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Google rolls out its response to the European privacy ruling.

Manufacturing in the U.S. is starting to make a comeback, and is poised for even bigger gains in the years ahead. Driven partly by more competitive labor and energy costs and companies’ desire to produce goods closer to their customers, the number of factory jobs has started to rise after plunging for decades, edging up by about 600,000 over the past four years to more than 12 million. Some U.S. companies are bringing jobs back home, and foreign businesses are setting up shop.

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Inside the world of Bitcoin lobbyists working to help Washington understand the mysterious world of cryptocurrency.

The U.S. has grown more attractive as a destination for foreign investment, while Russia and some other emerging markets have faded, according to a survey by A.T. Kearney, a Chicago-based management-consulting firm. The U.S. ranked first in the firm’s annual survey of senior executives, to be released Monday. China was second, followed by Canada, Britain and Brazil. Russia, which ranked 11th in the year-earlier survey, dropped out of the top 25.

The satellites will be used to extend Internet access to “unwired” regions of the globe, people familiar with the project said, with Google hoping to overcome the financial and technical problems that thwarted previous efforts.
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Activist investor Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square on Monday called for the removal of six Allergan directors from the company’s board.

Chinese manufacturing expands at fastest rate in five years.