本期内容: Tesla has appointed Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and Walgreens Boots Alliance executive Kathleen Wilson-Thompson to its board. The move further strengthens the board as pledged by founder Elon Musk to the Securities and Exchanges C

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本期内容: Uber reached a deal to sell its operations in China to Didi Chuxing, its arch-rival there, an acknowledgment that its costly campaign to conquer the ride-sharing market in China is over. Uber is taking a 17.7% stake in Didi as a conso

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本期内容: The purge of state institutions in Turkey intensified as the authorities sacked more than 15,000 education workers, including university professors and deans. The teaching licenses of 21,000 private-school staff were revoked. At least

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本期内容: Facebooks quarterly results roundly beat expectations. Overall revenues were up 59% year-on-year, to $6.4 billion, helped by spiking sales of video advertisements and ads on Instagram, the social-media giants picture-sharing platform.

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本期内容: Europe gave the world some of its top automakers, but it's losing out to China in the race to define the industry's future. China is the driving force in the business of electric vehicle batteries, which European leaders see as vital

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本期内容: HSBC, Britains biggest bank, said its headquarters would remain in London. The lender had pondered returning to Hong Kong, its base until the early 1990s. Recently Britains government recast its bank levy, which has cost HSBC $1.5 bil

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本期内容: Samsung scrapped its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone after a botched recall: the replacement devices, like the original ones, were prone to ignite. Launched in August, the flagship device had been intended to rival Apples iPhone. The stunnin

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本期内容: Hanjin Shipping scrambled to fund the unloading of its ships. The South Korean conglomerate declared bankruptcy last week; billions of dollars of consumer goods are at sea as ports worldwide refuse to accept its ships. Hanjins parent

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本期内容: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded on its launch pad in Cape Canaveral during pre-flight tests. The satellite it was due to carry into orbit on Saturday (which Facebook had planned to use to provide internet access in developing countr

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本期内容: WhatsApp, a popular messaging service, said it would relax its stance on privacy and start sharing its users phone numbers with Facebook, its parent. The change, which WhatsApp had vowed not to make when the social-media giant bought

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本期内容: Patrick Hickey, Europes most senior official on the International Olympic Committee, was arrested on suspicion of ticket touting. Police said the raid on Mr Hickeys hotel room in Rio de Janeiro was connected to the arrest on August 5t

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本期内容: In a 15-hour session Brazils Senate voted 59-21 in favour of an impeachment trial for Dilma Rousseff, the countrys embattled president. In May Ms Rousseff was suspended, ostensibly for dodgy accounting practices, after a similarly dra

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本期内容: Tom Staggs, long seen as the heir apparent to Disneys boss Bob Iger, said he would step down, evidently disappointed at not being guaranteed the succession. Mr Iger, who has run the entertainment conglomerate for 15 years, is due to d

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本期内容: Bernie Sanders provided the biggest surprise so far in Americas presidential primaries, narrowly beating Hillary Clinton in Michigans Democratic contest on Tuesday. Mrs Clinton, who trounced Mr Sanders in Mississippi the same day, rem

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本期内容: The European Space Agency and Russia launched a joint mission to Mars, with the lift-off of a Proton rocket in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft, comprising an orbiter, which will analyse methane and other gases in the Martian atmosphere, an

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本期内容: SamsungElectronics,theworldslargestsmartphone-maker,warnedthatitsprofitscouldfallforathirdsuccessiveyearin2016.TheSouthKoreangiantpointedtoslowingdemandforelectronicgadgetsandlowerpricesformemorychips,ofwhichitisalsothebiggestsupplier

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本期内容: A public inquiry in London reported that Alexander Litvinenko, an ex-KGB officer, was murdered in 2006 by two men working for Russias security service, probably on Vladimir Putins orders. Russia dismissed the report. Mr Litvinenko, a

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本期内容: Japans Supreme Court upheld a 19th-century law under which married couples must have the same legal surname. Women almost always take their husbands names as a resultbreaching constitutional guarantees of sexual equality, campaigners

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本期内容: America and Cuba agreed to restore scheduled commercial flights, the State Department said. The move comes a year after the two countries agreed to restore relations to normal. American tourism to Cuba, via charter flights, is booming

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本期内容: Warren Buffett is backing a bid for Yahoos core internet assets, news reports said. The 85-year-old head of Berkshire Hathaway, who has previously shunned investment in the industry, has joined forces with Dan Gilbert, a billionaire w

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