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Toyota wins over US shoppers with new Camry, AV4s

Bloomberg Look out, Detroit: Toyota Motor Corp. is on a roll in the US. Toyota took 15 percent market share last quarter for the first time since 2009. Its RAV4 car-based sport utility vehicle is the industry’s most popular vehicle this year aside from the top pickups, outselling even its own Camry midsize sedan. It beat Ford Motor Co. each ...

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Google, Facebook lobby group asks for clearer ad disclosure laws

Bloomberg The Internet Association, a Washington-based group with members that include Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc., is advising lawmakers to clarify the responsibility of advertising platforms ahead of the companies’ testimony to Congress on the extent of Russian influence on their networks. The lobbying group wrote a series of principles, suggesting that the Federal Election Commission should ...

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Ghost town of Cobalt gets first jolt from Tesla’s electric cars

Bloomberg Ironically, Cobalt, Ontario—population 1,100—was built on silver. Remnants of a boom that transformed the town more than a century ago are everywhere. A mine headframe still protrudes from the roof of the bookstore, which was previously a grocery. The butcher used to toss unwanted bones down an abandoned 350-foot shaft in the middle of the shop floor and keep ...

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