sold out. Carbon and other greenhouse-gas emissions are, for lack of a better description, the worst. The buildup of these gases in recent decades is starting to reshape every …

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Aerojet CEO backed by ISS in proxy fight

Bloomberg Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Eileen Drake has received backing from the Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) for her slate of candidates battling for board seats in a proxy fight with the US rocket-engine maker’s chairman. In a shareholder letter, Drake and three other independent directors said the ISS, a provider of proxy research and vote recommendations to the …

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Inflation turns EVs into luxury items

  Bloomberg Electric-vehicle (EV) prices are going up at a dizzying pace these days. Tesla raised prices by as much as $6,000 per car this week. Rivian bumped up the ask on its battery-powered R1T pickup truck in March, while Ford hiked the sticker on the Mach-E. Add it all up and an electric car now costs $61,000 on average, according …

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About a third of vehicles sold in India to be electric by 2030

  Bloomberg Close to a third of all vehicles sold in India are expected to be electric by 2030, but they will mostly be two- and three-wheelers, as expensive battery-powered cars would be outside the reach of many consumers in the world’s fourth-largest automobile market. By that time, nearly one in every 10 electric vehicles sold worldwide will be in …

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Ferrari to launch electric car in 2025

  Bloomberg Ferrari NV will introduce its first fully electric model in 2025 as the Italian carmaker accelerates its shift away from combustion engines. The Italian luxury sports car manufacturer expects adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization to climb to as much as 2.7 billion euros ($2.8 billion) in 2026, an increase from 1.5 billion euros last year, …

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Microsoft rolls out a new app for corporate sales reps

  Bloomberg Microsoft Corp introduced Viva Sales, a new program meant to connect its Office and video conferencing programs with customer-relationship management software — its own and that of rivals, a step that could help it garner revenue from Salesforce Inc. clients. The program, available to preview next month, lets users of customer management programs synchronise information between those products …

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Oil falls as Fed signals even more hawkishness ahead

Bloomberg Oil falls the most in 5 weeks as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reiterated his will to curb the hottest inflation in decades with more aggressive rate hikes. West Texas Intermediate dropped to near $110, shedding as much as 6.3%. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell this week openly endorsed for the first time raising interest rates well into restrictive …

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