Finance
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Google Close to Its Biggest Acquisition Ever, Despite Antitrust Scrutiny
The search giant’s negotiations to buy Wiz, a cybersecurity start-up, for $23 billion, come as the Biden administration has taken…
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Google Readies $23 Billion Deal for Wiz, a Start-Up, Despite Antitrust Scrutiny
The deal to acquire the cybersecurity company would easily be Google’s most expensive acquisition.
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When That Job Promotion Is Really a ‘Glass Cliff’
The term, which traces to 2005, describes a phenomenon where companies appoint women to leadership roles in moments of crisis,…
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How Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Became Tech’s Steely Eyed A.I. Gambler
Earlier this year, Satya Nadella hammered out a deal that surprised everyone outside his inner circle at Microsoft. Mr. Nadella,…
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Electric Vehicles May Become Harder to Rent
Rental car firms are offering temporary deals on electric cars, which they are selling after they lost value more quickly…
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$95 Million
The amount unaccounted for after the failure of a company that operated banking software for online financial start-ups.
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Delta Changes Uniform Policy After Employees Seen With Palestinian Flag Pins
A social media post showing two flight attendants wearing the pins drew criticism and prompted Delta to say that only…
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Is There a Future in the Doomsday Economy?
With Fortitude Ranch, the entrepreneur Drew Miller is betting on franchised timeshares for people who are worried about the end…
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The $25 Trillion System of Retirement Savings Needs Fixing
Fifty years after Congress passed a landmark retirement law, 401(k) and I.R.A. accounts enrich mostly higher-income households. Here are five…
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What if the A.I. Boosters Are Wrong?
A skeptical paper by Daron Acemoglu, a labor economist at M.I.T., has triggered a heated debate over whether artificial intelligence…