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Estonia Adopts the Euro

Head uut aastat! That's how to wish a happy new year in Estonia, where citizens ring in a new currency along with a new decade. Today, the tiny country becomes No. 17 to join the euro zone -- and, more notably, the first former Soviet ...READ»

India's ¢u££€₦¢¥ Gets Its Own $¥mbol ₮oda¥

While the almighty dollar sign is universally known (and the oft counterfeited bills undergo frequent upgrades), India's currency, the rupee, has been strangely bereft of an official symbol to use when denoting it in text. Today it'll ...READ»

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iFive: Rdio, HP, BP, Neuro--that's the New Euro--and Microsoft

While you slept, the innovation news kept gushing. Here's what you've missed so far:1. "We did not have the tools you would want in your tool kit," said BP CEO Tony Hayward in an interview for the FT (did you know that BP's official ...READ»

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International Monetary Fund Extends $962 Billion Euro Bailot

European leaders negotiated into the early hours of Monday before reaching a deal in which governments that use the euro would join the EU and International Monetary Fund in putting up euro750 billion in loans available to prop up ...READ»

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Spend: 10 Years of the Euro

A look at the national pride engraved into the 1-euro coins of 15 nations of the European Union.READ»