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Casual sex app 'Bang With Friends' sued by social games maker Zynga

Bang With Friends CEO Colin Hodge claims the app now has more than 1.1 million users

More iWatch trademark filings in Mexico, Taiwan, Turkey

Global tour for trademarks indicates an Apple smartwatch is in the works

Currencies: Inquiry into 'rigging' claims

Britain's financial regulator is investigating claims that the $5 trillion (£3 trillion) foreign exchange market has been rigged.

Everton's Leighton Baines has been linked with a move to Manchester UnitedEverton's Leighton Baines

Leighton Baines and Wayne Rooney only English players in Europe's 'top 50 footballers'

New performance statistics make sorry reading for England

Ingvar Kamprad has stepped down from the board of Ikea

Page 3 Profile: Ingvar Kamprad, Ikea founder

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13. Michael Bloomberg: Net worth: $27 billion; Country: U.S; Source: Bloomberg LP

Letters to New York mayor Michael Bloomberg revealed to contain ricin

Two threatening letters sent to New York City's mayor and his group that advocates for gun control contained traces of the deadly poison ricin, police have said.

New Yorkers have embraced the Citi Bikes

Two days in: How are Mike’s Bikes doing in New York City?

New York City, home of the horn-leaning taxi driver and death-wish bicycle courier, has survived a second day on its version of London’s Boris Bikes. At the time of writing, there were no reported calamities involving the new swarm of 6,000 rental machines.

Google eyeing sat-nav startup Waze

Google is reportedly eyeing a bid of $1bn (£725m) or more for Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze, just as the internet giant faces a fresh probe into its dominance in America.

Ex-boss of IBM to review Bloomberg

Bloomberg has drafted in the help of a former head of IBM to undertake an internal review following damaging revelations that journalists with its news agency accessed private information about how users of its financial terminals used the commercial service.

Pressure intensifies on Bloomberg after new 'snooping' scandal twist

Bloomberg apologised after the financial news agency let its reporters access clients' information

Here is the news from Bloomberg: we made an inexcusable mistake

Bloomberg has had to grovel after the financial news agency let its reporters access clients' information. Gideon Spanier examines the repercussions

Red-faced Bloomberg admits ‘inexcusable’ privacy breach

Bloomberg was today forced to issue a grovelling apology to clients for its “inexcusable” decision to let its journalists use internal customer information in a scandal that has rocked Wall Street and the City.

The Mishneh Torah on display at Sotheby's in New York,

550-year-old Jewish holy book Mishneh Torah - which was expected to make $5m at auction - bought by museums in New York and Jerusalem

Collection of Jewish artefacts being sold off by hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt

George Soros pictured in 2012

Greatly exaggerated: financier George Soros lives to read his obituary - but it may left him feeling worse for wear

Reports of George Soros' death have been greatly exaggerated. But the financier is unlikely to be flattered after Reuters prematurely published an obituary which described him as "predatory".

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What if Edward Snowden had stayed to fight his corner?

Rupert Cornwell: What if Edward Snowden had stayed to fight his corner?

The CIA whistleblower struck a blow for us all, but his 1970s predecessor showed how to win
'A man walks into a bar': Comedian Seann Walsh on the dangers of mixing alcohol and stand-up

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Comedy and booze go together, says Walsh. The trouble is stopping at just the one. So when do the hangovers stop being funny?
From Edinburgh to Hollywood (via the Home Counties): 10 comedic talents blowing up big

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Hugh Montgomery profiles the faces to watch, from the sitcom star to the surrealist
'Hello. I have cancer': When comedian Tig Notaro discovered she had a tumour she decided the show must go on

Comedian Tig Notaro: 'Hello. I have cancer'

When Notaro discovered she had a tumour she decided the show must go on
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Our chef made his name cooking eggs, but he’s never stopped looking for new ways to serve them
The world wakes up to golf's female big hitters

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The Last Word: Luis Suarez and Gareth Bale's art of manipulation

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