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Cricket-New Zealand still bubbling over semi-final performance

March 24, 2015 creative become-one, companies, ground-reigning, hotel-urbano, meet-four-times, silicon-valley, six-defeats, stutchbury, sydney, towering-six, while-their

By Greg Stutchbury AUCKLAND, March 25 (Reuters) – Grant Elliott’s towering six which propelled New Zealand into their first cricket World Cup final was still generating media buzz on Wednesday. The 36-year-old dispatched Dale Steyn’s delivery over deep midwicket to take New Zealand to 299 for six on Tuesday, giving them a tense four-wicket victory over South Africa in the first semi-final at Eden Park. It ended a run of six defeats in semi-finals for New Zealand, who will play either Australia or India in Sunday’s final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

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Swiss competition body approves Swisscom online directory merger

March 24, 2015 creative companies, india, internet, internet-users, largest-growth, phone-numbers, purchase, smartphone-user, supreme-court, swiss, telecoms

Switzerland's competition commission WEKO said on Tuesday it had approved the purchase of online directory search.ch by Swisscom, as the telecoms group tries to compete with the likes of Google in digital advertising. In a deal reached last year, Swisscom is to combine directory operator local.ch, which provides information on phone numbers, with Swiss media company Tamedia's search and information service search.ch in a joint subsidiary. Together the local online directories will reach 3.6 million internet users per month in Switzerland, and the merger will be completed by mid-2015, the companies said in a joint statement

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KKR, Baidu, Coatue to invest $170 million in China online used-car platform

March 18, 2015 publisher 170-million, beijing, cars-on-display, companies, equity-firm, funds, jointly-invest, newly-launched

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Private equity firm KKR & Co LP, search engine Baidu Inc and hedge fund Coatue said on Wednesday they will jointly invest $170 million in Chinese online used-car auction firm Uxin, aiming for a piece of the booming used-car market. Uxin will use the funds to expand a newly launched platform where auto retailers sell used cars to individuals, the companies said in a joint statement.

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Microsoft tackles China piracy with free upgrade to Windows 10

March 18, 2015 creative 170-million, bellevue, chief-executive, companies, genuine-copies, get-legitimate, microsoft, onto-machines, satya-nadella, windows

By Bill Rigby and Paul Carsten SEATTLE/BEIJING (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is making its biggest push into the heavily pirated Chinese consumer computing market this summer by offering free upgrades to Windows 10 to all Windows users, regardless of whether they are running genuine copies of the software. The move is an unprecedented attempt by Microsoft to get legitimate versions of its software onto machines of the hundreds of millions of Windows users in China

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Online payday lenders in $21 million accord with U.S. regulators

January 16, 2015 admin companies, consumer, federal, names-including, permission, racecar-driver, resolve-charges, san, twitter, united, united-states

Two online payday lending companies linked to a professional racecar driver have agreed to pay a record $21 million to resolve charges by U.S. regulators that they engaged in deceptive practices, the Federal Trade Commission said on Friday