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Looking for the Next Big Market, Tesla Opens Shop in China
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - 5:29pm | 617Read More...Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk says he has no idea how well his electric car will sell in China; calling the country a “wild card.” However, since the Chinese have an appetite for large luxury cars -- and since the country suffers from high air pollution, an incentive for the government to...
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Two Tech Stories Making Headlines Thursday (AAPL, HPQ)
Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 12:10pm | 471Read More...Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) are front-and-center in tech news Thursday after two Asia-Pacific media outlets report key product offering developments. Apple The days of Apple being able to hide its upcoming products until a media event are gone, despite the company’s...
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How Safe is Buffett's BYD Electric Car?
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 8:39am | 295Read More...Questions are being asked of the e6 electric car made by the Warren Buffett-financed BYD after an accident involving one of the cars took the lives of three people. The facts are still coming in, but it appears that the incident was caused by a drunk-driver in a Nissan GT-R who was speeding at...
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Buffett's BYD Falls to Two-Month Low
Monday, March 26, 2012 - 8:54am | 443Read More...It emerged on Monday that BYD, the Chinese carmaker that is partly owned by Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) has fallen to a two-month low in Hong Kong trading, with the company forecasting 1Q profits my drop up to 95%. According to Bloomberg, BYD dropped up to 11%, the largest...
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Munger: Megalomania, Insanity Caused Financial Collapse
Saturday, July 2, 2011 - 10:23am | 213Read More...Charles Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A), is known for telling it like he sees it. At a Pasadena conference on Friday, he had a few words to say about financial sector collapse of 2008. "The bubble in America was caused by some combination of megalomania, insanity and evil...
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BYD Delivers Largest Electric Bus Fleet In History
Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 4:14pm | 139Read More...The largest fleet of electric buses is now being delivered by BYD Auto. Slated for delivery before the 2011 International Universiade Games (which take place in August), BYD will unload more than 300 eBUS-12s, making it the largest all-electric bus fleet in the world. BYD describes the eBUS as...
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Building Your Dreams One Car At A Time With BYD America VP Micheal Austin
Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 4:16pm | 1436Read More...Today's guest on Zing Talk is Vice President of BYD America, Micheal Austin. Direct Download Subscribe in iTunes Warren Buffett doesn't typically invest in new technology companies. Michael Austin: Especially not Asian – he's never invested in an Asian technology company before. Exactly....
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What's Hot On TheStreet
Monday, September 27, 2010 - 12:29pm | 319Read More...Here's what Benzinga's reading on our friend, TheStreet.com. What's Hot On TheStreet Facebook's 5 Worst Judgment Calls With more than 400 million users, Facebook is a global phenomenon. But its rise to the top of the social networking scene has been far from smooth. Anyone seeing David Fincher's...
