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
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
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
America’s Orthodox Jews are selling a ton of the products you buy on Amazon business Article 3451 words 11 votes
SoftBank seeking to take control of WeWork through financing package business Article 288 words 5 votes
The 'glass floor' is keeping America's richest idiots at the top business Article 1258 words 10 votes
A native plant is exposing the clash between traditional knowledge and Western conventions business Article 2040 words 8 votes
Jeff Bezos’s master plan - What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us business Article 11 112 words, published Oct 8 2019 16 votes