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Disney+ already has 26.5M subscribers

The Walt Disney Company just announced that its streaming service Disney+ has 26.5 million paying subscribers — ahead of the already-impressive 25 million predicted by Wall Street analysts.Disney+ lau

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Koch Industries acquires Infor in deal pegged at nearly $13B

Infor announced today that Koch Industries has bought the company in a deal sources peg at close to $13 billion.Infor, which makes large-scale cloud ERP software, has been around since 2002 and count

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Apple’s TV App and Apple TV+ arrive on 2019 LG TVs

The Apple TV app, including access to the new streaming service Apple TV+, has now arrived on LG smart TVs. This week, LG announced the launch of the Apple TV app on compatible 2019 LG smart TVs in th

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APD | Toyota-Panasonic venture to produce EV batteries

By APD writer AliceA joint venture to be set up by Toyota Motor Corp and Panasonic Corp of Japan will begin developing electric vehicle (EV) batteries from April, as a

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APD | Toyota-Panasonic venture to produce EV batteries

By APD writer AliceA joint venture to be set up by Toyota Motor Corp and Panasonic Corp of Japan will begin developing electric vehicle (EV) batteries from April, as a

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Iran to work together with China against novel coronavirus: FM

Iran is willing to work together with China to combat the epidemic caused by the novel coronavirus, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Monday. He made the rema

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Greta Thunberg Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Swedish Left Party MPs

The Swedish teenage climate activist was also nominated in 2019 and was polling as one of the favourites in the Nobel race, but narrowly missed the prize.Greta Thunberg

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Dengue outbreak hits Latin America

Dengue fever is spreading across Latin America in what experts are calling one of the worst epidemics in centuries.Nearly three million cases ofthe mosquito-borne diseasewere rep

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Google Assistant now works with Tile to find your lost stuff

Google Assistant is today rolling out support for Tile’s Bluetooth tracker, designed to help you keep up with your often misplaced items — like your keys, purse, wallet, remote, and more.

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Byte tops a million downloads amid spam issues and content concerns

New short-form video app Byte, heralded as Vine’s successor, is off to a strong start despite its issues. The app, built by Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann, brings back the six-second videos made po

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WHO chief says no need to halt travel to beat coronavirus

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a news conference after a meeting of the WHO's emergency committee on the novel coronavirus (2019-

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Worldline to buy Ingenico for $8.6B in major payments consolidation play

Some consolidation is afoot among the payments behemoths of Europe, as they continue to go head-to-head with smaller, newer fintech companies eating into their market dominance by adapting faster to c

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Influenza killed at least 10,000 this season in the U.S.

A man battles the flu at Upson Regional Medical Center in Thomaston, Georgia, U.S. /AP Photo In the 2019-2020 season so far, there have been at least19 million cases of flu, 180,000 hospitaliz

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Malaysia probes allegations that Airbus bribed AirAsia bosses

An Airbus A350-1000 performs during the 53rd International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport near Paris, France, June 18, 2019. /Reuters Photo Malaysia's anti-graft agency, the Malaysian An

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The approaching debt wave

Editor's Note: Kaushik Basuisformer chief economist of the World Bank and former chief economic adviser to the government of India, professor of Economics at Cornell University and nonresident sen

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Officials, experts recognize China's efforts to contain novel coronavirus

Officials and experts worldwide have commended China's efforts to control the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak and its transparent information sharing with the i

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Record $4 billion Airbus fine draws line under 'pervasive' bribery

Airbus bribed public officials and hid the payments as part of a pattern of worldwide corruption, prosecutors said on Friday as the European planemaker agreed a record four billion U.S. dollars se