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Mobile payments app Yoyo raises $15 million in investment, backed by German retail giant Metro Group

Pau Barrena | Bloomberg | Getty Images A worker demonstrates a mobile payment system at the Visa stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain last February. Yoyo Wallet, Europe’s fastest growing mobile payments app, raised £12 million ($15.3 million) in a Series B round, it announced on Monday. …

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US top court to rule on last cases as talk about Kennedy swirls

Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Chief Justice John Roberts (seated C) leads Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (front row, L-R), Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Stephen Breyer, Justice Elena Kagan (back row, L-R), Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch in taking a new family photo …

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UK PM Theresa May strikes deal to get Northern Irish DUP support for minority government

Kevin Coombs | Reuters Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May speaks outside 10 Downing Street after an attack on London Bridge and Borough Market left 7 people dead and dozens injured in London, Britain, June 4, 2017. British Prime Minister Theresa May struck a deal on Monday to prop up her …

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Sale of Edward Albee’s Art Collection Will Benefit His Foundation

Photo Some of the art from Edward Albee’s loft in TriBeCa. Credit Colin Miller, via Sotheby’s Edward Albee is, of course, best known for his plays (the most famous: “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”). But he was also a collector, and visitors to his TriBeCa loft were often struck by …

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Facebook in talks to produce original TV-quality shows: WSJ

Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote address at Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference on April 18, 2017 at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. Facebook is in talks with Hollywood studios about producing scripted, TV-quality shows, with an aim of launching original programming by late summer, the …

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What’s on TV Monday: ‘Dalya’s Other Country’ and ‘Making a Scene With James Franco’

Photo Dalya Zeno at a protest in “Dalya’s Other Country.” Credit Dustin Pearlman A Syrian-American teenager adjusts to life in a new world in “Dalya’s Other Country,” and James Franco parodies memorable pop culture moments in “Making a Scene.” What’s on TV DALYA’S OTHER COUNTRY 10 p.m. on PBS (check …

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‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Is a Box Office Clunker

Photo A scene from “Transformers: The Last Knight.” Credit Bay Films/Paramount Pictures, via Associated Press Even star vehicles run out of gas eventually. “Transformers: The Last Knight,” the fifth installment of Michael Bay’s maximalist action series, landed with a thud at the North American box office this weekend, taking in …

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Review: In ‘Measure for Measure,’ Desperately Seeking Solutions in a Problem Play

That it is being enforced now is the result of a peculiar governing gambit by the ruling Duke. Having ignored the increasing debauchery of his city for so long, and being bent a bit toward debauchery himself, he figures that the only way to restore moral order is to take …

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Art Gallery Closures Grow for Small and Midsize Dealers

Some see the solidifying of a class society. “There is less support for the low end of the market,” said Rachel A. J. Pownall, who prepared the European Fine Art Fair’s 2017 Art Market Report. Dr. Pownall added that “the gap has become greater” between smaller galleries and large ones, …

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Disputes Over Prince’s Estate Throw the Future of His Vault Into Question

Universal said that it had been “misled and likely defrauded” by representatives of Bremer Trust, the Minnesota bank charged with administering the estate, and demanded its money back. According to Universal, it learned after closing the deal that some of the rights it had paid for conflicted with those held …

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