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Conte’s fractious Italian coalition under pressure

Bloomberg Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is set to push for revoking highway concessions held by Autostrade per l’Italia SpA, rejecting a final offer from the Benetton-owned toll-road manager in a dispute that has split his coalition. Shares of the company’s owner, Atlantia SpA, slumped. “I’m not satisfied at all with the offer, which is embarrassing,” Conte told newspaper Il ...

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Trump, more than Biden, is tapping into Facebook tools

Bloomberg President Donald Trump uses Facebook like a Swiss Army knife — to raise money, amplify his message, and mobilise voters. His rival, Joe Biden, uses the increasingly controversial social platform primarily to stick his hand out for donations. As he did in 2016, Trump is taking advantage of the social media giant’s granular knowledge of its users’ interests to ...

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Tech giants oppose Trump move on foreign students

Bloomberg Google, Microsoft and the US Chamber of Commerce backed a lawsuit by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology over the Trump administration’s order banning foreign students from the country if their universities are not offering in-person instruction. The court filing by the companies and business group backs a lawsuit challenging the July 6 directive as “invalid” due ...

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