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Ford defends plan to shareholders: ‘We're simply reinventing the American car’

Ford’s top executives took heat from shareholders over their plan to do away with sedans as we know them in Ford’s North American lineup, as the company held its annual meeting Thursday. Critics said the plan to shelve the Fiesta, Focus and Taurus, reduce the Focus to one crossover model, and concentrate on high-margin trucks and SUVs was a shortsighted abandonment of entire market segments of affordable vehicles. …read more […]

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Nvidia Reveals Crypto Sales for First Time and Predicts Big Drop

Nvidia Corp. revealed for the first time how much revenue it generated from chip sales to the cryptocurrency market — and said that figure will be much smaller in the second quarter. Demand from cryptocurrency miners was stronger-than-expected in the first quarter and translated into revenue of $289 million, Nvidia said Thursday on its earnings conference call. “Crypto miners bought a lot of our GPUs in the quarter and it drove prices up,” Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said on a conference call. …read more […]

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Exclusive: Hedge fund Third Point seeks to launch ‘blank-check’ company – sources

(Reuters) – Daniel Loeb’s activist hedge fund Third Point LLC is in talks with investment banks about launching a “blank check” company that would raise money in an initial public offering to pursue an acquisition, according to people familiar with the matter.

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