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Japan's biggest search engine and messaging app are set to merge under a deal agreed by their parent companies.

Yahoo Japan is the country's biggest search engine, and has e-commerce and online banking subsidiaries.

Line is the country's dominant messaging app, and is also popular in Southeast Asia and Taiwan.

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Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption In the UK there is one CCTV camera for every 11 people

It is all quiet on a mid-morning weekday at the CCTV monitoring centre of Southwark Council, in London, when I pay a visit.

Dozens of monitors display largely mundane activities - people cycling in a park, waiting for

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Jamie Heinemeier Hansson had a better credit score than her husband, tech entrepreneur David. They have equal shares in their property and file joint tax returns.

Yet David was given permission to borrow 20 times the amount on his Apple Card than his wife was granted.

The situation was far from unique. Even Apple's co-founder

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Global Shares expands reach with US and Japan offices
Global Shares, a developer of employee share plan management software, has opened two new offices in Japan and the US.
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Adrian Weckler: 'The great Irish live TV collapse paves way for streaming giants'
Who will win the upcoming TV streaming wars set to be unleashed in Irish households? Can Netflix hold its own against the Disney+ Death Star in the spring? What are the prospects for Apple's just-launched TV+? What are Sky and Virgin doing to repel the unprecedented assault?
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Broadcom pays $110m Irish tax bill as part of multi-billion-dollar Symantec deal
Broadcom, a Nasdaq-listed chipmaker, paid a $110m (€99.5m) tax bill to Revenue following its $10.7bn acquisition of security software developer NortonLifeLock's enterprise division, according to a company filing made in the US.
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