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Bacardi to buy high-end tequila maker Patron in $5.1 billion deal

Bacardi Ltd said on Monday it would buy high-end tequila maker Patron Spirits International AG in a $5.1 billion deal, hoping to become the second largest spirits company in the United State...

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Facebook buys Boston software company that authenticates IDs

Facebook Inc is buying a software firm that specializes in authenticating government-issued identification cards, the two companies said on Tuesday, a step that may help the social media com...

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Exclusive: Beijing plans to boost scrutiny of Chinese offshore private equity funds - sources

China plans to tighten oversight of private equity funds set up outside the country by domestic companies, including the disclosure of investors’ identities, to mitigate financial risk and k...

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Startup Vuzix has developed AR-glasses with voice assistant from Amazon

New York startup Vuzix created "smart" glasses augmented reality with support for voice assistant Alexa from Amazon. They will be presented at CES 2018, Bloomberg reports .

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Gibraltar is the first country in the world where ICO has been legislatively regulated

Since January 1, 2018 in Gibraltar, the regulatory framework for DLT (Distributed Registry Technologies) has come into force, in other words ICO in this country is now officially regulated....

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China began to issue long-term visas to highly qualified specialists and entrepreneurs

Since January 1, 2018, Chinese authorities have issued long-term visas to attract highly qualified foreigners - entrepreneurs, scientists, specialists in the field of new technologies. This...

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Capitalization of crypto currency exceeded $ 800 billion

The market value of all the world's crypto currencies has surpassed the $ 800 billion mark. This is evidenced by the data of Coinmarketcap.

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Lions Gate offered to sell Starz to CBS for $5.5 billion

Lions Gates Entertainment offered to sell cable channel Starz to CBS Corp for $5.5 billion after rebuffing a lower offer, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

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Wynn Resorts in talks to sell $2.6-billion Massachusetts casino to MGM

Wynn Resorts Ltd is in talks to sell its nearly finished $2.6 billion casino outside of Boston to rival MGM Resorts International, the two companies said on Friday.

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Goldman Sachs in talks to buy B&B Hotels from PAI Partners

Goldman Sachs is in talks to buy B&B Hotels from private equity firm PAI Partners, the companies said on Monday, in a deal which an earlier report from the Financial Times said could be wort...

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Asia stocks saunter toward historic high, U.S. earnings hurdle

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian shares crept toward all-time peaks on Monday after Wall Street boasted its best start to a year in over a decade, with brisk economic growth and benign inflation pro...

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How Buffett Won His $1 Million Bet
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Chinese Byton introduced competitor Tesla. The electric car can be controlled with the help of gestures and voice

The Chinese company Byton, founded by immigrants from BMW and Infiniti, presented a prototype of an electric car at CES 2018 in Las Vegas. The car will go on sale before the end of 2019, wri...

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Berkshire may get $37 billion book value boost from U.S. tax cuts: Barclays

Berkshire Hathaway Inc, the conglomerate run by Warren Buffett, may see its book value grow by $37 billion because of U.S. tax law changes enacted by President Donald Trump, Barclays Capital...

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Lilly to buy Loxo Oncology in $8 billion cancer push

Eli Lilly and Co. said on Monday it would buy Loxo Oncology Inc. for about $8 billion in cash, buying into a portfolio of targeted medicines to treat cancers caused by rare gene mutations.

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A trillion dollars in the crypto currency. Why Pavel Durov displays Telegram on ICO

Unlike Russian citizens enjoying the long New Year holidays, crypto traders, investors and crypto-instruments all over the world have kept their nose to the wind for the past ten days. What...

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Bezos the Unstoppable: The state of the founder of Amazon approached $ 105 billion

Bezos' main rival in the Forbes rating - Bill Gates - spends huge sums on charity, while Bezos prefers to invest in his own space company

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SoftBank's Vision Fund nearing $1.5 billion investment in SE Asia's Grab: source

SoftBank Group Corp is nearing a deal to invest $1.5 billion in Grab, three times a previously expected $500 million, as Southeast Asia’s biggest ride-hailing firm looks to expand, a person...

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Altria to buy $12.8 billion minority stake in e-cigarette company Juul

Marlboro cigarette maker Altria Group Inc will buy a 35 percent stake in Juul Labs Inc for $12.8 billion, a marriage between an old-line tobacco giant and a fast-growing electronic-cigarette...

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