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Carlsberg to expand France brewery, its largest in Europe

Carlsberg said on Wednesday it will increase capacity its Kronenbourg brewery in Obernai, France, its largest in Europe, with a 100 million euro ($117 million) investment.

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Coca-Cola takes plunge into coffee with $5.1 billion Costa deal

Coca-Cola Co has agreed to buy coffee chain Costa for $5.1 billion to extend its push into healthier drinks and take on the likes of Starbucks and Nestle in the booming global coffee market.

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Microsoft to invest $1 billion in OpenAI

Microsoft Corp said on Monday it was investing $1 billion in San Francisco-based OpenAI and that the two had formed a multi-year partnership to develop artificial intelligence supercomputing...

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Korean Investor Hana in Talks to Buy WeWork London Landmark

Hana Financial Group Inc. is in talks to buy a landmark office property opposite the Bank of England that’s being transformed into a major WeWork Cos. co-working space, according to people w...

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Qatar plans to invest billions of dollars in Germany

Qatar plans to invest billions of dollars more in Germany and will broaden its focus to the country’s medium-sized companies, business newspaper Handelsblatt said in a report due to be publi...

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Amazon joins $1 trillion club, on pace to overtake Apple

Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday joined Apple Inc to become the second $1 trillion publicly listed U.S. company after its stock price more than doubled in a year as it grew rapidly in retail and cl...

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Fox invests $100 million in broadcasting platform Caffeine

Twenty First Century Fox said on Wednesday it made a $100 million investment in social broadcasting platform Caffeine.

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Facebook to invest $1 billion in first Asian data center in Singapore

Faceboo said on Thursday it will invest more than $1 billion to build its first data center in Asia in Singapore, slated to open in 2022.

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All real estate costs more than $ 280 trillion - study

The aggregate value of all real estate in the world as of the end of 2017 reached a record $ 280.6 trillion, according to a study by Savills World Research.

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Japan's Renesas to buy U.S. chipmaker IDT for $6.7 billion

Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy U.S. peer Integrated Device Technology Inc for about $6.7 billion, aiming to boost its expertise in self-driv...

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IKEA to open first store in Ukraine next year

Swedish retailer IKEA will open its first store in Ukraine next year because of the country’s improved business climate, a senior executive said on a visit to Kiev on Wednesday.

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Exclusive: Carlyle Group in talks to buy Sedgwick Claims - sources

Private equity firm Carlyle Group LP is in talks to acquire Sedgwick Claims Management Services Inc, the largest U.S. insurance claims service provider, for more than $6 billion, including d...

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Salesforce bets on big data with $15.3 billion Tableau buy

Salesforce.com Inc agreed on Monday to buy big data firm Tableau Software Inc for $15.3 billion, adding muscle in its fight with Microsoft Corp for a bigger share of the market that helps bu...

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Rosneft completed the acquisition of shares in joint ventures c ExxonMobil

Rosneft in the second quarter of 2018 completed the acquisition of shares in joint ventures with ExxonMobil within the ExxonMobil exit of a number of joint projects. This is reported in the...

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The supplier of Apogee printing equipment sold to US HP for $ 0.5 billion

The manufacturer of computers and printers HP Inc. signed a final agreement on the acquisition of the British print service provider Apogee

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China's HNA to sell over $2 billion Avolon stake to Orix: sources

China’s HNA Group Co Ltd is in advanced talks to sell a 30 percent stake in aircraft lessor Avolon Holdings Ltd to Japan’s Orix Corp, two sources said, as the company attempts to restructure...

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Exclusive: Donerail Group in talks to buy Chicago Tribune owner Tronc

Donerail Group, an investment firm led by former activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP executive Will Wyatt, is in talks to acquire Tronc Inc, the publisher of Chicago Tribune, people famil...

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Blackstone Buys $250 Million Stake in Outsourcing Startup TaskUs

Blackstone Group LP is buying a large stake in TaskUs, a startup that handles customer service and content moderation for many Silicon Valley companies, in a deal that values the company at...

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Walmart, JD Invests $500 Million in Chinese Logistics Service

Dada-JD Daojia has raised $500 million from existing backers JD.com Inc. and Walmart Inc. to quicken the growth of its delivery network across China.

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Anheuser-Busch to buy out Craft Brew Alliance in $321 million deal

Brewer Anheuser-Busch Inbev NV will buy the rest of Craft Brew Alliance that it does not own in a deal valuing the Portland-based brewing company at about $321 million, the two companies sai...

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