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  Reuters Kuwaiti telecoms group Zain expects to sell its mobile transmitter towers in Saudi Arabia for more than $500 million in the first half of 2017, its chief executive said. Zain, which operates in eight countries in the Middle East and Africa, has been exploring the sale of its towers in some of its markets since as early as ...

  Reuters Iraq’s oil ministry is postponing a bidding round for 12 small and medium-sized oil fields across three provinces from Nov. 30 to the middle of next year, the ministry said on its website on Thursday. The ministry’s statement said there are “essential changes” to the previous announcement, including plans for the oil ministry to develop some of the ...

  Bloomberg America just endured its first presidential election in which the majority of the electorate got its news from social media. And the outcome is already prompting soul searching by the companies that shaped it. Facebook Inc. will have to contend with mounting dissatisfaction over its role as the most widely used news filter in history. Forty-four percent of ...

  Bloomberg Chinese internet companies face a new reality after Donald Trump’s surprise victory as US president-elect — and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has the most to lose. On the campaign trail, Trump promised to upend global trade, saying that China is “killing us” on trade policy and proposing tariffs on Chinese goods of as much as 45 percent. If ...

  Bloomberg Volkswagen AG’s plot to cheat emissions tests by installing so-called defeat devices in its vehicles wasn’t limited to diesel cars, but also included at least six models of Audi 3.0-liter gasoline engines, according to a consumer lawsuit. In a class action on behalf of owners of more than 100,000 vehicles, the German carmaker’s Audi unit was accused of ...

  Bloomberg You might not be able to solve Rubik’s cube, but now you can make one. The multicolored puzzle that’s kept small and big hands busy since the 1970s lost the final round in a fight to hold on to a European Union trademark protection. EU trademark law seeks to prevent a company getting “a monopoly on technical solutions ...

Bloomberg The UK’s chief statistician said a measure of inflation including housing will become the favored gauge of consumer prices from March. CPIH — the consumer prices index including owner-occupiers’ housing costs — will be the “preferred measure” of inflation for the Office for National Statistics. Switching to the new index will address several flaws and limitations in alternative price ...

Bloomberg In a bold move against corruption and unaccounted wealth, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has acted to arrest the drift in his popularity and place constraints on election funding, which will benefit him in crucial state elections next year. But Modi’s late-night announcement of a crack down on unaccounted wealth through the withdrawal of high-denomination bank notes left Indians with ...

  Bloomberg Japanese lawmakers are revisiting a plan to build a $6.7 billion natural gas pipeline from Russia ahead of a visit by President Vladimir Putin to the Asian country next month. A group of about 80 lawmakers from ruling parties will ask the government by the end of this month to carry out a feasibility study on the project, ...

  Bloomberg China Evergrande Group, the country’s largest property developer, increa- sed its stake in rival China Vanke Co., renewing concerns about a potential battle for control. The Guangzhou-based developer bought 161.9 million Shenzhen-listed Vanke shares between Aug. 16 to Nov. 9, Evergrande said in a filing to Hong Kong’s stock exchange after the close of trading on Wednesday, boosting ...