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‘Sweetest’ town clings to Hershey, adding to takeover hurdles

The impact of such views goes beyond sentimental in the wake of Mondelez International Inc's $23 billion bid to buy the company, which Hershey said on June 30 it had rejected. The town of Hershey, where the company's staunchest loyalists are referred to as “Hershey-ites”, has real influence over corporate decisions. The Hershey Trust, a $12 billion school charity and the company's controlling shareholder, has become increasingly involved in the local community over the decades, and

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Tesla told regulators about Autopilot crash nine days after accident

By Alexandria Sage and Paul Lienert SAN FRANCISCO/DETROIT (Reuters) – Tesla Motors alerted regulators to a fatality in one of its electric cars in partial self-driving Autopilot mode nine days after it crashed, the company said on Tuesday, …

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Apple fires back at Spotify over music streaming claims

SAN FRANCISCO/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Apple Inc fought back on Friday against Spotify's claims that the U.S. tech giant had hampered competition in music streaming by rejecting an update to the Swedish service's iPhone app. The two companies have gone head to head in the battle…

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Uber raises $3.5 billion from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund

By Heather Somerville SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Uber [UBER.UL] has raised $3.5 billion from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, the U.S. ride-hailing service said on Wednesday, gaining a crucial partner in its expansion into the Middle East. The investment from the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund…

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Wanted: Manufacturing whizzes to work on Tesla’s Model 3

By Alexandria Sage SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk gave a public shout-out to the sharpest minds in manufacturing this week, calling on them to come help Tesla Motors Inc build a million all-electric cars a year by 2020. Musk says he is “hell-bent” on making the Silicon Valley automotive upstart a manufacturing powerhouse, but his vision relies on finding veteran auto engineers to ramp up volume ten-fold in four …

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VW brand chief ‘confident’ of solving cost-cutting row with labor

Volkswagen's top brand executive is confident that management and labor will solve a dispute over cost-cutting at the core autos division and signaled readiness on Sunday to meet some of workers' demands. Volkswagen's (VW) powerful labor leaders earlier this …

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Mitsubishi Motors may skip earnings forecast due to data scandal: source

Mitsubishi Motors Corp is unlikely to issue an earnings forecast for the current financial year when it announces annual results this week, due to uncertainty about the financial impact of its misleading fuel economy data, a person close to the company told Reuters on Sunday. The Japanese automaker is under investigation by the transport ministry after saying last week that it overstated the fuel economy of four of its minivehicle…

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Fed seen holding rates this week with hike still on horizon

By Jonathan Spicer and Ann Saphir NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers are expected to hold interest rates steady when they meet this week, but may tweak their description of the economic outlook to reflect more benign conditions, leaving the path open for future rate rises. The Fed raised its policy interest rate last December for the first time in a decade when market volatility finally subsided in the wake of a scare over China's economy. Similarly early …

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Solar developer SunEdison in bankruptcy as aggressive growth plan unravels

SunEdison Inc, once the fastest-growing U.S. renewable energy company, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday after a short-lived but aggressive binge of debt-fueled acquisitions proved unsustainable. In its bankruptcy filing, the company said it had assets of $20.7 billion and liabilities of $16.1 billion

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VW forges U.S. deal arising from diesel emissions scandal

By Alexandria Sage and David Shepardson SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Volkswagen AG, driving to move beyond a scandal that has disrupted its global business and sullied its reputation, announced a sweeping…

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