Data on Land Use Deficient Without Accounting of Illicit Activity. January 13th, 2020. A professor in a button-down shirt poses for a photo in an archival
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Visa has agreed to acquire Plaid, a group that connects financial-technology companies with their customers’ bank accounts, for $5.3 billion in the latest large tech-focused deal by the payments company. The acquisition of the Silicon Valley company, which …
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News Corp will donate $5 million to the bushfire relief effort after weeks of criticism over its coverage of the crisis. The multimillion-dollar donation is in addition to the personal donations of executive chairman Rupert Murdoch, Jerry Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch …
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices edged lower on Tuesday as receding Middle East tensions took some heat out of the market, with both Tehran and Washington desisting from any further escalation after this month’s clashes. FILE PHOTO: Oil pump jacks …
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New York | Igor Tulchinsky’s WorldQuant dismissed about 130 employees and is shuttering five offices, according to people familiar with the matter. The quantitative hedge fund, which manages more than $US7.5 billion ($10.88 billion) for investors including …
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