US FTC files suit to block $1.37 billion acquisition of shaving company Harry’s by Edgewell (owner of Schick) business Article 490 words 7 votes
Norwegian company sues state over risky spy recruitment in Russia – intelligence agencies' clumsy approach to recruiting informants had caused the company financial loss business Link 6 votes
How stock buybacks made US CEOs and shareholders really rich business Video 10:08, published Oct 11 2019 10 votes
For years, Microsoft has moved billions in profits to Puerto Rico to avoid taxes. When the IRS pushed it to pay, Microsoft aggressively fought back in court, lobbied Congress and changed the law. business Article 7164 words 21 votes
Luanda Leaks: How Africa’s richest woman exploited family ties, shell companies and inside deals to build an empire business Article 8591 words 8 votes
Finland's financial watchdog probes Nokia's October share crash – CEO Rajeev Suri denies that the company tried to keep its 5G troubles secret business Article 226 words 4 votes
New York dangled extra incentives in initial bid to lure Amazon HQ2 business Article 92 words 6 votes
The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world – Mette Lykke, co-founder of fitness tracker Endomondo, and CEO of food waste app, Too Good To Go business Article 1171 words 4 votes
California's new employment law is starting to crush freelancers business Article 1592 words, published Dec 11 2019 5 votes
China has called off two business delegation visits to Sweden after Stockholm presented a rights prize to dissident Gui Minhai business Article 350 words 6 votes
Running the numbers to figure out Amazon's market share: it has about 35% of US ecommerce, but closer to 6% of addressable retail overall business Article 944 words, published Nov 22 2019 5 votes
Examination of US Fortune 500 companies' 2018 filings shows that many paid a low effective federal tax rate in 2018, including ninety-one that paid no federal taxes at all business Article 14 244 words 9 votes
Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths business Article 854 words 7 votes
Bloomberg just bought CityLab—and will put half its staff out of a job business Article 1203 words 13 votes
SoftBank is selling its stake in dog-walking startup Wag back to the company, as Wag cuts 80% of staff business Article 9 votes
Sweden's telecoms giant Ericsson has agreed to pay more than $1bn to resolve allegations of bribery, the US Department of Justice has announced business Article 317 words 4 votes
IKEA's profits have fallen nearly 10% as the world's largest furniture retailer stepped up its spending on renewable energy and its growing online operation business Article 491 words 14 votes
Pre-Thanksgiving Merger Monday sees over $60 billion in announced deals business Article 257 words 7 votes
The flight that sent Boeing off course: A company once driven by engineers became driven by finance business Article 1671 words 6 votes
Hewlett-Packard board unanimously rejects $33 billion takeover offer from Xerox business Article 57 words 11 votes
Iceland's biggest fisheries company Samherji stands accused of bribing Namibian politicians business Link 4 votes
SoftBank poured $100 billion into start-ups that use armies of contractors, upending the lives of drivers, hotel operators and real estate agents around the world business Article 3071 words 8 votes
'They're madly checking their payrolls': The ugly truth of Australia's underpayment epidemic business Article 1524 words 8 votes
H&M is the latest fashion brand to test out the concept of clothing rental business Article 315 words 5 votes
Riding the unicorn—Peloton accidentally built a fitness cult. A business is a little more complicated. business Article 3227 words, published Oct 17 2019 8 votes
SoftBank to take control of WeWork at a pre-funding valuation of $7.5B - $8B, according to sources business Article 11 votes
The not-com bubble is popping—The unicorn massacre unfolding today is exactly the opposite of what happened in 2000 business Article 514 words 22 votes
The merger between T-Mobile and Sprint could be good for US businesses, despite opposition from state attorneys general and consumer advocacy groups business Article 1170 words 5 votes
No one expected The Athletic could get people to pay for sports news. Now it has 600,000 subscribers business Article 649 words 8 votes
Domino's Pizza will pull out of three Nordic countries and Switzerland after sustaining significant losses business Article 522 words 10 votes