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December 15, 2016

Trump sits down with tech execs, including critics
New York (AFP) Dec 15, 2016
Donald Trump med Wednesday with some of America's most powerful tech executives in a bid to mend fences with a largely pro-Hillary Clinton industry and promote job creation and trade. The afternoon summit at Trump Tower in New York gathered some of the wealthiest and brightest brains in the tech industry around the same table as the incoming billionaire Republican president after a bruising election campaign that revealed a bitterly divided country. Five weeks before the 70-year-old property tyc ... read more

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Electric vehicle market footprint growing

Juno Mission Prepares for December 11 Jupiter Flyby

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