Thermo Fisher Scientific today terminated its agreement to acquire QIAGEN after the would-be buyer failed to persuade enough QIAGEN shareholders to approve the potentially $12.5 billion deal. Shareholders with only 47% of outstanding QIAGEN shares …
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One lucky person won the $168.5 million Powerball jackpot announced Wednesday night by buying the ticket at a Publix in Boynton Beach. BOYNTON BEACH — Luis Canul regularly buys his lottery tickets at the Publix Super Market at Congress Avenue and …
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Three Eastern Kentucky counties celebrated new economic development opportunities Thursday provided by funding from the Abandoned Mine Lands Pilot Program. Since 2016, the AML pilot program awarded $130 million in federal money to Kentucky.
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Washington, DC (CNN) Michigan announced Thursday that it’s teaming with tech and auto companies to attempt to retrofit a roughly 40-mile stretch of two roads outside Detroit exclusively for self-driving vehicles. Michigan’s partners include Ford and Sidewalk …
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(Bloomberg) — A U.S. coronavirus loan program for small businesses closed with almost $134 billion in remaining funds and with plans for a new round of aid on hold. The Small Business Administration, which runs the Paycheck Protection Program with the …
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