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MasterCard Inc. reports 17 percent increase in first quarter profit

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MasterCard Inc. posted a better than expected 17% increase in first quarter profit, driven by lower operating expenses and higher purchase volumes. The company's first...

Barclays set aside extra £800 million to cover potential settlements

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Barclays set aside another £800 million to cover potential settlements for its alleged involvement in foreign exchange manipulation after posting a 9% increase in...
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Whitening Arctic may halt sea ice melt, but not climate change

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Artificially whitening the surface of the Arctic Ocean will reflect more of the Sun’s energy back into space and restore much of the sea...
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Lakes under Antarctica desert may support life, so maybe life on Mars

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Under the dry valleys in Antarctica there are several interconnected lakes and brine-saturated sediments that could sustain life, and if so, dramatically increase the...
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Meteorite hunt underway from giant fireball, could be worth a lot of money

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A giant fireball was seen flying over Britain and Ireland on Sunday evening. The meteor is believed to have crashed somewhere in Ireland or...
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Saturn moon Hyperion looks like a porous sea sponge in stunning image

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When unmanned spacecraft Cassini flew by Hyperion, one of Saturn’s outer moons, it took this stunning image of the potato-shaped celestial body that looks like a...
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Twitter shares plummet by over 18 percent after Q1 results

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Twitter shares plummeted by around 20 percent on Tuesday after poor first quarter results were leaked ahead of schedule. Revenue was shy of market estimates...
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GoPro Inc. buys French software maker Kolor

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GoPro Inc. posted quarterly revenue of $363.1 million, a 54 percent increase versus the same period last year. Analysts had expected revenue of $341 million, according to...
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Ford expects 2015 to be “a breakthrough year” for profits

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Despite lackluster net income in the first quarter, Ford expects performance to improve this year. The automotive giant expects full-year pretax profit of $8.5 billion...
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Ceres mysterious bright spot – NASA wants your opinion

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NASA is calling on members of the public to vote on what they think the mysterious bright spot is on the dwarf planet Ceres,...