A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
Approval from the European Commission was the last big regulatory hurdle Dell needed to overcome to close the deal. Dell hopes the purchase of EMC will allow it better compete with IBM, Cisco Systems, and Hewlett-Packard in cloud computing and cyber security. The EC said the combined company would still face strong market competition. EU competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, said: "I am pleased that we have been able to approve Dell's multibillion dollar takeover of EMC within a short space of time while making sure that there would be no adverse effects on customers." The deal won approval from US regulators earlier this month. The two companies are still waiting regulatory approval in smaller markets.
EMC shareholders also need to approve the deal, but a spokesperson for Dell said that European approval was "a strong sign the deal was running on time and under the original terms".
The transaction is expected to close before Dell's third quarter ends in July. The purchase of EMC is part of a series of changes founder Michael Dell and his partners, Silver Lake, have made since taking the company private in 2013. Mr Dell founded the company in 1984. He has a combined Dell/EMC would create a "powerhouse" in the $2 trillion IT sector.
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