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The rise and fall of the "Nifty Fifty" stocks in the 1970s is a cautionary tale for investors in the Magnificent Seven craze, according to BCA Research. The "Nifty Fifty" refers to a loose group of stocks including Coca-Cola , IBM , Xerox and Pfizer , that rose to prominence in the 1970 to 1973 bull market. The comments from BCA come as the Magnificent Seven stocks continue powering the market to new heights despite a modest pullback this summer. The surge stems from ongoing bets around growth stocks and the artificial intelligence theme, especially as the Federal Reserve begins cutting rates. NVDA YTD mountain Nvidia in 2024 There are plenty of differences between the Nifty Fifty and the Magnificent Seven, Peta said, including megacap tech names' longer track record of outperforming the market.
Persons: Doug Peta, BCA's, Peta Organizations: BCA Research, IBM, Xerox, Pfizer, BCA, Federal Reserve, Nvidia
Read previewNike's incoming CEO is an old face in the company, having worked his way up the ranks from intern to C-Suite exec. He's set to take over Nike's outgoing CEO, John Donahoe, who has led the company since 2020. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. According to Hill's biography, which Nike shared with BI, he started in the company as an apparel sales representative intern in 1988. AdvertisementNike representatives did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside business hours.
Persons: , Elliott Hill, He's, John Donahoe, Hill's, Hill, I'm, I've, Tom Peddie, Peddie, Locker, David Daniels, Daniels, Peter Cappelli, Cappelli, Elliot Hill, he's, Justin Sullivan, Jim Duffy, BI's Lloyd Lee, Duffy, they've, Ursula Burns, Burns Organizations: Service, Business, Nike, BI, NIKE, — Consumer, National University of Singapore, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Stifel, Xerox, Columbia University, Business Insider
The cybersecurity software contender has more than 2,400 customers, including Maersk, Xerox and Mattel — in all, some 17% of the Fortune 500, according to the company. Cybersecurity company Abnormal Security said Tuesday it has raised $250 million in a Series D funding round that values the firm at $5.1 billion. With Microsoft surpassing $20 billion in cybersecurity revenue last year, competition has picked up among cybersecurity sector incumbents Cloudflare, Zscaler and Palo Alto Networks. Additionally, CrowdStrike veteran James Yeager was recently hired to head up public sector sales, an area that the email security vendor is targeting for growth. In March, Abnormal hired CFO Smita Sanadhya, a former executive at Microsoft Hong Kong and HP as well as startup Okta, which she helped to scale to a $2 billion public company.
Persons: Evan Reiser, Cloudflare, Reiser, Michael DeCesare, James Yeager, Smita Sanadhya, Jeff True Organizations: Twitter, Maersk, Xerox, Mattel, Fortune, Wellington Management, Greylock Partners, Menlo Ventures, Insight Partners, Security, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Software, Cloudflare, CNBC, Forescout Technology, Microsoft Hong Kong, HP, Abnormal Locations: Zscaler, Palo, Exabeam
Montaque cofounded Group Black in 2021 with the goal of directing $500 million in advertising money to Black-owned media in its first 18 months. With the pledge, Group Black laid out a plan to steer money to Black media owners and acquire media companies. Bough, Group Black's chief strategy officer, was a former Mondelēz and PepsiCo marketer who presented the CNBC reality show "Cleveland Hustles." Various outlets reported that Group Black mounted bids for media companies including the Sports Illustrated publisher Arena Group, the Paramount-owned BET, Vice Media, and Vox Media. Seven former employees described Montaque as an energetic leader but said he was ultimately ineffective in executing Group Black's mission.
Persons: Travis Montaque, Weeks, Montaque, Bonin, Black, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Richelieu Dennis, Dennis, Ursula M, Burns, Randy Brooke, Ursula Burns, Seth Kaufman, Moët Hennessy, Gamble, Ziff Davis, offsites, Gamble —, Spokespeople, Derrick Johnson, Lionel Hahn, Todd Brown, It's, Christopher Kenna, I'm, Samantha Skey, Black's Travis Montaque, Arturo Holmes, Vivek Shah, Bough, Sheila Marmon, Media's Refinery29, Erika Goldring, Richelieu Dennis who's, Kirk McDonald, GroupM Organizations: Black, Cannes Lions, Business, Black's, SHE, Cola, Walmart, PepsiCo, CNBC, Xerox, Getty, Moët Hennessy North America, Procter, Gamble, NAACP, Urban Edge Network, Corporate America, Association of National Advertisers's Alliance, Inclusive, Multicultural, Diversity Media, Penske Media Corp, Zeta, Fox, Everyday Health, Sports, Arena Group, Paramount, BET, Vice Media, Vox Media, Galore Media, Mirror, Marmon, Media Locations: GroupM, America, Soho, Manhattan, Santa Monica, Cannes
All in all, Group Black said it planned to deploy $500 million in Black-owned media by the end of 2022. Some brands have provided updates on their commitments since, but gains by Black-owned media companies have been uneven overall. Group Black's idea was to help steer ad dollars to its member companies and use some of the ad dollars to buy stakes in media companies. It listed among its founding member companies Essence, which is part of Dennis' company, Sundial Media; podcast company Pod Digital Media; and lifestyle media company She Media. Various outlets also reported that Group Black sought to acquire stakes in media companies including Sports Illustrated publisher Arena Group and Vox Media.
Persons: , Travis Montaque, Montaque, Montaque hasn't, Kerel Cooper, Dan Bisgeier, Delida Costin, Mike Owen, Ryan Robertson, Marchelle Wright, Ashley Banks, Cooper, Holler, Richelieu Dennis, Bonin, Black, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ursula Burns, Fortune, Seth Kaufman, Moët Hennessy, Dennis Organizations: Service, Business, Black, Xerox, Moët Hennessy North America ., Media, Pod Digital Media, Sports, Arena, Vox Media Locations: Black
Wells Fargo reiterates Nvidia as overweight Wells said it's sticking with its overweight rating on the stock. "We initiate coverage of net lease REIT Essential Properties (EPRT) with a Buy rating and $33.00 12-month price target. Citi reiterates Apple as buy Citi moved the tech giant up a spot to its number 2 top pick. Wells Fargo reiterates Amazon as buy Wells raised its price target on Amazon to $239 per share from $234. "We initiate coverage of Intuitive Machines, Inc. (LUNR) with a Buy rating and a 12-month price target of $8 per share."
Persons: Raymond James, Deere, it's, Morgan Stanley downgrades Nike, Morgan Stanley, Wells, Goldman Sachs, Goldman, Oppenheimer, Riley, Piper Sandler, Piper, managements, it's bullish, Rosenblatt, ASML Organizations: Deutsche Bank, Deutsche, Nvidia, Properties Realty Trust, Apple, Citi, Xerox, JPMorgan, Realty Trust, Inc, Travelers, Susquehanna, Nextracker, BMO, SAP Locations: Americas, China
Getting your colleagues and bosses to listen to your ideas at work doesn't have to be hard — if you know what to say. You can gain influence at work by incorporating a handful of specific words into your vocabulary, according to a variety of experts and research. "Like suggests a personal preference, while recommend suggests others will enjoy it as well," Berger tells Make It. "If you're willing to say not just that France was fun, but it is fun; not just that this book had a great plot, but it has a great plot; when you're generalizing beyond the past, it suggests you're more confident or certain about what you're saying," Berger told the "Knowledge at Wharton" podcast last year. We'll teach you how to speak clearly and confidently, calm your nerves, what to say and not say, and body language techniques to make a great first impression.
Persons: Matt Abrahams, Abrahams, Wharton, Jonah Berger, Berger, , endorsers, Pryor Organizations: Stanford University, CNBC, Harvard University, Xerox, Wharton, Stanford Graduate School of Business Locations: France, Philadelphia
Her husband, Charles Rogers, said she died in a hospital from complications of two recent heart attacks. In 1968, after leaving IBM, Ms. Conway was among the earliest Americans to undergo gender reassignment surgery. But she kept it a secret, living in what she called “stealth” mode for 31 years out of fear of career reprisals and concern for her physical safety. She rebuilt her career from scratch, eventually landing at the fabled Xerox PARC laboratory, where she again made important contributions in her field. After she publicly disclosed her transition in 1999, she became a prominent transgender activist.
Persons: Lynn Conway, , Charles Rogers, Conway Organizations: IBM, Xerox PARC Locations: Jackson, Mich
This disastrous mindset has hollowed out Silicon Valley's ability to innovate and caused regular people to grow increasingly frustrated with everyday tech. The large platforms have generally ignored this feedback for one big reason: The tech industry has been taken over by career managers. Now Google Search is more profitable and worse, elevating spammy content and outright scams, a problem exacerbated by artificial intelligence. AdvertisementBut today's tech products feel built to sell a dream of the future rather than solve a customer's existing pains. As long as the tech industry is controlled by people who don't build things, it will continue to build products that help raise growth metrics rather than help consumers with tangible problems.
Persons: scammers hawking, Meta's, Hewlett Packard, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, Adam Mosseri, Systrom, Krieger, Mosseri, Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram, Kylie Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Sundar Pichai, Prabhakar Raghavan, Raghavan, Ben Gomes, Gomes, it's, Sam Altman, Helen Toner, Ilya Sutskever, Larry Summers, Fidji Simo, Meta —, , Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak Organizations: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Adobe, Meta, Builders, Apple, Xerox, HP, Department, Reuters Institute, Oxford University, Silicon Valley Locations: Silicon, Silicon Valley
US President Joe Biden speaks about his Investing in America agenda at the Wilmington Convention Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, on May 2, 2024. President Joe Biden is set to meet Tuesday afternoon with a slate of executives from a variety of industries, some of which have been the targets of his regulatory agenda. The guest list includes United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby, Citi CEO Jane Fraser, Evercore founder and senior chairman Roger Altman, Marriott International CEO Anthony Capuano, Flex CEO Revathi Advaithi, Bechtel Group CEO Brendan Bechtel, former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns and Corning CEO Wendell Weeks, according to a White House official. Biden is planning to discuss his "strategy of investing in America and rebuilding international alliances," the official said in a statement. And as part of a broader siege against what Biden calls "junk fees," the White House has issued rules prohibiting certain fees from airlines and credit card companies.
Persons: Joe Biden, Scott Kirby, Jane Fraser, Roger Altman, Anthony Capuano, Revathi Advaithi, Brendan Bechtel, Ursula Burns, Corning, Wendell Weeks, Biden Organizations: Wilmington Convention, United Airlines, Citi, Marriott International, Flex, Bechtel, Xerox, White, Federal Trade Commission, Department Locations: Wilmington, Wilmington , North Carolina, America
At his annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, the 93 year-old co-founder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway issued a stark warning about the potential dangers of the technology. “We let a genie out of the bottle when we developed nuclear weapons,” he said Saturday. JPMorgan Chase, the world’s largest bank by market capitalization, is also exploring the potential of generative AI within its own ecosystem, Dimon said. Dozens of AI industry leaders, academics and even some celebrities have signed a statement warning of an “extinction” risk from AI. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” the statement said.
Persons: New York CNN — Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, , Greg Abel, Buffett, , Abel, isn’t, Buffett Buffett, JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, Dimon, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Sonnenfeld, Doug McMillion, James Quincy, Sam Altman, Geoffrey Hinton Organizations: New, New York CNN, Berkshire, International Monetary Fund, Industries, Nvidia, Microsoft, scamming, JPMorgan, JPMorgan Chase, Software, Yale, Summit, CNN, Walmart, Xerox, Google Locations: New York, Omaha , Nebraska, Omaha, scamming
Can Xerox’s PARC, a Silicon Valley Icon, Find New Life with SRI? 1974 A key part of PARC office of the future vision is a network to tie office systems together. The PARC laboratory, set in the foothills just south of Stanford, is now largely empty, hosting less than 100 researchers, far from a peak of almost 400. Mr. Parekh said that the stage was now set for a second leap forward in the way humans interacted with computers. “This is our annuity for the future for investing in research,” Mr. Parekh said.
Persons: Steve Jobs, Jobs, Apple’s Lisa, IBM’s Thomas J, , , Eric Schmidt, Google’s, Bernardo Huberman, Mr, Huberman, Douglas Engelbart, Siri, Bill Duvall, Charley Kline, CALO, David Parekh, Parekh, SIRI, Curtis Carlson, Charles Simonyi, Jan Vandenbrande, Research Jan Vandenbrande, Johan De Kleer, San Organizations: Xerox’s PARC, SRI, Palo, Palo Alto Research, PARC, Mr, Xerox, SRI International, Stanford Research Institute, Xerox Dover, Xerox Corporation, T’s Bell Laboratories, Watson Research Center, Bay, “ PARC, of America, Machine, UCLA, Pentagon, Apple, Macintosh, Research Projects Agency, Microsoft, Windows, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Research Locations: Palo Alto, Stanford’sy, Stanford, Silicon, Menlo Park, Los Angeles, Calif, San Francisco, San Jose
I Asked My Mom if She Was Prepared to Die
  + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Shaina Feinberg | Julia Rothman | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
On top of everything she had to do when he died, like planning the funeral, there was also the stress of finances and paperwork. “We had a joint checking account, but it didn’t have a lot of money. Our other bank account had more money, but was only in his name. I had to get that sorted out, which took ages.”The most helpful advice my mom got when my dad died? We talked to three end-of-life experts who unpacked how to make this extensive undertaking slightly more manageable.
Persons: , Fran, Organizations: Xerox
"We wanted a marshmallow to have a little bite to it, not just be a foamy air," he says. Jon Sebastiani, Smashmallow founderSmashmallow had a killer brand — but the product was still basically being made one batch at a time, on kitchen counters. If Smashmallow couldn't produce enough marshmallows, Tanis wouldn't get its dough. The thing is, even though Smashmallow failed, Sebastiani didn't. "In that industry, a snackable marshmallow is a Smashmallow, like a copy machine is a Xerox," says Kwasniewski.
Persons: Jon Sebastiani, Sebastiani, Krave, jonesing, marshmallows, Liam Eisenberg, aerated, Cook, Jens Hoj, Hoj, Smashmallow, he'd, It's, Theranos, wasn't, Elizabeth Holmes, Tanis, Wolfgang Confectioners, Smashmallow Smashmallow, Wolfgang, Tanis wouldn't, Smashmallow couldn't, Richard Hartel, Sebastiani didn't, David Kwasniewski, Kwasniewski, Smashmallows, it's, Adam Rogers Organizations: Hershey, Michelin, BI, Kraft, Target, Walmart, Doumak, Workers, University of Wisconsin, Area, Xerox, marshmallows, Business Locations: Paris, California, Sonoma, Hershey, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Hobart, Chicago, Las Vegas, Netherlands, Tanis, Pennsylvania, America, Sonoma Capital, Smashmallow, Santa Rosa, San Francisco, Colorado, North America
The World(MSCI All Country World Index weighting)Entire U.S. stock market: 63%Japan, UK, Canada, France, Hong Kong/China combined: 17.5%Magnificent 7: 17%Source: Dimensional FundsThat seems crazy, no? For example, in the mid-1960s the concentration of the top 10 was over 40% of the S&P 500. Investors who own the S&P 500 don't have to pick those winners; they just go along for the ride. Second, U.S. stocks are global market leaders, and when a small group becomes market leaders it almost always means the U.S. stock market outperforms the world. The U.S. stock market, which was roughly 40% of the global market capitalization a short while ago, is now roughly 50% of global market capitalization.
Persons: Gregory Rowe, Berkshire Hathaway, Lilly, It's, Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, Berkshire, Broadcom, Nvidia, Eck Semiconductor, Dimensional Fund Advisors, FS Investments, IBM, American Express, General Electric, Polaroid, Xerox, U.S, Baidu, SAP, Siemens, United, Shell, AstraZeneca, HSBC Locations: New York City, Miami Beach, Japan, UK, Canada, France, Hong Kong, China, U.S, Germany, United Kingdom
download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Disco is backOthers have also started to compare today's market and the 1970s' "Nifty Fifty." AdvertisementJPMorgan's Chief Global Strategist Marko Kolanovic also said in a note on Wednesday that fiscal spending and inflation could resemble the 1970s landscape. Similar to the 1970s, there are currently 3 active geopolitical conflict zones – eastern Europe, Middle East, and South China Sea," Kolanovic said. Kolanovic included in his note the chart below, which shows the correlation between inflation and the performance of the S&P 500.
Persons: , Albert Edwards, Bank of America's Michael Hartnett, Jeffrey Gundlach, Cole Smead, Smead, Sears Roebuck, Alphabet's, Nvidia's, Microsoft's, Jeremy Siegel, David Rosenberg, Merrill Lynch, " Rosenberg, Marko Kolanovic, Kolanovic Organizations: Service, Societe Generale, Bank of America's, Treasury, Nasdaq, DoubleLine, Investments, Business, Morningstar, Microsoft, Nvidia, Xerox Locations: Europe, Middle East, South China
Berger points to nearly a 50-year-old study from Harvard University, wherein researchers sat in a university library and waited for someone to use the copy machine. They phrased their request in three different ways:"May I use the Xerox machine?" "May I use the Xerox machine because I have to make copies?" "May I use the Xerox machine because I'm in a rush?" "Persuasion wasn't driven by the reason itself," Berger wrote in a book on the topic, "Magic Words," which published last year.
Persons: Jonah Berger, Berger, Organizations: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, CNBC, Harvard University, Xerox
That company’s already turbulent reputation suffered another jolt this month when a door plug — a fake door that replaces a real one in some airline configurations — on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 blew out at about 16,000 feet. Investigations have commenced into the 737 Max 9, a fairly new jet freighted with Boeing’s penchant for producing flawed aircraft. With flights already full, the system can ill afford the grounding of 171 737 Max 9s. Aerospace was the West Coast’s original geek technology: Hughes Aircraft, Douglas Aircraft, Northrup, North American, Lockheed and others in California, and in Seattle, Boeing. Hughes, Douglas and North American would disappear in acquisitions and mergers.
Persons: Max, Hughes Organizations: Xerox, . Steel, Boeing, Alaska Airlines Boeing, Max, Investigations, Aerospace, Hughes Aircraft, Douglas Aircraft, Lockheed, North Locations: North American, California, Seattle, Vietnam, Douglas
Northland downgrades Advanced Micro Devices to market perform from outperform Northland downgraded the stock mainly on valuation. " Bernstein reiterates Apple as market perform Bernstein said it expects "not great" Apple earnings on February 1. William Blair downgrades Vita Coco to market perform from outperform William Blair said it's concerned about higher costs for the beverage company. Raymond James downgrades Comerica to market perform from outperform Raymond James said the earnings outlook looks too challenging for Comerica. "We are downgrading CMA shares from Outperform to Market Perform and reducing our 2024 EPS estimate to reflect its initial 2024 outlook."
Persons: Bernstein, Hunt, KeyBanc, Key, it's, Morgan Stanley, Oppenheimer, Lowe's, Goldman Sachs downgrades Archer, Daniels, Goldman, Vikram Luthar, William Blair downgrades Vita Coco, William Blair, Wolfe, NiSource, Tesla, Goldman Sachs, Stone, Evercore, Raymond James downgrades, Raymond James Organizations: Bernstein, Pacific, Norfolk, Union Pacific, NSC, UBS, Devices, Northland, AMD, Western, Home Depot, Apple, HSBC downgrades Lululemon, Daniels Midland, ADM, TAM, Airlines, Barclays, Netflix, JPMorgan, Xerox JPMorgan, Raymond James downgrades Comerica, Comerica, CMA Locations: Norfolk Southern, Northland, Brazil
Amazon is laying off about 30 employees in its Buy with Prime unit, CNBC has learned, as it continues to look for ways to trim costs. The cuts affect fewer than 5% of staff in the Buy with Prime division, Amazon said. Buy with Prime is a service that lets online stores offer the same two-day shipping benefits available to Prime subscribers. Amazon said it's assisting Buy with Prime employees who were laid off in finding new roles elsewhere within the company. WATCH: Amazon lays off hundreds of roles across Twitch, Prime Video and MGM Studios
Persons: we've, Santos, Peter Larsen, Amazon Organizations: CNBC, Amazon, Prime, MGM, Google, Xerox, Unity, Employees, MGM Studios
Trend Micro lays off 2% of its global workforce
  + stars: | 2024-01-09 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | In | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Trend Micro has laid off 2% of its overall workforce. "Trend Micro informed 2% of its worldwide team that their roles were eliminated," a spokesperson said in a statement. "This decision is in alignment with Trend Micro's business transformation and focus on customer expansion through our platform." In response to an analyst question in November about the company's declining headcount and if it has stopped shrinking its workforce, Trend Micro said, "we don't have a plan to actively increase the head count." Trend Micro joins a growing list of technology firms that have recently slashed jobs amid a challenging economy.
Organizations: Trend, Unity Software, Xerox
Xerox to cut 15% of its workforce
  + stars: | 2024-01-03 | by ( Ashley Capoot | In | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Xerox on Wednesday announced it will cut 15% of its workforce as part of a plan to implement a new organizational structure and operating model. Xerox, which offers digital printing and document management technologies, had about 20,500 employees as of Dec. 31, 2022, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company's restructuring plan involves simplifying its products within its core print business, increasing efficiency across its global business services and boosting focus on IT and other digital services, according to a release. Xerox said it also redesigned its executive team to help carry out the new model. Xerox will carry out the cuts this quarter, according to the release.
Persons: Steven Bandrowczak Organizations: Xerox, Wednesday, U.S . Securities, Exchange Commission, CNBC PRO
New York CNN —Billionaire investor Charlie Munger, the long-time friend and business partner of Warren Buffett, has died. Berkshire Hathaway, the investment firm where Munger served as vice chairman, said in a press release that Munger passed “peacefully” on Tuesday morning in a California hospital. Charles Thomas Munger, known by his nickname, “Charlie,” was born on January 1, 1924, in Omaha, Nebraska. Buffett told CNBC in 2021 that after their first meeting, he knew “I’m not going to find another guy like this …. “If people weren’t so often wrong, we wouldn’t be so rich,” Munger said during a 2015 Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting.
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Traders should "rethink" one tech stock associated with an old corner of the industry — making printers and scanners, according to one investor. They're expanding in all aspects of net based cloud services for all business enhancements," Blancato said. He added that it's now a tech company trading at valuations "significantly better" than any other tech company. "Rethink the name Xerox, it's going to surprise you what they can do in the next couple of years," he said. In the years before, however, its annual dividend per share was as low as $0.17 in 2012.
Persons: Philip Blancato, CNBC's, Blancato, Steve Bandrowczak, FactSet, Xerox's Organizations: Xerox, Asset Management, Nasdaq
Oct 30 (Reuters) - 3D metal-printing startup Seurat Technologies on Monday hinted at potentially going public in the medium-term and said it had raised $99 million in a funding round co-led by chip designer Nvidia's (NVDA.O) venture capital arm. With the latest series C funding round, the company's valuation will approach $350 million, said a source who asked not to be named. The fundraise, co-led by Nvidia's NVentures and Capricorn's Technology Impact Fund, brought in new investors Honda Motor (7267.T) and Cubit Capital. Existing backers including Porsche and venture capital units of Xerox Holdings (XRX.O) and General Motors Co (GM.N) also participated. "Seurat's local factory deployment model provides the industry with a solution to near-shore manufacturing and to increase the resiliency of supply chains," said existing investor Porsche Automobil Holding's (PSHG_p.DE) board member Lutz Meschke.
Persons: Seurat, James DeMuth, Nvidia's NVentures, Porsche Automobil, Lutz Meschke, Akash Sriram, Devika Organizations: Technologies, Reuters, Technology, Honda Motor, Cubit, Porsche, Xerox Holdings, General Motors Co, Siemens Energy's, Thomson Locations: China, Massachusetts, Bengaluru
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