Andy Rubin, the co-founder and former leader of Android who switched recently to Google's robotics division, is leaving Google, the company said Thursday.
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The sturdy 88 year old Israeli industrialist, Stef Wertheimer, became a member of the Forbes Billionaires Club due to a combination of his warrior drive and a passionate dream of turning agrarian Israel into a world-class industrial power.
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Looks like GoPro is back on top again.
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Seven of the top 10 donors to super PACs in the 2014 election were billionaires.
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Taylor Swift has unveiled quite a few surprises of late—moving from Nashville to New York, ditching the country format that elevated her to superstar status, and, yes, trying her hand at rapping in new album 1989. But perhaps more surprising than all of these developments is the fact that Swift is on pace to sell more than 1 million copies of 1989 in its opening week alone—a feat no solo artist has achieved since Swift herself did it two years ago with Red.
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Uber fires its drivers at will, with no clear policy and sometimes with no warning -- a move that could seriously undercut its claim that its drivers are independent contractors and not employees, lawyers say.
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Republican billionaire B. Wayne Hughes, Jr., is joining liberals George Soros, Reed Hastings and others in backing criminal justice reform in California.
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A foundation set up by one of China’s most philanthropic couples has donated $10 million for scholarships for Chinese students to attend Yale University.
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Shares in ENN Energy Holdings, a natural gas distributor and energy firm, plunged for a second day in Hong Kong after it agreed to buy money-losing assets in the U.S. and Canada from the company’s Chinese billionaire chairman Wang Yusuo for $200 million.
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