China Detains a Top Executive at Evergrande’s Electric-Vehicle Unit

The firm’s executive chair said HS2’s costs had risen so much over the past decade because of poor cost estimating, changes to the project’s scope, some poor delivery and the impact of inflation. He added that decisions to delay parts of the project for cashflow reasons, could end up meaning they cost more, and that…

Merck & Co.has struck a deal to buy clinical-stage immunotherapy company Harpoon Therapeutics for about $680 million. Merck on Monday said it will pay $23 a share in cash for Harpoon, more than double Friday’s closing price of $10.55 for the South San Francisco, Calif., company. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights…

Listen to article (1 minute) Drones are more likely to be buzzing overhead this year if you live in Dallas. Walmart plans to offer drone delivery to most of the region this year, a major expansion of its effort in recent years to provide the delivery option to some customers in several states. Copyright ©2024…

AutomotiveBusiness & Finance 28 November 2023, 4:40 am 1 minute Reuters reported that Bhavish Aggarwal, India’s answer to Elon Musk, is racing to roll out millions of electric scooters and speed his nation to a cleaner future. Some of his mechanics can’t keep up, though. Aggarwal’s Ola Electric, which he likens to Tesla in the…

Hacked accounts pinned the tweets promoting the giveaway scam to the top of their profiles or retweeted the posts. Other accounts that were hit included rappers Wiz Khalifa and the late XXXTentacion; boxer Floyd Mayweather; and billionaires Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, and Warren Buffett. “Twitter locked down the account immediately following the breach and removed…

Horizon victims hope a new mini-series will give their story the “oxygen it deserves”.