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• Brands pull YouTube ads over images of children

  24-11-2017 23:19
  LONDON (Reuters) - Confectionery maker Mondelez, Lidl, Mars and other consumer goods producers have pulled advertising from YouTube after Britain's Times newspaper found the video-sharing site was showing clips of scantily clad children alongside the ads of major brands.
  
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• New Nissan engine bids to extend life for internal combustion

  24-11-2017 18:35
  BEIJING (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co, an early mover in the electric vehicle market, will use the Los Angeles auto show next week to send a message about gasoline-fueled engines: They're not dead yet.
  
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• Exclusive: Paddy Power Betfair, William Hill hold deal talks with CrownBet

  24-11-2017 18:17
  LONDON/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Paddy Power Betfair and William Hill have separately held talks about a deal with Australia's CrownBet as UK-focused gambling companies seek to expand overseas to offset tougher regulations in Britain.
  
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• Uber seeks to appeal UK workers' rights decision at Supreme Court

  24-11-2017 16:09
  LONDON (Reuters) - Uber submitted a request to appeal to the Supreme Court a decision by a British tribunal which said its drivers deserved workers' rights such as the minimum wage, the taxi app said on Friday.
  
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• BMW to spend $237 million on battery cell center

  24-11-2017 12:42
  FRANKFURT (Reuters) - BMW will bundle its battery cell expertise in a new competence center, the German luxury carmaker said on Friday, adding it would invest 200 million euros ($237 million) in the site over the next four years.
  
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• Uber, Yandex ride services can merge in Russia, regulator FAS rules

  24-11-2017 12:29
  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Uber [UBER.UL] and Yandex's ride-sharing businesses can merge in Russia, anti-monopoly regulator FAS ruled on Friday, but stipulated that the combined company not bar drivers from working for competitors.
  
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• Virtual reality boom brings giant robots, cyberpunk castles to China

  24-11-2017 09:59
  GUIYANG, China (Reuters) - Giant robots and futuristic cyberpunk castles rise out of lush mountain slopes on the outskirts of Guiyang, the capital of one of China's poorest provinces.
  
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• Veteran investors in vanguard of big bet on technology shares - Financial Times

  24-11-2017 06:01 via ft.com
  Financial Times
  Veteran investors in vanguard of big bet on technology shares
  Financial Times
  When technology shares tumbled from sky-high valuations in 2000, Stanley Druckenmiller, then second-in-command to George Soros at his famed Quantum Fund, suffered the fate of having held on too long. Nearly two decades on Mr Druckenmiller, who now ...
  
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• NBN ‘aggressively’ seeking to cut FTTC costs

  24-11-2017 04:26
  NBN CEO Bill Morrow says the company is “aggressively looking” at how it can further cut the costs of deploying fibre to the curb (FTTC) in order to use the technology in more areas that would otherwise receive fibre to the node (FTTN) or hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) connections.
  
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• New innovation and technology hub to tackle the future of law and the legal profession - UNSW Newsroom

  24-11-2017 02:04 via newsroom.unsw.edu.au
  UNSW Newsroom
  New innovation and technology hub to tackle the future of law and the legal profession
  UNSW Newsroom
  Two new strategic alliances between UNSW and Allens and the Law Society of NSW will aim to tackle the challenges of technological change and its impact on lawyers, law and the legal system. law_hub.jpg. Photo: Shutterstock. Two new strategic alliances ...
  
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• Information technology firms faced with a shortage of workers are training their own - Chron.com

  24-11-2017 00:55 via chron.com
  Information technology firms faced with a shortage of workers are training their own
  Chron.com
  RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Some information technology companies are growing so concerned about their inability to find enough digital talent that they're training their own. IBM, Amazon and Microsoft now have apprenticeship programs that pay ...and more »
  
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