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Lego cuts 1,400 jobs following first drop in sales in 13 years

The Danish toy manufacturer seeks efficiency after posting first revenue fall in more than a decade in the first half of the year

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Angry Birds maker Rovio plans IPO

The company behind the smash hit phone game Angry Birds is seeking funds to make new titles

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Walmart and Google challenge Amazon with voice shopping partnership

The two industry giants are aiming to improve their position in the ecommerce market by offering consumers voice-based shopping via their smartphones

BHP set to sell underperforming US shale business

The world’s largest mining company could make $10bn from the sale of its US shale division, but that would still represent a significant loss on its 2011 investment

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Total acquires Maersk Oil in $7.45bn deal

The French oil group will pay $4.95bn in shares and assume part of the Danish company’s debt

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Walmart’s online sales soar in the US

Walmart, the world’s largest offline retailer, sees good results in e-commerce sales

Rural Mexican farmers rally against NAFTA renegotiations

Rural farmers in Mexico take to the streets to protest the government’s attempt to save free trade with the US

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Microsoft advances in the cloud computing space with latest acquisition

Microsoft’s purchase of Cycle Computing could see high-performance applications move from Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services to Microsoft’s Azure platform

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Linde ovecomes union pressure to begin acceptance period for $75bn Praxair merger

Linde and Praxair shareholders have 10 weeks to approve a merger that would create a new leader in the gas industry

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FMC set to buy home dialysis systems manufacturer NxStage for $2bn

Fresenius Medical Care has sought to expand its home care provision by acquiring dialysis treatment rival NxStage

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Toyota and Mazda enter joint venture to build $1.6bn US assembly plant

Japanese car manufacturers Toyota and Mazda have agreed to share a new $1.6bn manufacturing plant in the US, while further pooling resources to research the development of electric vehicles

Uber rivals Didi Chuxing and Taxify form cross-continental partnership

China’s largest taxi app, Didi Chuxing, will invest in Europe’s Taxify in order to help the company expand its operations