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Robotic iPod Vending Machines Hit Airports

Traveling home for the holidays? Up your in-flight entertainment ante by picking up the new Apple iPod at your local Zoom Systems airport vending machine. Zoom Systems, a major player in the automated retail market, aims to pioneer the retail revolution with plans to deploy a network of thousands of …

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UBS May Take $500M Stake in Bank of China

ZURICH – UBS (search) is considering buying a $500 million stake in Bank of China (search) in a deal that would cement the position of its investment bank in China’s fast growing economy. The world’s seventh-largest bank, which helped BOC list its Hong Kong arm in 2001, said on Thursday …

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Yum Brands to Invest $100M in Russian Chicken Chain

MOSCOW – Yum Brands Inc. (YUM), parent of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell fast-food chains, and Russia’s Rostik’s said on Friday they were teaming up to invest about $100 million in a joint venture. Rostik’s (search), whose red and yellow signs of a chicken brandishing a knife and fork …

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