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Automated machines that turn traditional money into virtual currency are cropping up, which supporters say could help the machines become as widespread as traditional bank A.T.M.s.
Mr. Montebourg, who is expected leave French government, represents a leftist strand of Socialism that remains politically popular.
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s summer reading list on the meanderings of business, finance and technology.
After years of cost-cutting, Burger King is ready to spend more than $8 billion on the Canadian chain of coffee-and-doughnut shops.
Deadlocked votes by the Federal Election Commission have created a rapidly expanding universe of unofficial law, particularly on financial disclosure and investigations.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 20, 2014, covering August 26, 2014.
Soundtrack
Various Artists
Godsmack
Spoon
5 Seconds of Summer
2014Christian Bourquin, French lawyer and politician (born 1954)[†]
Christian Bourquin was a French politician, a member of the Socialist Party. He was the president of the Regional Council of Languedoc-Roussillon from 2010 to his death in August 2014.
2014Peter Bacon Hales, American historian, photographer, and author (born 1950)[†]
Peter Bacon Hales was an American historian, photographer, author and musician specializing in American spaces and landscapes, the history of photography and contemporary art.
2014Caroline Kellett, English journalist (born 1960)[†]
Caroline Kellett, usually known just as Kellett, was a British journalist who was fashion editor of Tatler and held a number of other positions in British fashion journalism.
2014Chūsei Sone, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1937)[†]
Chūsei Sone was a Japanese film director known for his stylish and popular Roman Porno films for Nikkatsu, particularly the first two installments of the Angel Guts series. Despite a somewhat uneven career, many mainstream critics consider Sone the best of Nikkatsu's Roman Porno directors.
2014The Jay Report into the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal is published.[†]
From the late 1980s until 2013, group-based child sexual exploitation affected an estimated 1,400 girls, commonly from care home backgrounds, in the town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. Between 1997 and 2013, girls were abused by grooming gangs of predominantly British-Pakistani men. Researcher Angie Heal, who was hired by local officials and warned them about child exploitation occurring between 2002 and 2007, has since described it as the "biggest child protection scandal in UK history".
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]