Finance
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Lyft CEO on the time Bill Gates told him he was making ‘the stupidest decision I’ve ever heard anyone made’
Before David Risher was tasked with scripting a “comeback story” for ride-sharing company Lyft, he made a career move so…
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What oil CEOs really think about Trump’s management of the oil sector: ‘Those who can are running for the exits’
Oil companies may have President Donald Trump cheering them on from the bully pulpit. But in the oil patch, the…
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Amazon to invest over $1 billion in fulfillment and transportation workers to boost pay
Amazon says it’s investing more than a $1 billion to raise wages and lower the cost of health care plans…
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Google’s AI is the ‘worst’ for stealing content, says People CEO
When Google became the dominant search engine around 2004, not everyone was happy. Everyone from book publishers to music studios…
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Figma is getting crushed in its post-IPO earnings debut; CEO Dylan Field is focused on AI’s long term power to ‘raise the ceiling’
Shares of design software company Figma plunged 14% in extended trading, as investors took a dim view of Figma’s first…
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Trump fires CDC head after one month on the job. Her lawyers say she ‘refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives’
The director of the nation’s top public health agency has been fired after less than one month in the job,…
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Southeast Asia’s ‘incredibly dynamic’ Islamic finance market is drawing in non-Islamic players
Over 280 million Southeast Asians, about 40% of the region’s population, identify as Muslim. That’s spawned demand for goods and…
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Elon Musk broadens his long-running feud with OpenAI’s Sam Altman by bringing in a third party: Apple
Elon Musk’s long-standing battle with OpenAI has a new participant: Apple. On Tuesday, Apple found itself the latest target of…
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Trump hikes tariffs on India to 50%, scrambling the country’s plans to be an alternative to China
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to place an additional 25% tariff on India for its purchases of Russian oil, bringing the combined…
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Gilbert Arenas indictment over alleged illegal poker game names former NBA star as ‘Agent Zero,’ flags potential Israeli gangster
Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas was arrested Wednesday along with five other people, including a suspected member of an Israeli organized crime…
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