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Oil kills Brazil’s turtles, scaring off fishermen

Bloomberg More than a month since oil started washing up on some of Brazil’s most touristic beaches, dotting sand with black patches, killing sea turtles and scaring off fishermen, the origin of the crude is still a mystery. “We don’t know the oil’s origin, where it came from or how it got here,” Energy Minister Bento Albuquerque said at an ...

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Google’s $2.6bn Looker deal gets Justice Department review

Bloomberg US antitrust enforcers have started an in-depth review of Google’s $2.6 billion planned acquisition of a data analytics company, a further sign of greater scrutiny on big technology companies, according to people familiar with the situation. The antitrust division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking more information from Google and Looker Data Sciences Inc related to ...

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Telegram gets SEC halt on token sales after $1.7 billion ICO

Bloomberg The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) obtained a restraining order to stop the encrypted messaging app Telegram from flooding the US with digital tokens, claiming that its coins are unregistered securities that can’t be sold to American investors. The order halts Telegram from selling digital tokens known as Grams, according to a complaint unsealed in federal court in Manhattan. ...

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