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General Electric has closed its $10 billion deal with Alstom, a European power company, leading GE to control one-third of the globe’s power supply.

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Bitcoin, the world’s most popular digital currency, has been on a roll – but no one is really sure why.

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There were no Maseratis in the parking lot, at least not yet, but there was plenty of excitement as H-E-B partners gathered at the McCreless store on the south side to celebrate the firm’s surprise grant of non voting stock to 55,000 partners, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.

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Or, put another way, the 600 million ton revision to China’s 2012 coal consumption is, by itself, more than 70 percent of what the US burns as country in an entire year.

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Nov 4 The US government has shut down four debt collection companies that used abusive tactics, in a few cases to pursue people who owed nothing, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday. The group cited 115 actions this year. You can learn more about what rights you have under

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“The short replies sent back by the “Smart Reply” feature in response to users” emails can be used either for replying quickly to a message or for initiating a longer message.

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Travel booking site Expedia has agreed to buy publicly traded vacation rental company HomeAway for $3.9 billion, the companies announced today. That was worth 37.86 at Wednesday’s close, but closer to 39 after hours. “Bringing HomeAway into the Expedia Inc. family … is a logical next step”. Following the completion

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Alcoa will begin the curtailments before the end of the year and will complete them by the end of the first quarter of 2016. Alcoa’s decision to eliminate 503,000 metric tons of smelting capacity accounts for about 31 percent of the United States’s total for primary aluminum, but less than

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Haystack TV has been available on iOS for a few time now, and even comes with an Apple Watch companion app. The app’s user data has consistently shown, though, that viewers stay engaged with the news longer when they watch it on their television set. We still don’t know if

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