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Versus: Readly vs Readbug vs Flipboard vs Apple News

When it comes to entertainment and information, we tend to like the all-you-can-eat model: whether it’s streaming music on Spotify or watching shows on Netflix, more and more of us expect to get everything for a flat fee. Could that work for other kinds of content too, such as magazines and newspapers? Readly and Readbug say yes, while Flipboard and Apple’s imminent News say “hmmm.” The four services are very

Greece considering capital controls, closing banks on Monday

ATHENS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Greece said it may impose capital controls and keep its banks shut on Monday after creditors refused to extend the country’s bailout and savers queued to withdraw cash, taking Athens’ standoff with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund to a dangerous new level. There is growing opposition in some European countries to extending the ECB’s funding line.

Volkswagen to launch budget car family in 2018: CEO in paper

Germany’s Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) plans to launch a family of low cost budget cars in China and possibly elsewhere starting in 2018, its chief executive said in a newspaper interview on Sunday. “We will bring a budget-car family to market in 2018, with an SUV, saloon and hatchback,” Martin Winterkorn told Bild am Sonntag newspaper. Europe’s largest automaker had for years been pondering a budget car but difficulties in hitting internal