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Bombardier eyes Morocco rail factory as part of African push

Bloomberg Bombardier Inc.’s train-equipment arm is looking to build a factory in Morocco if it wins a contract to supply rolling stock to the country’s state-owned railways. The facility would build railcars and perform engineering and maintenance work, Marc-Andre Lefebvre, a Bombardier spokesman, said. It would have about 600 employees and could open as soon as 2020, he said, declining ...

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Uber to merge Russian business with Yandex

Bloomberg Yandex NV, Russia’s largest technology company, received local antitrust approval to merge its ride-hailing business with Uber’s in the country, the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service said. Ordering rides from smartphone apps is driving growth in the Russian taxi market but the Yandex-Uber joint venture is required not to prevent its passengers, drivers and partners from working with other ride-hailing ...

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Skype disappears from Chinese app stores in web crackdown

Bloomberg Microsoft Corp.’s Skype has vanished from Apple Inc. and Android smartphone app stores in China, becoming the latest victim in Beijing’s sweeping internet clampdown. The internet phone and video service was no longer available on Apple’s iOS or on popular local Android stores such as Xiaomi Corp’s. The Ministry of Public Security notified Apple that a number of voice-over-internet-protocol ...

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