Business Stories from September 24, 2016 (Change date)
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Marriott's next battle: the Expedia warSep 25, 2016 7:20 am - The bidding war for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. made global headlines as Marriott International fended off China's Anbang Insurance Group Co. to become the ...
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Rubicon closing in Batavia, consolidating with Bensenville plantSep 28, 2016 8:21 am - Rubicon Technology, a maker of synthetic sapphire products, is closing its six-year-old Batavia plant and consolidating it with one in Bensenville. Batavia Mayor Je...
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10 cool things to try in iOS 10Sep 27, 2016 6:22 am - Apple's new iOS 10 update is sneakily big and packs a lot of changes that you may not come across if you aren't looking for them. Here are 10 small changes to Apple's ne...
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For EBay CEO, beating Amazon means trying not to be AmazonSep 25, 2016 7:20 am - EBay Chief Executive Officer Devin Wenig took the stage in a Las Vegas convention center with arms raised like a prize fighter after winning a stunning upset. This was t...
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A stretch of interstate reserved for driverless cars?Sep 25, 2016 7:20 am - If you have nightmares about robots taking over the world, here's something that might really scare you: some tech industry veterans in Seattle want to ban human drivers...
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This drone has arms and could lift a toddler. (Don't try this at home.)Sep 25, 2016 7:20 am - A Japanese firm has built an aerial drone with two arms and hawklike talons that is capable of lifting objects that weigh as much as 22 pounds. That's roughly the weight...
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Silicon Valley venture capitalists pay the highest rent in the U.S.Sep 24, 2016 7:20 am - Aydin Senkut started his venture capital firm Felicis Ventures in San Francisco a decade ago. Five funds and more than $430 million later, Senkut is ready to open an off...
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Apple wants to patent the bag you carry out of the storeSep 25, 2016 7:20 am - Apple is known for challenging the conventions of personal technology with its computers, smartphones and tablets. But the company's latest innovation may not be the wat...
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Self-driving cars may force error-prone human motorists off the roadSep 25, 2016 7:20 am - New rules of the road for robot cars coming out of Washington could lead to the eventual extinction of one of the defining archetypes of the past century: the human driv...
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Twitter to take photos, GIFs, videos out of character-limit countSep 25, 2016 7:20 am - Twitter announced recently that media extras such as photos, GIFs, and videos along with quoted tweets and user polls will no longer "use up" the 140-character limit per...
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