Business
Anything to do with Business
Jany
@Jany -
over 5 years ago
Country House wins Kentucky Derby after favorite disqualified
Jockey Flavien Prat, center, celebrates after learning his mount Country House was declared winner despite finishing in second place during the 145th running of The Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Saturday, May 4, 2019. Country House wo...continued
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Alexandro
@Alexandro -
over 5 years ago
Petrofac loses out on $10bn in contracts amid SFO probe
Petrofac loses out on $10bn in contracts amid SFO probeA Serious Fraud Office investigation into Petrofac has made the company lose out on $10bn (£7.8bn) of contracts, its chief financial officer said today. Alastair Cochran said that a guilty please from its former head ...continued
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Jeffrey
@Jeffrey -
over 5 years ago
US special representative to Iran says 'we are going to increase our sanctions'
U.S. special representative to Iran, Brian Hook, told CNBC on Saturday that the U.S. is going to increase sanctions on Iran. "We are going to increase our sanctions on Iran and continue our foreign policy," Hook told CNBC's Hadley Gamble in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.Hook said...continued
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Leda
@Leda -
12 months ago
Samsung might go out of business with Cyber Monday deals like this
We've seen a lot of great deals during Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend this year, but few are as ridiculously cheap as Samsung's offerings for the Galaxy Watch 6 and Galaxy Buds 2 Pro.
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Alexie
@Alexie -
over 4 years ago
Salesforce Commerce Cloud releases four quick-start pandemic business packs
As we move deeper into the pandemic, it’s clear that the way we conduct business is changing, maybe forever. That means that business has to change too — and fast. But if you’ve never conducted business digitally or only nominally, how do you suddenly transform on the fly...continued
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Assunta
@Assunta -
11 months ago
The Obscure Google Deal That Defines America’s Broken Privacy Protections
Google’s doomed social network Buzz led US regulators to force Google and Meta to monitor their own data use. Insiders say the results were mixed, as pressure mounts for a federal privacy law.
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Ryleigh
@Ryleigh -
almost 4 years ago
YouTube Suspends and Demonetizes Trump's Favorite News Network for One (1) Week
As Trump’s symbiotic relationship with Fox News has lost its shine, the President has taken to directing his followers to One America News Network, a low-rent cable news upstart with non-existent editorial standards. But no one gets a free ride on the Trump g…
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Delia
@Delia -
about 3 years ago
Index Ventures launches web-app to help founders calculate employee stock options
The ability to offer stock options is utterly essential to startups. They convince talented people to join when the startup is unlikely to be capable of matching the high salaries that larger, established tech firms can offer. However, it’s a complex business…
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Raoul
@Raoul -
about 2 years ago
Gatwick scraps capacity restraints amid return to ‘business as usual’
Airport says it will not extend restraints beyond end of month, as it reveals first-half profit of £50.6mGatwick airport has said it is back to “business as usual” and will not need to extend its capacity restraints beyond the end of the month.The company sai…
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Delia
@Delia -
over 3 years ago
Daily Crunch: PayPal acquires Curv
PayPal acquires a cryptocurrency startup, Apple discontinues the iMac Pro and McAfee sells its enterprise business. This is your Daily Crunch for March 8, 2021. The big story: PayPal acquires Curv This deal will grow PayPal’s cryptocurrency team by bringing o…
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Myles
@Myles -
almost 4 years ago
As it hits $100 million run rate, The Pill Club adds former Uber exec Liz Meyerdirk as CEO
Liz Meyerdirk made a name for herself at Uber as the Senior Director & Global Head of Business Development for the company’s Uber Eats business and she’s now turning her attention to women’s health as the new chief executive of The Pill Club. The move comes a…
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George
@George -
over 5 years ago
WATCH: Samsung's lightest and slimmest tablet is now available in SA
WATCH: Samsung's lightest and slimmest tablet is now available in SADURBAN - The Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e is the lightest and slimmest in its class that packs smart features that deliver all the essentials of a tablet. The new tablet has incredible screen and impressive sou...continued
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Elaina
@Elaina -
over 3 years ago
Margaret Rossi, Gift Shop Matriarch in Little Italy, Dies at 72
Despite rising rents and the pandemic, “In her heart she wanted to keep it going,” her husband said of their business. She died of complications of Covid-19.
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Webster
@Webster -
over 5 years ago
Tesla's chart looks like Netflix did a decade ago—and it could see a similarly huge recovery
They say history may not exactly repeat, but it does often rhyme.That's the basic framework for a new theory from Eddie Yoon, founder of think tank EddieWouldGrow, who says that Tesla's stock in 2019 looks very similar to Netflix's stock performance in 2011.Back then, sh...continued
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Myles
@Myles -
over 3 years ago
Atlassian peps up Confluence with new graphical design features
Confluence, Atlassian’s wiki-like collaborative workspace, has been around for over 15 years and is often a core knowledge-sharing tool for the companies that implement it. But for the most part, Confluence is a business tool and looks like it, with walls of …
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George
@George -
about 5 years ago
SoftBank and Line Corp. Seek to Create a Japanese Internet Giant
SoftBank and Line Corp. Seek to Create a Japanese Internet GiantTOKYO — Two weeks ago, SoftBank Group of Japan announced it had lost billions on soured investments in some of the world’s biggest tech start-ups. On Monday, it said it was ready to roll the dice again.The co...continued
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Felicita
@Felicita -
over 5 years ago
'Sonic the Hedgehog' director promises Sonic redesign after fan backlash, but changes could be...
Paramount PicturesJust days after releasing the first official trailer for "Sonic the Hedgehog," the film's director took to social media to try and assuage disgruntled fans.The less than three minute trailer, which debuted on Tuesday, was widely criticized on Twitter, R...continued
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Jarod
@Jarod -
over 5 years ago
Oklahoma prosecutors blast J&J in first day of landmark opioid trial. Say drugmaker ran...
OxyContin 80 mg pills. Liz O. Baylen | Getty ImagesOklahoma state prosecutors blasted Johnson & Johnson and other opioid manufacturers in the first day of a landmark opioid trial Tuesday, saying they ran a "deceitful, multibillion-dollar brainwashing campaign" that l...continued
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Oren
@Oren -
4 months ago
Asia's second-richest man finally has a plan to hand over his company — but it's going to take a ...
Gautam Adani plans to retire at 70, in a transition that a family business professor said avoids "King Charles Syndrome."
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Felicita
@Felicita -
almost 4 years ago
Dear Sophie: What are Biden’s immigration changes?
What is your sense as to how the new administration will change business, corporate and startup founder immigration to the U.S.?
3 minutes read
Ismael
@Ismael -
7 months ago
The 2024 Business Card Challenge Starts Now
If you want to make circuits for a living, what better way to impress a future employer than to hand them a piece of your work to take home? But even if you’re just hacking for fun, you can still t…
3 minutes read
Monserrat
@Monserrat -
over 5 years ago
‘Militia threat’ shuts down Oregon statehouse
‘Militia threat’ shuts down Oregon statehouseSALEM -- A “possible militia threat” is shutting down the Oregon statehouse amid an ongoing walkout by Republican lawmakers who are blocking a vote on landmark climate change legislation with their absence.A spokeswoman for the...continued
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Rahsaan
@Rahsaan -
3 months ago
Boeing and Airbus go head-to-head at a giant industry airshow every 2 years. This time, neither won.
Airbus won more orders than a subdued Boeing, but supply-chain issues took center stage as Farnborough saw reduced airline business.
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Felicita
@Felicita -
over 4 years ago
Now any US business can buy Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot for $74,500
It took Boston Dynamics a quarter of a century to release its first commercial product, so one can forgive the company for taking a few extra months to make that product more widely available. Nine months after making Spot available in limited quantities under its Early A...continued
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Mariano
@Mariano -
over 4 years ago
Facebook and Instagram rolls out Shops, turning business profiles into storefronts
Starting today, you’ll be able to browse and buy products directly from a business’ Facebook Page or Instagram profile.Both Facebook and Instagram already supported a degree of e-commerce — for example, Facebook has its Marketplace and will likely make a bigger push throu...continued
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