DOE announces $100 million for clean energy technologies
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NREL effort aims to cut the cost of CSP technology by focusing on heliogens
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OnlyFans: blue cast lures eyeballs, deters ads
OnlyFans is a profitable, billion-dollar digital platform. It is also best known for pornography. For most venture capitalists and advertisers, the second point outweighs the first. But the exit of founder Tim Stokely could lead OnlyFans to try shaking off its reputation of being “not safe for work” in a bid to raise advertising revenue.…
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Omicron has revealed a world still underprepared
Around this time two years ago, the first reports surfaced of a worrying respiratory virus in Wuhan, China. The world has since developed effective vaccines against coronavirus, and governments have a long playlist of measures to suppress outbreaks. Yet many are groping to respond to the galloping Omicron variant in ways that recall the pandemic’s…
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Brussels seeks €12bn annual revenues from EU carbon trading scheme
Brussels wants to take a €12bn annual slice of the EU’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) and use it to repay recovery fund debts and support vulnerable households, as the European Commission makes a pitch for fresh revenue streams from member states. Proposals from the commission would also give it the lion’s share of the new…
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The search for climate-savvy board directors
This article is an on-site version of our Moral Money newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox. Visit our Moral Money hub for all the latest ESG news, opinion and analysis from around the FT As an eventful year draws to a close, we’ve been reflecting on some of…
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Delivery Hero exits Germany for second time, citing high costs
Berlin-based Delivery Hero is withdrawing from the German market for the second time in three years, citing rising rider costs and increased competition in the food delivery business in its home country. The ten-year-old company, which is Germany’s most valuable listed start-up, said it would wind down its Foodpanda brand in Europe’s largest economy, and…
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Apple loses bid at SEC to block three shareholder proposals
The Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected Apple’s petition to block three shareholder proposals from going to a vote at its next annual meeting — a win for activists that signals trouble for other US companies hoping the regulator will allow them to fend off unwanted attention. The resolutions call for detailed reports regarding allegations…
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Stablecoin News for the week ending Wednesday 22nd December.
Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. As this will be the last edition of this weekly summary for 2021, I thought a good place to start would be with these two excellent summaries of where we are with CBDC’s. Firstly on the Retail side, where consumers hold…
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China tech stocks stage muted rebound
Hong Kong-listed Chinese tech stocks rose for the second day in a row on Wednesday, continuing a rebound from a sell-off triggered by regulatory action in the US and China. Video streaming platform Bilibili led gains, rising by as much as 8.3 per cent in early trading. That was followed by ecommerce group Alibaba, which…
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