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ALL DEALS 
July 20, 2017 SoftBank’s Son Finally Explains How All Those Deals Fit Together
Masayoshi Son has had a busy year even by the standards of Japan’s most prolific investor. On Thursday in Tokyo, he took time to explain how it all fits together. In the past six months, SoftBank Group Corp. has invested in businesses ranging from ride sharing, co-working and robotics to agriculture, cancer detection and autonomous driving. The 59-year-old […]
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July 15, 2017 Here Are All The Best Amazon Prime Day Deals
We hope you love the products we recommend! Just so you know, BuzzFeed may collect a share of sales from the links on this page. Amazon Prime Day, the day when Amazon posts more deals than you could ever conceivably look through in a lifetime, is here! We waded through the mountains of bargains for […]
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July 10, 2017 DANNIELLE OWENS-REID IS BRINGING GENDER-NEUTRAL CLOTHING TO ALL
For a lot of people (male, female, non-binary), finding clothing that’s comfortable and isn’t confined to a gender-specific label is no easy feat. Dannielle Owens-Reid is one of those people. For her, some clothes were too masculine and some were too feminine, and she knew too many people who were encountering the same problem. Owens-Reid […]
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July 6, 2017 Free trade deals ‘at all cost’ frustrate Spanish farmers
Spanish farmers are worried about the impact trade deals with Canada and Mercosur will have on certain sectors, particularly livestock. [Shutterstock] Spain’s agricultural sector is concerned about free trade negotiations between the European Union and third parties. The agreement with Canada (CETA) and ongoing talks with South American trade bloc Mercosur are raising doubts in […]
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June 17, 2017 John Manley: Republicans will be hoping that DUP/Tory deal will all end in tears.
DUP leader Arlene Foster and her deputy leader Nigel Dodds arrive at 10 Downing Street for talks with Theresa May. Picture by Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire IT’S rare for the north’s broadcast media and their counterparts in Britain to be camped out side-by-side on Downing Street, as ordinarily these two political spheres are kept entirely separate. […]
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June 17, 2017 Park City acquires Bonanza Flat, grandest of all land deals
City Hall on Thursday completed the $38 million acquisition of Bonanza Flat, the municipal government’s grandest open space purchase, as the Park City Council cast the necessary votes during a joyous meeting that seemed a far-fetched possibility over the decades that Park City desired ownership of the land. The City Council approved three items related […]
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June 17, 2017 Megafight principals all agree closing Mayweather-McGregor deal came off smoothly
UFC chief Dana White on how the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor megafight came together: “It’s been one of the smoothest deals we’ve ever done.” Buda Mendes/Zuffa LLC/Getty Images The Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor megafight, which many think could approach the $600 million-plus revenue record set by Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao in 2015, actually was not that difficult to make once […]
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May 22, 2017 Donald Trump eyes mother of all deals in Middle East
Donald Trump is seeking to secure the elusive diplomatic ‘Holy Grail’ Donald Trump thinks he knows real estate but when he arrives in Jerusalem he will be stepping onto one of the most contested and difficult to price – in terms of peace at least – chunks of land in the world. The US leader […]
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May 18, 2017 Sinclair programming the Trumpiest of all deals
(The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.) By Jeffrey Goldfarb NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters Breakingviews) – Sinclair Broadcast may be pulling off the defining deal of the nascent Trump era. The Baltimore-based owner of 173 television stations unveiled a plan last week to buy Chicago rival Tribune Media […]
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May 15, 2017 New deals for All Blacks Lienert-Brown and Harris
All Blacks duo Anton Lienert-Brown and Nathan Harris have signed new contracts with the Chiefs and New Zealand Rugby. Centre Lienert-Brown made nine appearances for the All Blacks in his debut international season last year and has renewed until 2020. Four-times-capped Harris, meanwhile, has agreed a deal until 2019, having returned to action last week […]
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May 9, 2017 Ready for the monster of all deals? We crunched some numbers on Warren Buffett’s wish list
Warren Buffett’s war chest is ready for his next deal — maybe even his biggest one yet. The company’s cash swelled to $86.4 billion at the end of 2016, and at this rate it means even takeovers in the $100 billion ballpark are conceivable, as my colleague Noah Buhayar wrote for Bloomberg News this week. He flagged […]
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CLOTHING 
May 9, 2017 ‘We all want to look good’: Calgary company adapts clothes for those with disabilities
A former Olympian hopes her family’s new online clothing store will give people with disabilities more independence. Super-Fly sells trendy clothing with strategically placed zippers that make the clothes easy to get on and off. “We all want to look good,” said Michelle Cameron-Coulter, who won a gold medal in synchronized swimming in 1988. “How […]
