Archive for the December 31, 2018
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Moscow's metro system is famed for its Stalin-era stations with glittering chandeliers and mosaics, but architects are taking a radical new approach as the network undergoes a massive expansion. While the original stations were conceived
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The repressive central Asian nation of Turkmenistan, where the likes of Facebook and Whatsapp are banned, on Monday launched its first messaging app. The privately developed BizBarde app will "allow the exchange of messagers, files,
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From stopping child trafficking to mapping slums or delivering medicines, governments and companies found new ways to use technology in 2018 to help people globally. Here are 10 new uses of technology in the past
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Troubled UK high-street retailers shed almost 150,000 jobs this year, hit by high business property taxation, flagging growth and rising online sales, a study showed Monday. Some 148,132 jobs were axed as 20,000 shops and
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Wells Fargo & Co will pay $575 million to settle claims made by US states that the bank created phony accounts and committed other customer abuses, according to a statement by the Iowa attorney general's
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Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) wants to acquire Asian commercial banks, utilising some of the up to $12 billion in surplus capital that Japan's third-largest lender expects to build up over the next five years,
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Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) wants to acquire Asian commercial banks, utilising some of the up to $12 billion in surplus capital that Japan's third-largest lender expects to build up over the next five years,
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Spain's government said on Friday it had extended the sale period of its stake in Bankia until the end of 2021 from the original date of before the end of 2019. The Spanish state is
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High operating costs and tight customer budgets have left US coffee giant Starbucks needing a caffeine hit after it abandoned ambitious expansion plans in South Africa - seen as a foothold for the continent. Starbucks
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Hong Kong's NWS Holdings Ltd has agreed to acquire FTLife Insurance Co Ltd for HK$21.5 billion ($2.75 billion) from Beijing-based financial holding firm JD Group, aiming to diversify its business from infrastructure and services. NWS,
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