ECB [EuroCentralBank] takes on PayPal with instant payment system

The European Central Bank launched on Friday a new system aimed at letting banks... | Continue reading


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U.S. fires tear gas into Mexico to repel migrants

U.S. authorities shut the country's busiest border crossing and fired tear ... | Continue reading


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Facebook sued by Russian firm linked to woman charged by U.S

A Russian company whose accountant was charged by federal prosecutors for attemp... | Continue reading


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China scours social media, erases thousands of accounts

China's top cyber authority has scrubbed 9,800 social media accounts of ind... | Continue reading


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Bitcoin volatility sinks to lowest in nearly two years

Bitcoin has experienced one of its worst annual price performances of its short ... | Continue reading


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Wary of crypto, UK government blocks Royal Mint's digital gold

Britain's Royal Mint has frozen plans to launch a digital gold token after ... | Continue reading


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Aptoide wins court battle against Google in landmark case

Portuguese app store Aptoide said on Monday that a local court had ruled against... | Continue reading


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Super Micro to review hardware for malicious chips

Super Micro Computer Inc said on Monday it will review its hardware for any proo... | Continue reading


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Tesla launches new $45,000 Model 3

Tesla Inc on Thursday introduced a new $45,000 version of its Model 3 sedan on i... | Continue reading


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Hacked, scammed and on your own: navigating cryptocurrency 'wild west'

When Peggy and Marco Lachmann-Anke learned in January that hackers cracked a 40-... | Continue reading


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Tesla secures Shanghai site for $2B China Gigafactory

Tesla Inc has signed an agreement with the Shanghai government for an 860,000 sq... | Continue reading


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Facebook shareholders back proposal to remove Zuckerberg as chairman

Several public funds that hold shares in Facebook Inc on Wednesday backed a prop... | Continue reading


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In a surprise, first alien moon discovered is big and gaseous

Astronomers have pinpointed what appears to be the first moon detected outside o... | Continue reading


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Estonia sues Gemalto for 152 mln euros over ID card flaws

Estonian police are seeking to recover 152 million euros ($178 mln) in a lawsuit... | Continue reading


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Cryptocurrency Giant Bitmain Chooses Hong Kong for IPO

s) - Bitmain Technologies, the world's largest designer of products used fo... | Continue reading


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World’s largest offshore wind farm opens off northwest England

The world's largest offshore wind farm will open on Thursday off the northwest coast of England when Danish energy group Orsted unveils the Walney Extension project. | Continue reading


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Massive fire tears through Rio's 200-year old National Museum

A massive fire raced through Brazil's 200-year-old National Museum in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, probably destroying its collection of more than 20 million items, ranging from archeological finds to historical memorabilia. | Continue reading


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EU set to end switch between summer and winter time – Juncker

The European Union's chief executive said on Friday the bloc was set to end the practice of switching between summer and winter time after a survey found most EU citizens against the practice. | Continue reading


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World at risk of heading toward irreversible 'hothouse' state

The world is at risk of entering "hothouse" conditions where global average temperatures will be 4-5 degrees Celsius higher even if emissions reduction targets under a global climate deal are met, scientists said in a study published on Monday. | Continue reading


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Three hackers arrested in connection with millions of dollars in losses

Three people associated with the hacking group FIN7, also known as Carbanak, have been arrested in Europe and are in custody, the United States said in a court filing. | Continue reading


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IMF projects Venezuela inflation will hit 1M percent in 2018

Venezuela's inflation rate is likely to top 1,000,000 percent in 2018, an International Monetary Fund official wrote on Monday, putting it on track to become one of the worst hyperinflationary crises in modern history. | Continue reading


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UK to warn public every week over 'no-deal Brexit'

Britons will from next week start receiving weekly information bulletins from the government about how to make sure they're ready for a disorderly Brexit, The Times reported on Friday. | Continue reading


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Tether releases law firm report attesting to U.S. dollar reserves

A Washington-based law firm co-founded by former FBI director Louis J. Freeh has attested that as of June 1 cryptocurrency firm Tether had enough U.S. dollar reserves to back its virtual coins in circulation, according to a report released by Tether on Wednesday. | Continue reading


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Amazon's Alexa now at Marriott hotels

Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday that it has partnered with Marriott International Inc to help increase guest access to amenities with Alexa, through its voice-controlled device Echo, in an attempt to expand its presence in the hospitality industry. | Continue reading


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Apple, Qualcomm battle over possible ban on some U.S. iPhone imports

The staff of the U.S. International Trade Commission on Friday recommended that a trade judge find that Apple Inc infringed at least one of Qualcomm Inc's patents, a move that could lead to blocking the import of some iPhones. | Continue reading


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Uber's 'business is finished' in Turkey, Erdogan says

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan has said ride hailing app Uber is finished in Turkey, following pressure from Istanbul taxi drivers who said it was providing an illegal service and called for it to be banned. | Continue reading


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South Korea court says only blind can be masseurs

South Korea's Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that only the visually impaired can be licensed masseurs in the country, upholding a law set up a century ago despite arguments it infringed on free employment rights. | Continue reading


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Austrian data privacy activist takes aim at 'forced consent'

As Europe's new privacy law took effect on Friday, one activist wasted no time in asserting the additional rights it gives people over the data that companies want to collect about them. | Continue reading


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Three Ebola patients slip out of Congo hospital, medics race to control outbreak

Three patients infected with the deadly Ebola virus slipped out of an isolation ward at a hospital in the Congolese city of Mbandaka, an aid group said, as medics raced to stop the disease spreading in the busy river port. | Continue reading


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Commentary: Trump’s Iran nuclear decision ends era in U.S.-Europe ties

Does Europe still have a partner, a big brother across the water? One which can be a scold, a nag, an annoyance, a puzzle – but which has always been there for it? A partner that is also a protector, with a military and security network of unrivalled power and reach? Is the Unite … | Continue reading


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Walmart to buy controlling stake of Flipkart for $16B

Walmart Inc agreed to pay $16 billion for a roughly 77 percent stake in Indian online marketplace Flipkart, the U.S. retailer's largest deal as it opens up another front to battle rival Amazon.com Inc in one of the world's fledgling e-commerce markets. | Continue reading


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Rushed testing, poor communication played role in British TSB outage

A computer systems migration at Britain's TSB bank that left up to 1.9 million customers unable to access their accounts was hindered by rushed and inadequate testing and poor internal communication, two contractors who worked on the project said. | Continue reading


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Graphic - The long goodbye to easy money: Five questions for the ECB

The ECB meets on Thursday against a backdrop of concern about a global trade spat and a softening in euro zone economic data that could potentially hamper the central bank's plans to unwind its extraordinary monetary stimulus. | Continue reading


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Euro zone growth slows again in March on hot euro, cold weather - PMIs

Euro zone businesses rounded off the first quarter of 2018 with their slowest growth in over a year - and much weaker than expected - as new business took another hit from a stubbornly strong euro, a survey showed. | Continue reading


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