Japan earthquake: The tiny firm that alerts millions about disasters
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Tesla on two wheels? India’s Ola Electric feels the strains of success | Reuters News Agency
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Season upon season, watermelons, carrots and corn have sprouted from Daniel Rudnick’s 255-acre farm along Interstate 5 in Buttonwillow, Calif. Now, the ground lies unplanted. In the next year, it will be cleared and graded to build a 4-million-square-foot warehouse complex. “Our plan all along was that we were going to leverage the value of…
