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EU needs united approach on foreign investment to gain China

Europe needs a united approach in protecting its strategic assets from foreign takeovers if it wants to be respected by China, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday.

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Petrobras to pay $2.95 billion to settle U.S. class action over corruption

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PETR4.SA), said on Wednesday that it has agreed to pay $2.95 billion to settle a U.S. class action brought...

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Oil closes above $60 a barrel for the first time in 2.5 years

Oil prices closed at their highest level in two and a half years on the final trading day of 2017.

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Mattress Startup Purple Agrees to $1.1B Merger With Publicly Traded Investment Shell Company

Brothers Tony (left) and Terry Pearce founded Purple, and will have a stake worth an estimated $850 million in it after the merger.

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US blocks sale of Moneygram to China

The US has blocked the $1.2bn (£880m) sale of money transfer firm Moneygram to China's Ant Financial, the digital payments arm of Alibaba.

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Dragon Capital together with J. Soros and other investors will attract $ 300 million to Ukraine

A group of investors, including Dragon Capital, Goldman Sachs, George Soros and OPIC, intends to ensure the flow of funding to Ukraine in 2018

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Intel processors found a critical vulnerability: who can suffer and what to do

On January 3, 2018, experts told about the vulnerability in Intel processors released in the last 20 years. An error in the design of the chips may allow attackers to gain access to the prot...

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Volkswagen and Hyundai get serious about self-driving car tech

Two of the world's largest automakers have struck deals with a high-profile Silicon Valley startup to develop autonomous vehicles.

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Oil giant, Chinese Apple and rival Uber. The most anticipated IPO in 2018

Which companies can enter the exchange this year and what are they interesting for investors

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BB&T to buy SunTrust in biggest U.S. bank deal in a decade

A more permissive regulatory environment culminated on Thursday in the biggest bank merger since the 2007-2009 financial crisis, and more deals are likely, analysts and investors said.

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Uber ex-CEO Kalanick selling nearly a third of stake for $1.4 billion: source

(Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc co-founder Travis Kalanick, who was ousted as chief executive in June, is selling nearly a third of his 10 percent stake in the ride-services company for ab...

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Saudi Arabia converts Aramco into joint-stock company ahead of historic IPO

Saudi Arabia has changed the status of its national oil giant Aramco to a joint-stock company as of Jan. 1, in a key step for an initial public offering (IPO) planned for later this year.

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will devote 2018 study of decentralized technologies and cryptocurrency

Each year, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg chooses a personal goal - for example, in 2016 he was engaged in the development of home artificial intelligence "like Jarvis from" Iron Man "," i...

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Uber, Faraday Future, Twitter and others - which companies will die in 2018

Ars Technica publishes an annual list of companies and brands that are likely to die in the coming year. It includes projects that are threatened for a variety of reasons - economic, cultura...

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Ripple became the second cryptocurrency in the world in terms of capitalization. What is the reason

In early 2018, Ripple confidently outperformed Ethereum by more than $ 40 billion in capitalization and became the second world's crypto currency at market value. In just one month, the pric...

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Ukraine’s Ban on Selling Farmland Is Choking the Economy

Kiev keeps putting off land reforms, despite pressure from the IMF and investors. The 1,400 acres of snowy farmland being churned into thick black mud by grumbling trucks and house-high red...

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Spotify hit with $1.6 billion copyright lawsuit

The music streaming company Spotify was sued by Wixen Music Publishing Inc last week for allegedly using thousands of songs, including from Tom Petty, Neil Young and Doors, without a license...

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