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Updated 17 minutes ago
Google Inc., which has invested more than $1 billion in renewable-energy projects, is considering spending more on clean power in Africa after announcing its first solar investment on the continent.
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Updated 49 minutes ago
Tesla Motors Inc.’s Elon Musk is expanding a network of fast-charging stations, letting owners of his luxury electric cars drive coast-to-coast this year.
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Updated 34 minutes ago
Wells Fargo & Co. Chief Executive Officer John Stumpf said the biggest challenge to bankers is managing low interest rates and that the company had prematurely kept funds idle to gird for increases.
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Updated 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
William Pulte says the only way to truly save Detroit and get the housing market functioning properly again is to destroy large swaths of the city as quickly as possible.
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Updated 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
Warren Buffett’s energy unit will consolidate a western expansion begun in 2005 with its planned $5.6 billion acquisition of Nevada’s largest utility, potentially reigniting takeovers in the sector.
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Updated 29 minutes ago
Credit bureaus and payment companies are testing ways to use social media -- say, a Facebook Inc. post about a recently purchased Corvette -- to verify a person’s identity and even assess consumer creditworthiness.
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President Barack Obama told supporters his agenda remains unfinished as he returned to his hometown of Chicago for the first time in more than three months to help raise money for U.S. House Democrats.
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Updated 1 hour, 24 minutes ago
Google Inc.’s Motorola Mobility handset unit plans to unveil a new smartphone called Moto X by October, stepping up efforts to gain share from Apple Inc. in the market for handheld hardware.
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Updated 35 minutes ago
Support for legalizing same-sex marriage in California has reached a record high as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to rule on the state’s ban next month.
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James Holmes, facing capital murder charges over the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooting rampage that killed 12 people, lost a constitutional challenge to state’s death penalty law.
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