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c-imagination-RTS186FH-Hannah Mckay

Technology

A British company lasted only 81 days after Apple said it was planning to drop it

An investor stands in front of an electronic board showing stock information at a brokerage house in Fuyang, Anhui province, July 27, 2015. China stocks plunged more than 8 percent, their biggest one-day drop in more than eight years. REUTERS/Stringer

Finance

A hoax just caused ethereum to lose $7 billion in market value

c-plant-RTR3TJ5D-Blair Gable

economics

As it moves to legalized recreational marijuana, Canada is facing a potential weed shortage

The plane carrying U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry descends over Doha, Qatar on Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Qatar is Kerry's final destination on his first official overseas trip as secretary of state.

corporate

Not even the end of Ramadan and the Eid al-Fitr holiday helped fill Qatari hotels

c-sun-RTXPD3J-Aly Song

corporate

Air China will lose dominance over Beijing when the capital’s new airport opens

c-AP_16219696417431-AP Kirsty Wigglesworth

economics

The US government wants to let India buy 22 surveillance drones

c3-boeing-RTS17VO1-Pascal Rossignol

corporate

Boeing closed almost twice as many deals as rival Airbus did at the biggest deal-making event of the year

c-darj-RTX7999-Rupak de Chowdhuri

economics

Protests are jeopardizing India’s most prized Darjeeling tea leaves

c-harley2-RTX887O-Allen Fredrickson

corporate

Ducati might help rejuvenate Harley-Davidson

c-helsinki-RTS15JJ9-Ints Kalnins

economics

Young Finns are moving into homes for seniors to escape Helsinki’s expensive housing market

Swiss Francs five cent coins are heaped in a pile as members for the initiative "CHF 2,500 monthly for everyone" (grundeinkommen) open rolls of five cent coins in the old vault of the former Schweizerische Volksbank in Basel October 1, 2013. The committee dumped 8,000,000 five cent coins, weighting 15 tones, over the Federal Square in Bern on Friday, before delivering 126,000 signatures to the Chancellery to propose a change in the constitution to implement their initiative. The initiative aims to have a minimum monthly disposal household income of CHF 2,500 (US$ 2,700) given by the government to every citizen living in Switzerland. Picture taken October 1, 2013.

corporate

The EU wants to break the secrecy around firms that help create offshore accounts

A Chinese investor watches an electronic board showing stock information at a brokerage house in the financial district of Beijing February 4, 2009. China's stock market continued rising in heavy trade on Wednesday, with the main index climbing above a widely watched technical level, because of further signs that economic growth might be starting to bottom out. REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA) - RTXB7IK

Finance

Ethereum grew 4,500% this year and should surpass bitcoin in the next few weeks

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