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Google taps $50.4 B mobile gaming business with Unity ad partnership

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Employees work at the Unity Technologies SF office in San Francisco, California, U.S., Google is strengthening its position in mobile advertising by partnering with top game development platform Unity. Under the agreement announced Thursday, marketers who use Google’s mobile ad platform AdMob …

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Tesla stock soars after earnings, promises of a profitable second half

Joshua Lott | Getty Images Engineer and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk of The Boring Company talks about constructing a high speed transit tunnel at Block 37 during a news conference on June 14, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. Shares of Tesla soared roughly 9 percent at the start of trading Thursday …

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Trump wants to convince Mueller team that probe is witch hunt: Report

Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Florida State Fairgrounds Expo Hall in Tampa, Florida, on July 31, 2018.  President Donald Trump has prodded his attorneys in recent days to arrange for him to be interviewed by special counsel …

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Israel claims Syrian civil war is effectively over

YOUSSEF KARWASHAN | AFP | Getty Images A Syrian soldier waves the national flag atop the Greek Orthodox Church of St. George in the town of Quneitra in the Syrian Golan Heights on July 27, 2018. – The town was almost completely destroyed by departing Israeli soldiers in 1974 after …

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Wall Street believes this could be the turning point for Tesla

Rashid Abbasi | Reuters Elon Musk, Chairman of SolarCity and CEO of Tesla Motors, speaks at SolarCity’s Inside Energy Summit Tesla shares leaped higher after chief executive Elon Musk said the electric car maker beat Wall Street’s revenue expectations, apologized for prior bad manners toward analysts and reiterated a promise …

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Ohio health agency gets 518 inquires in potential Chipotle outbreak

Scott Olson | Getty Images Food is served at a Chipotle restaurant on in Chicago, Illinois. The number of potential customers that were affected by a food borne illness outbreak at a Chipotle Mexican Grill in Ohio may be much higher than initially believed. The Delaware General Health District said …

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Tesla hits Model 3 goals, plans to make 6,000 a week by end of August

VCG | Getty Images A Tesla Model 3 car is on display during the Auto China 2018 at China International Exhibition Center on April 25, 2018 in Beijing, China.  Tesla said in a second quarter earnings update on Wednesday that it has repeatedly produced 5,000 Model 3 electric sedans in …

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Now that taxes aren’t such a big worry, what’s keeping investors up at night

Archive Photos | Getty Images American actress Vera Miles stars as Lila Crane in the horror classic ‘Psycho’, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1960. With individual tax rates down, a new boogeyman is haunting investors: inflation worries. Those were the findings from the American Institute of CPAs’ Personal Financial Satisfaction Index, …

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Tesla earnings Q2 2018

Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of Tesla Inc. Tesla is scheduled to report second-quarter results after the market close Wednesday in what may be one of the most highly anticipated earnings reports this season. Here’s what Wall Street expects, based …

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Brokers of short-term health plans get a boost after ACA rules eased

Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images Don Humbertson, a 64 year old lung cancer surviver, is examined by Dr. Wade Harvey at the Clay-Battelle Community Health Center March 21, 2017 in Blacksville, West Virginia. Companies that sell short-term health plans got a boost Wednesday after the Trump administration issued …

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