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BlackBerry’s Facebook suit latest in patent battle

Bloomberg BlackBerry Ltd., seeking ways to stem revenue declines, is dusting off its old patents and asking other companies to pay up for using technology BlackBerry claims it invented years ago. The latest skirmish broke out, when BlackBerry sued Facebook Inc in federal court in Los Angeles, claiming the social media giant has built swaths of its empire on messaging ...

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Britain’s pension liabilities increase 7.6 trillion pounds

Bloomberg UK pension liabilities increased by 7.6 trillion pounds in the five years through 2015, government figures published on Wednesday show. They stood at 7.6 trillion pounds, with the state pension—a universal entitlement paid by the government—accounting for more than half the amount, the Office for National Statistics said. There were more than 2 trillion pounds of entitlements linked to ...

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Car-tariff threat from Trump misses mark in Germans-in-US era

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s threat that he could tax cars imported from Europe was premised on the idea that German automakers pour Benzes and Bimmers into the US while making it “impossible” for American cars to sell there. General Motors Co., America’s largest carmaker, largely bailed from Europe last year for reasons that had less to do with protectionism than ...

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