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Overcoming roadblocks, bitcoin takes flight again 12 Oct 2017 - 08:35 pm
A man walking past a display cabinet containing models of Bitcoins in Hong Kong on August 3, 2016. (AFP / Anthony Wallace)
Lufthansa to swallow lion's share of Air Berlin 12 Oct 2017 - 02:52 pm
A Lufthansa airliner taxis next to the Air Berlin aircraft at Tegel airport in Berlin, Germany, October 12, 2017. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
Global steel sector’s recovery at risk: Report 11 Oct 2017 - 12:00 am
Figures from China show it has cut nearly 100 million tonnes of legal steel capacity and 120 million tonnes of illegal low-grade capacity since last January, but industry analysis shows only marginal declines in overall capacity.
China’s bike-sharing scheme leader Ofo plans Paris debut 10 Oct 2017 - 11:17 pm
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New Embraer Phenom 300E corporate jet 10 Oct 2017 - 11:17 pm
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Nvidia creates a new computer to drive autonomous car future 10 Oct 2017 - 10:54 pm
FILE PHOTO: Nvidia Founder President and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang delivers a keynote address at CES 2017 at The Venetian Las Vegas on January 4, 2017 in Las Vegas (Ethan Miller / Getty Images / AFP)
Walmart sees the future and it is digital 10 Oct 2017 - 10:54 pm
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UK productivity threatens public purse: watchdog 10 Oct 2017 - 10:54 pm
General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress umbrella body, Frances O'Grady, gave a more critical assessment of the gloomy news on Tuesday. (Johninnit/Wikimedia Commons)
Uber puts the brakes on UberPOP in Norway 09 Oct 2017 - 06:41 pm
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1,400 Air Berlin workers to lose jobs: Union 07 Oct 2017 - 05:23 pm
This file photo taken on September 12, 2017 shows aircrafts of German airline Air Berlin parked at the airport in Duesseldorf, western Germany, after the troubled airline had to cancel flights due to
Airlines may cut flights by 30% in France Tuesday due to strike 06 Oct 2017 - 11:58 pm
France's President Emmanuel Macron (C) smiles as he visits the construction fair in Paris, on October 6, 2017.  AFP/ Thibault Camus
Dollar gains hound EM currencies 06 Oct 2017 - 11:58 pm
Pedestrians walking past an electric quotation board displaying the Nikkei key index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the file picture.
Renault plans China growth & more electric vehicles 06 Oct 2017 - 11:31 pm
Renault-Nissan Chairman and CEO Carlos Ghosn looks on during a press confrence on the Renault strategic plan
Appetite for Argentina pushes $3.5bn IPO pipeline boom 06 Oct 2017 - 11:05 pm
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Why energy-rich Australia suffers the world's priciest power 06 Oct 2017 - 10:59 pm
A general view of Hunter Valley, one of the coal mines in Australia (Photograph credit:  Max Phillips)
Franco-German bonds would be a good move, senior Merkel ally says 06 Oct 2017 - 10:59 pm
Germany has always opposed any plans for the euro zone to issue collective debt, but Norbert Roettgen, a member of Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), said the new government needed to understand Europe must make progress.
Dollar pauses before next move; ECB eyed 05 Oct 2017 - 11:45 pm
Benjamin Franklin US 100 dollar banknotes and a Chinese 100 yuan banknote with the late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong are seen in this January 21, 2016 picture illustration (REUTERS / Jason Lee)
Uber competitor hits Paris roads with Chinese help 05 Oct 2017 - 01:27 pm
Markus Villig of Estonia, founder and CEO of Taxify, the fastest growing ridesharing platform in Europe and Africa, poses during a photo session, on October 2, 2017 in Paris. / AFP / Martin BUREAU