US chipmaker Qualcomm will pay $975m (£640m) to Chinese authorities to end a 14 month anti-trust investigation into its patent…
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Egypt: 25 Killed In Riot Before Football Match
A riot outside a major football match in Egypt has killed at least 25 people, authorities have said.The violence came…
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HSBC Helped Clients Dodge Tax – Report
HSBC’s Swiss banking arm helped wealthy customers avoid tax and hide millions of dollars, according to a report by a…
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Ubuntu Smartphone Offers Alternative To Apps
An Ubuntu-powered smartphone is coming to the market a year and a half after a previous attempt to launch a…
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Banker Aldemir Bendine Named As New Petrobras Chief
Aldemir Bendine, a leading banker, is the new chief executive of Brazil’s scandal-hit oil giant Petrobras.He was not among the…
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E-Cigarettes Are Harmful To Lungs – Study
E-cigarettes contain toxic chemicals which could damage the lungs and immune system, scientists have discovered.Experiments carried out on mice found…
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New Ebola Cases Show First Rise in 2015
The number of new cases of Ebola went up in all three of West Africa’s worst-hit countries in the last…
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IBM To Cut More Than 110,000 Jobs, Report Says
IBM is reportedly planning its largest corporate layoff ever – cutting 111,800 of its staff.A report by a respected Silicon…
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Teenager Dies Snow-Tubing In US Winter Storm
A teenager has died in New York as he crashed into a lamppost while snow-tubing amid a huge storm in…
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Pair Threaten Legal Action Over Twitter Block
Two law professors in Turkey have written to Twitter asking the social network to cease blocking accounts in the country…
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Apple Boss In Line For $500m Stock Windfall
Apple boss Tim Cook is in line to receive half a billion dollars’ worth of stock if he remains as…
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Microsoft Shows Off HoloLens And Windows 10
Microsoft unveiled new glasses that overlay holograms on the real world, as it launched its latest operating system, Windows 10.The…
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