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Delta turns to apartment-sharing service Airbnb for more business

(Reuters) – Delta Air Lines Inc on Wednesday announced a marketing agreement with Airbnb, becoming one of the largest established companies in the travel industry to embrace the 8-year-old apartment-sharing service. Delta, the world's No. 2 airline by passenger traffic, said customers can earn award miles toward free flights when booking stays with Airbnb. This follows similar promotions from Virgin America Inc …

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U.S. sues DirecTV for illegal information trading during Dodgers talks

The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against DirecTV, alleging the company acted as a ringleader to unlawfully swap information with rival pay-TV companies during negotiations over whether to show Dodgers baseball games in the Los Angeles area. The department said DirecTV, now owned by AT&T , swapped information with Cox Communications, Charter Communications and AT&T, to win bargaining leverage against Time Warner Cable, which distributes a channel showing Dodgers games in Los Angeles.

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Exclusive: Landry’s and Jefferies CEOs to launch acquisition company – sources

The SPAC will be called Landcadia, a combination of the names Landry's and Leucadia, and plans to raise as much as $300 million in an initial public offering (IPO), the people said. SPACs, also known as blank-check acquisition companies, have no assets but use IPO proceeds, together with bank financing, to buy other companies and boost their value through operational improvements.

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Mitsubishi Motors used non-compliant data far longer than disclosed: source

By Naomi Tajitsu TOKYO (Reuters) – Mitsubishi Motors Corp used fuel economy testing methods that were not compliant with Japanese regulations since 1991 – much longer than previously known, a source briefed on the matter said. Japan's sixth-largest automaker has lost half of its market value – some $3.9 billion – since it admitted…

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U.S. approves Charter’s Time Warner Cable buy with conditions

The U.S. Justice Department on Monday gave antitrust approval to Charter Communications Inc's proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable Inc and Bright House networks, which would create the second-largest U.S. broadband provider and third-largest video provider. The Justice Department's approval carried conditions designed to protect competition, coming at a time when the pay television industry faces stagnation due to new competition from over…

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