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Tesla set to bulk up lithium-ion battery

Bloomberg The world’s biggest lithium-ion battery is about to get even bigger, with Tesla Inc set to beef up capacity at the Hornsdale site in South Australia. The system will be expanded by 50% to 150 megawatts, according to an announcement from Neoen SA, the French company that operates the site. The storage site has already saved consumers more than ...

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Google buys cloud firm despite antitrust probe

Bloomberg Google announced plans to buy enterprise software firm CloudSimple Inc, another sign the search giant isn’t letting a flurry of antitrust investigations interrupt its expansion strategy. CloudSimple will join Google Cloud, a priority business for the Alphabet Inc unit. The companies didn’t disclose financial terms. The acquisition could help Google get a foothold in a corner of the cloud-computing ...

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German search engine plants trees every time you browse

Bloomberg When fires raged across Brazil this summer and deforestation rates reached startling highs, users began downloading a small German search engine in a modest effort to counteract the devastation. Ecosia GmBH, a Berlin-based alternative to Google, donates as much as 80% of the profit it makes from running ads alongside search results to plant trees around the world. As ...

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