From the Wires

Bloomberg: Clean Line Energy to spend $9 billion to spread power from the Great Plains.

BBC: Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google, was awarded shares worth $199 million.

STAR TRIBUNE: Target took gender neutrality to next level with its new bedding line for kids.

NEW YORK TIMES: Microsoft researchers send data center prototype beneath the ocean floor to cut cooling costs.

THE GUARDIAN: The women’s website has come under fire for surveying its writers about race, sexual orientation, drug use and abortion.

OPB: The plan to provide renewable energy to Moroccans began with the opening of the Sahara Desert solar plant that spans across thousands of acres.

BLOOMBERG: Dispensary owners report that digestible products are at least half of sales.

CNBC: Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins spends $1.4 billion on software developers Jasper Technologies.

BLOOMBERG: Campaigners have spent about $98 million more on advertising this year than their 2012 predecessors.

NPR: Rand Paul abaondoned his presidential campaign following unfavorable Iowa caucus results. He told NPR he is refocusing on the Senate re-election.