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Google to tap Lazard to review potential bid for Twitter

  Bloomberg Google is working with a financial adviser to consider a potential bid for Twitter Inc., as the social-media company continues to explore a sale, according to a person familiar with the arrangement. In tapping Lazard Ltd., Google hasn’t indicated it will definitely make an offer for Twitter. But the move suggests that Google is evaluating the option, pitting ...

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Spotify’s 40 million tunes won’t go far with CD-happy Japanese

  AP On a recent muggy afternoon in Tokyo, 21-year old Shintaro Naganuma joined several hundred customers browsing CDs at the eight-story downtown outpost of music retail chain Tsutaya. Having discovered a couple of new rock artists on YouTube, the third-year university student hit Tsutaya Co.’s flagship store in trendy Shibuya to look up their albums. That process encapsulates the ...

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UAE, Canada to raise economic, trade cooperation to new heights

  OTTAWA / WAM The UAE and Canada have restated their willingness to harness promising economic, trade, business and investment opportunities to raise their bilateral co-operation to new heights. The pledge for greater cooperation came at the conclusion of the first meeting of UAE-Canada Joint Economic Committee meetings, held in the Canadian capital, Ottawa. The two countries explored opportunities for ...

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