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German‎ watchdog suspected VW scam on CO2 emissions: report

Germany's motor industry watchdog raised suspicions Volkswagen was using prototype vehicles to lower carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in tests in 2015 soon after VW's manipulation of diesel emissions tests was uncovered, the Berliner Zeitung newspaper reported on Saturday. It quoted the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) as telling VW in a November 2015 email it would choose test models randomly and appoint new external experts to carry out testing because of doubts about…

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Snapchat to reveal financials within a week: sources

The sources, who cautioned that Snapchat's plans may still change, asked not to be named because the information is private. A spokeswoman for Snap Inc declined to comment. Snap Inc expects to go public as soon as March and could be valued at $20 billion to $25

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U.S. consumers ebullient; home prices gain

House prices continued their steady recovery in October, although a spike in borrowing costs after Trump's Nov. 8 victory could present a headwind to sustained home value gains. The Conference Board said on Tuesday its Consumer Confidence Index rose to 113.7 this month from an upwardly revised 109.4 in November. The gain in confidence was entirely due to

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Taco Bell to hire 100,000 as part of U.S. expansion

Taco Bell, which operates about 7,000 restaurants in the United States, generated revenue of about $2 billion in 2015. Taco Bell's U.S. expansion follows its plans to grow its international store base to 1,000 restaurants by 2022. The planned hiring and expansion efforts come on the heels of Yum Brands' spinoff of its China operations, the company's top profit generator, into a separate unit called Yum China Inc earlier this

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Samsung America says it has replaced most recalled Galaxy Note 7s

(Reuters) – Samsung Electronics America said on Friday it has replaced nearly 85 percent of all recalled Galaxy Note 7 devices as it works to resolve the issue of fire-prone phones. South Korean parent company Samsung Electronics Co Ltd announced the global recall of at least 2.5 million Note 7s in early September following numerous reports of the smartphones catching fire. Samsung will be releasing a software update in the coming days to limit the phone's ability

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Berkshire profit falls 24 percent, keeps Wells Fargo stake

Berkshire is Wells Fargo's largest shareholder. Quarterly net income for Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire fell to $7.2 billion, or $4,379 per Class A share, from $9.43 billion, or $5,737 per share, a year earlier. Operating profit, which excludes investment and derivative gains and losses, rose 7 percent to

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Alphabet’s unit discloses Snapchat investment

(Reuters) – Alphabet Inc's venture capital arm CapitalG, earlier known as Google Capital, disclosed an investment in Snapchat by adding the social networking firm's logo to a page on its investment portfolio website. CapitalG has not made a formal announcement and it was not clear when Google made the investment. The …

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Citigroup fails to halt AT&T use of ‘thanks’

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A judge on Thursday rejected Citigroup Inc's bid for a preliminary injunction to stop AT&T Inc from using the phrase “AT&T thanks” on a customer loyalty program, which the bank called too similar to its trademarked “thankyou.” U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan said Citigroup has not shown that customers would likely be confused, or that it would suffer irreparable harm, if AT&T kept saying “AT&T thanks” while the bank&#…

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Email campaign asks McDonald’s to take U.S. antibiotic curbs global

By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A charity looking to fight the rise of dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria on Thursday asked the public to help convince McDonald's restaurants around the world to stop serving meat and milk from animals raised with routine use of medically important antibiotics. A week after the world's biggest fast-food company took that step with poultry at its U.S. restaurants, U.K.-based ShareAction launched an online campaign enabling people to email McDonald's Corp CEO Steve Easterbrook. The group, which…

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New York Times revenue falls on lower ad sales

(Reuters) – New York Times Co reported a 1.2 percent fall in quarterly revenue as ad sales fell in its print and digital businesses. Digital ad revenue, which contributes about a third of total ad revenue, fell 1.3 percent to $41.8 million, while print advertising revenue fell 9 percent, the company said on Tuesday.

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