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Ctrip, China's biggest travel Site, goes abroad for its latest expansion

Ctrip is buying Skyscanner for $1.74 billion and hopes the deal can help expand China’s largest travel site globally.

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Snapchat parent working on IPO valuing firm at $25 billion or more: WSJ

Photo-sharing app Snapchat's parent is working on an initial public offering that could value the company at $25 billion or more, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing several people familiar with the matter.

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Why oil producers will be over a barrel for a long time yet

Oil prices may have rallied on a new International Energy Agency forecast for demand to erode the excess supply next year and hopes exporters will soon agree to tighten the spigots, but producers shouldn’t get too excited.

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Gives Birth to Twins

Executive tweets that identical twin girls were born Thursday morning

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In Texting, Punctuation Conveys Different Emotions. Period

The use of a period in text messages conveys insincerity, annoyance and abruptness, according to a new study from the State University of New York Binghamton.

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Google’s Education Service Under Fire For Privacy Violations

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit privacy organization, said in a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission that the service known as Google Apps for Education violates a pledge that Google signed in January.

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Amazon’s Delivery Drones: Where Will They Land?

Amazon is suggesting it has created a workable solution, but one that also puts the onus on customers.

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Online Shopping Tops Stores on Black Friday Weekend

A National Retail Federation survey on Sunday found that more people shopped online than in stores during the Thanksgiving and Black Friday weekend, a sign of how quickly and deeply American shopping habits have changed.