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Apple to halt iPhone 6 sales in Beijing

  BEIJING / AP A Chinese regulator has ordered Apple Inc. to stop selling two versions of its iPhone 6 in Beijing after finding they look too much like a competitor, but Apple says sales are going ahead while it appeals. The ruling by an intellectual property tribunal is the latest legal stumbling block for Apple in its second-biggest global ...

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Tesco to sell £217mn Dobbies garden chain

  London / Bloomberg Tesco Plc agreed to sell its Dobbies Garden Centres chain for 217 million pounds ($309 million) as the U.K.’s biggest retailer continues to sell peripheral assets to focus on reviving its main supermarket business. Dobbies, which operates 35 garden-center stores across Scotland, England and Northern Ireland, will be bought by an investor group led by Midlothian ...

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India plans to convert rural roads into runways

  New Delhi / Bloomberg India is proposing to convert some of its remote rural roads into runways, both for defense and commercial planes, as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan to connect the nation’s 1.3 billion people. “We can close road traffic when a plane lands and open once the plane has taken off,” Nitin Gadkari, the transport ...

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