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European firms dominate Uganda’s $1bn toll road bids

Bloomberg Uganda pre-qualified eight groups of companies for a public-private partnership to build and operate a 95-kilometre (59-mile) toll road worth more than $1 billion. France-based Vinci SA, Strabag SE Austria and Tecnasol Luisa Goncal of Portugal are leading groups in bids for the road linking the capital, Kampala, to Jinja town in the east, Uganda Roads Authority Executive Director ...

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Google, Mastercard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales

Bloomberg For the past year, select Google advertisers have had access to a potent new tool to track whether the ads they ran online led to a sale at a physical store in the US. That insight came thanks in part to a stockpile of Mastercard transactions that Google paid for. But most of the two billion Mastercard holders aren’t ...

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UK’s biggest energy suppliers losing customers to startups

Bloomberg The latest threat to the dominance of Britain’s six biggest energy suppliers is coming from small technology companies that automatically switch consumers to the cheapest deal. Their emergence couldn’t come at a worse time for the industry, which is already beset by lawmakers capping rates and suffering from perennial mistrust by consumers. On top of that, utilities are getting ...

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