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US technology giant Apple has signed a deal to bring its iPhone to China Mobile - the world's largest carrier.
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The BBC's Linda Yueh speaks to venture capitalist William Saito about the challenges faced by Japanese women in the business world.
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Councils around England generated a record £594m surplus from parking activities in the past financial year, according to the RAC Foundation.
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The Tiffany & Co jewellery chain is ordered to pay Swatch Group, the world's largest watch-maker, some $448m (£274m) over a failed joint venture.
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US smartphone manufacturer Apple has reached an agreement to bring its iPhone to the world's biggest phone carrier, China Mobile.
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The family firm which invented the snow globe 113 years ago
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Erwin Perzy III has grown up surrounded by fake snow - the recipe for which remains a closely guarded secret
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The BBC's biggest stories from the 2013 year in business
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How preparations for Christmas 2014 are already beginning for some businesses
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Citizens Advice is accusing councils of letting bailiffs get away with threatening and aggressive behaviour when collecting council tax debts.
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A proposed new law designed to improve consumer protection for purchasers of digital music risks being inconsistent, a committee of MPs has said.
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US technology giant Apple has signed a deal to bring its iPhone to China Mobile - the world's largest carrier.
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A bishop warns the UK risks "losing the safety net" the benefit system "should provide" as the new universal credit is brought in.
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Marks & Spencer has apologised after a Muslim member of staff refused to serve a customer trying to buy alcohol.
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A new reservoir of melted water lurking below the Greenland ice sheet may have big implications for sea level rise.
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Dozens of shellfish nurseries in Scotland will be protected under new legislation that has come into force.
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Australia is to send a surveillance plane to the Southern Ocean in a bid to stop conflict between Japanese whaling vessels and environmentalists.
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The government's Help to Buy scheme to lift the housing market should be reconsidered, according to the Business Secretary Vince Cable.
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Thirteen people, including the two owners, are charged over a Bangladesh garment factory fire last year that killed more than 100 people.
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Retailers are trying to attract shoppers into the stores with pre-Christmas sales on what is thought to be the biggest retail weekend of the year.
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Astronauts at the International Space Station have completed the first of a series of spacewalks to carry out urgent repairs.
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Astronauts at the International Space Station complete the first of a series of spacewalks to carry out urgent repairs to the cooling system.
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How the UK's nocturnal specialists are faring
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Should we fear reports of a looming global wine shortage?
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Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto signs a law that changes the constitution to allow foreign companies to drill for oil and gas for the first time since 1938.
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