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Wal-Mart, founded in 1962 by Sam Walton, has been gobbling up smaller and niche players in e-commerce in an effort to reach online shopping market leader Amazon
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15.05.2017
Corporation pushing hard to catch Amazon in e-commerce
German energy giant RWE's net profit grew by 10 percent to $1.03 billion between January and March compared with the same period last year
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15.05.2017
Energy giant confident for full year after 'good' Q1
Ridesharer Lyft is joining forces with Waymo, the  self-driving car unit of Google parent Alphabet, to test self-driving car technology
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15.05.2017
Corporations to cooperate on self-driving cars
A computer-generated image released by CARTIVATOR Resource Management on May 15, 2017 shows the flying manned vehicle dubbed 'SkyDrive'
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15.05.2017
Automaker eyes 'flying car' future
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The rebound in world oil prices since the first quarter of 2016 has been positive for Russia as well as countries that rely on it for remittances and export demand, the European Bank for Reconstruction said
Business 10.05.2017
Bank sees oil price rebound boosting economic growth
 
Business 10.05.2017
Police minister scolds driver online
Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo, who was elected in December on a promise to fix a host of economic problems and fight corruption, stressed that his ministers "are coming to work, it is not going to be a holiday"
Business 10.05.2017
Rises to 13.0% in April in higher transport costs
French insurer AXA plans to list part of its US operations on the New York stock exchange
Business 10.05.2017
French insurer to list part of US operations in New York
Dutch bank ING said net profits for the first three months of 2017 came in at 1.14 billion euros, compared to 1.26 billion euros over the same period last year
Business 10.05.2017
Dutch bank posts first quarter profit fall
German media group Axel Springer said it made an adjusted net profit of 78.1mn euros in January and March, almost 20 percent more than in the same period last year
Business 10.05.2017
No let-up in digital publishing bonanza for media group
SoftBank's flamboyant founder Masayoshi Son was among the first businessmen to meet then President-elect Donald Trump in November and pledged $50 bn to help create US jobs
Business 10.05.2017
Mobile giant's net profit triples thanks to Alibaba sale
In a shock move, US President Donald Trump has fired FBI chief James Comey, who was heading a wide-ranging investigation into whether Trump's aides colluded with Russia to sway the US election last year
Business 10.05.2017
Markets stumble after Trump fires FBI director
Toyota, which lost its crown last year to Volkswagen as the world's top-selling automaker, expects a net profit of 1.5 trillion yen in the current year to March 2018
Business 10.05.2017
Automaker logs first annual profit fall in five years
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