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Norway’s $1.8bn pipeline spat moves to appeals court

  Bloomberg Offshore gas-pipeline owners faced off again with Norway in an Oslo court on Tuesday in an appeal trial over tariff cuts that investors claim will cost them about $1.8 billion in income. The plaintiffs, companies owned by investors including Allianz SE and Canadian pension funds, are seeking to overturn a 2015 ruling that the government had acted lawfully ...

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Snapchat: Social media darling of the moment

  Bloomberg Abby Rogers, a 15 year-old from California’s Bay Area, recently took extreme measures to help a buddy in Michigan. The friend had her phone confiscated by parents and biked to a local library where she got on a computer, sent Rogers her Snapchat user name and password, and begged for a big favor. Every day for two weeks, ...

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Tech firm Digit vows to be a ‘siri’ for finances

  Bloomberg Late last year, just in time for Christmas shopping, Rachel Rhoads got a nice surprise. One of her secret savings accounts had grown to $900 behind her back. Rhoads, a 37-year-old Los Angeles-based sales director for a jewellery line, has an account with Digit, a financial technology company with an algorithm that tracks users’ income and spending patterns. ...

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