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Amazon delivers dazzling profits, as well as Prime price hike

Amazon.com Inc more than doubled its profit on Thursday and predicted strong spring results as the world's biggest onlin...

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Twitter beats forecasts after announcing results

Twitter reported its second profitable quarter and topped Wall Street estimates for revenue and monthly active users,...

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WhatsApp raises minimum age in Europe to 16 ahead of data law change

WhatsApp, the popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, is raising its minimum age from 13 to 16 in Europe to hel...

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UK bans epilepsy and bipolar disorder drug

A Sanofi drug for epilepsy and bipolar disorder linked to thousands of birth defects has been banned in Britain for use ...

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Facebook publishes new rule book on content

Facebook have released a rule book for the types of posts it allows on its social network, giving far more detail than e...

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Ad sales surge at Google parent Alphabet, but so do costs

Strong growth in ad sales on Google search and YouTube were not enough to offset a surge in costs at parent Alphabet Inc...

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Debenhams cuts dividend and warns on outlook as profit halves

Debenhams has issued a warning for the full-year outlook for the second time in four months ...

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Costa vows to recycle one billion coffee cups

Costa Coffee has pledged to recycle half a billion coffee cups a year by 2020. ...

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JD Wetherspoon shuts down all its social media

JD Wetherspoon has closed all its social media accounts saying it was taking a stand against an industry accused of mis-...