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USA Giappone
7-Eleven to buy stores and gas stations in U.S. expansion
Seven & I Holdings Co., the world’s largest convenience store operator, will buy 79 gas stations and convenience stores in California and Wyoming from CST Brands Inc. as it seeks to offset slowing demand at home. The purchase price was not disclosed. The Tokyo-based retailer’s U.S. unit, 7-Eleven Inc., entered ...
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Giappone
Shiseido to buy Gurwitch, adding U.S. beauty brands Mercier, ReVive
Shiseido Co. has agreed to buy U.S.-based Gurwitch Products LLC from closely held Alticor Inc., adding the Laura Mercier and ReVive brands as the more than 140-year-old cosmetics giant seeks growth overseas in the luxury and anti-aging products market. The Japanese company’s American unit will lead the acquisition, which will ...
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Giappone
Tech moguls declare era of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence and machine learning will create computers so sophisticated and godlike that humans will need to implant “neural laces” in their brains to keep up, Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told a crowd of tech leaders this week. While Musk’s description of an injectable human-computer link may ...
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USA Giappone
Apple services suffer outage in U.S., U.K., Asia
Apple users faced unexpected glitches Thursday, as the App Store, Apple TV and other key services were sidelined. An official Apple status web page confirmed the outage. Users in various countries, including the United States, U.K. and parts of Asia, flocked to social media reporting issues in purchasing and updating ...
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USA Giappone
Sorry bonito — Nagano brewer taps fish flakes for tasty export suds
Japan’s Yo-Ho Brewing Co. said Thursday that it has developed beer exclusively for export that uses dried bonito as one of its ingredients. The company, based in Karuizawa, a resort town in Nagano Prefecture, will start selling the product, Sorry Umami IPA, in the United States in July. Yo-Ho Brewing ...
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Etiopia Regno Unito
UK, Ethiopia to Strengthen Cooperation
[Ethiopian Herald] The officials have discussed ways of widening economic cooperation through investment and trade.
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Nigeria
Nigeria: Ekweremadu On Youth Investment
[Vanguard] In an environment such as our, one wonders how youths can come across platforms or avenues for investments or start-up businesses. Fortunately, there are fora such as summits, seminars, conferences, etc that come in handy where youth can get useful ideas in the area of their specific need.
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Brasile
Brasil se enfrenta a su peor recesión en 25 años y complica a la región
La economía de Brasil completó dos años en recesión en el primer trimestre de este año, cuando el PIB del país se encogió un 5,4 % respecto al mismo período de 2015, y la contracción de este año puede ser histórica, según los datos divulgados hoy por el Gobierno.
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Perù
“No he matado un solo árbol para hacer mis tarjetas”
<p>¿Esta pasión por hacer tarjetas te viene de la infancia? </p><p>No sé cómo empezó, pero nací en Europa y, de niña, agarraba la nieve y hacía estatuas. Llenaba el cerco del jardín de todo tipo de estatuas de nieve. Y cuando venía la primavera, lloraba, porque mis estatuas se derretían. ...
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Messico
Libro Narcohistoria se publica en México
<p><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; ">México. EFE.</span> El libro <span style="font-style: italic; ">Narcohistoria</span> recoge cien años de erróneas políticas antidroga en México y Estados Unidos con un relato minucioso que apunta que el “baño de sangre” mexicano en esta lucha tiene un claro cómplice, su vecino del norte, explicaron sus ...