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• Black Friday is not just about physical sales — Apple's App Store may have set a single-day US record (AAPL)

  01-12-2018 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Apple may have set a one-day app sales record in the United States on Black Friday with $52 million in sales.
  That's according to a new analysis from Sensor Tower, an app analytics firm. 
  Games, many of which were discounted, drove the big day. Black Friday isn't just for doorbusters and deals — a lot of people download apps, too.
  That's according to a new analysis from Sensor Tower, an app analytics firm, which found that US consumers set a new single-day revenue record for the
  
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• The US is becoming a force to be reckoned with in the oil market

  01-12-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oil output in the US jumped 20% from 2017 levels in September.
  The US is expected to become a net energy exporter within the next five years.Watch oil prices in real time here.After becoming the world's largest oil producer this year, US influence in the energy market has continued to grow.US production rose to a record high of 11.475 million barrels per day in September, the Energy Information Administration said Friday. That's about 20% higher than output over the same period in 2017 and the s
  
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• Facebook is quietly developing ‘soft robotics’ — flexible robots that move and act like living organisms (FB)

  01-12-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Facebook has several open job listings for PhD students in "soft robotics."
  Soft robotics is an experimental field of robotics that draws inspiration from biology, from lizard tongues to octopuses.
  It focuses on building flexible robots using next-generation materials that can adapt to real-world environments.
  Facebook has quietly been hiring in the field for a year, and the roles don't appear to be related to any publicly announced hardware projects at the company.Facebook is trying to figure o
  
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• 5 reasons why Elon Musk should rescue a GM factory in Ohio (TSLA, GM)

  01-12-2018 14:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  GM is likely to close a factory in Ohio next.
  Tesla has already taken over one shuttered GM plant in California.
  Tesla CEO Elon Musk could revisit that playbook, saving millions if not billions and cutting a deal with President Trump.
  Last week, General Motors ripped a Band-Aid off one of its biggest problems: it has too many factories in the US and Canada building unpopular passenger cars when consumers want SUVs — so the automaking giant announced that it would idle four plants in the Oh
  
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• The 'Fearless Girl' statue is on the move to her new home in front of the New York Stock Exchange

  01-12-2018 14:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  The "Fearless Girl" statue, a symbol of female can-do business spirit, has been removed from her spot opposite Wall Street's "Charging Bull."
  The statue will move to a location in front of the New York Stock Exchange by the end of this year, said officials.
  State Street Global Advisors placed the statue opposite Wall Street's iconic "Charging Bull" statue in March 2017 as part of its campaign to pressure companies to add more women to their boards. 
  New York City extended the temporary inst
  
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• Bank of America Merrill Lynch has more than doubled its share of the US IPO market this year — here's how it happened

  01-12-2018 13:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bank of America Merrill Lynch has dominated the US IPO market in terms of deals and volume in 2018.
  BAML is first on the league table for IPO volume by a wide margin, working on 57 IPOs in the US this year that have raised $25 billion in capital, according to Bloomberg data.
  The bank's 11.1% share of the market is nearly 2.5 times its share from last year.
  The stark turnaround from 2017 is in part because of the episodic nature of the IPO business, as well as the firm's deep experience in health
  
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• Stories of the week

  01-12-2018 01:00 via warc.com
  Here’s some of the big stories on WARC last week for you to catch up on if you haven’t already read them. US DoJ Ad fraud takedown 'sends message'Eight individuals from Russia and Kazakhstan have been charged by the US...
  
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