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Energica CEO plots her Italian EV company’s reboot from lockdown

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general manager ( Stefano Benatti ) — filled more orders in the first two months of 2020 than all its sales for 2019, according to Cevolini. Harley Davidson introduced its all electric $29K LiveWire in 2019, becoming the first of the big gas manufacturers to offer a street-legal e-moto for sale in the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Claiming a landmark in fusion energy, TAE Technologies sees commercialization by 2030

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Six years ago, the company had proved that its reactor design could sustain plasma indefinitely — meaning that once the switch is flipped on a reaction, that fusion reaction can continue indefinitely. By 2008, the first construction began on integrated experiments to make a plasma core and infuse it with some energetic particles.

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Cohu Buys Semiconductor Firm

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said today that the firm's Delta Design subsidiary has agreed to acquire Rasco GmbH, a developer of semiconductor test equipment based in Munich, Germany. Cohu said that Rasco had sales of approximately $47M for the twelve months ended November 2008. Poway-based Cohu, Inc. Cohu was advised by Needham & Company in the deal.

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Teledyne Buys Instrumentation Firm

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Teledyne said that Baton Rouge-based Odom has designs and manufactures equipment for port survey, dredging, offshore energy and other applications. Odom had sales of roughly $10.9M for its fiscal year ended September 30, 2008. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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The New Style of Startup Vision: Smaller But Sharper?

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Facebook, for example, decided in 2008 that its mission was to “help you connect and share with the people in your life.” The company started as an idea in 2019, but by early 2020 it had “launched a new technical solution that ultimately controls and accelerates sales opportunity management,” says Dawes.

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How RxVantage's IT Software Aims To Automate A $20B Market

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RxVantage (www.rxvantage.com), based in Los Angeles, is looking to tackle that huge market with its medical scheduling software for pharmaceutical and medical sales reps and medical offices, and is venture backed by Slater Technology Fund and Javelin Venture Partners. The company was born out of the inefficiency in the system. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

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We were crowd sourcing artists and design. But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. Jimmy Hendricks: We make a percentage of every sale. Jimmy Hendricks: My background is I spent a year at Active.com in 2007 and 2008. How do clients license your software?

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