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In a week when FedEx got boycotted by foes of the National Rifle Associatio­n, Delta got punished by Georgia fans of the NRA and President Trump had a “great” meeting with the NRA, this also happened:

Twitter finally gave mobile users an easy way to save tweets with bookmarks. The San Francisco company said in a blog post that users have an icon right next to the Like one that gives them the option to send the tweet as a private message or bookmark it. You can already save tweets by liking them, of course, but the bookmarks are private, just in case you don’t want all your followers to see what you’re saving.

Some 600 computers used to mine bitcoin and other virtual currencies were stolen in Iceland. More than 10 people have been arrested, but the computers — worth almost $2 million — have not been found.

How influentia­l is Barcelona soccer star Lionel Messi? El Prat airport scrapped its expansion plan because it would have added air traffic above his mansion in the coastal town of Castelldef­els, according to ESPN.

Blaze Pizza, a restaurant chain backed by basketball star LeBron James, is expanding outside North America. Blaze, founded in 2011, will open its first overseas shop this month in Kuwait, and is looking to expand to Mexico, Asia and Europe. Blaze has set a goal to reach 1,000 stores and go public as soon as 2022.

Things go better with Coke, except maybe if you’re Whole Foods. Yahoo reported that there’s an internal squabble as the healthy market’s new owner, Amazon, might try to add the not-exactly-healthy soft drinks to the store’s shelves.

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