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Highflying Cyber Firms Cut Staff After Raising Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
Companies that help businesses battle hackers and comply with privacy regulations now face a potentially more formidable adversary: market turmoil.…
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Fed officials in June resolute in tightening into ‘restrictive’ territory despite risk of slower growth
Federal Reserve officials were resolute about the need to continue to hike their benchmark policy interest rate despite seeing downside…
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Smaller Companies Are Urged to Adopt Multifactor Authentication
Too many small and medium-size businesses rely on usernames and passwords alone to secure their systems, leaving them vulnerable to…
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Exxon Sees Green Gold in Algae-Based Fuels. Skeptics See Greenwashing.
Some scientists regard Exxon Mobil Corp.’s long-running quest to turn algae into a transportation fuel as little more than a…
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The Facebook Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Says She Wants to Fix the Company, Not Harm It
Frances Haugen, a former product manager hired to help protect against election interference on Facebook, said she had grown frustrated…
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Apple Doesn’t Make Videogames. But It’s the Hottest Player in Gaming.
Apple Inc. AAPL 0.81% doesn’t make hot videogames such as “Fortnite,” or consoles such as the Xbox. But with little…
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Zoom Enters an Awkward Phase
The deterioration of Zoom’s market value since the deal announcement erased any premium for Five9’s investors. Photo: Jason Henry for…
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Amazon’s New Devices: the Astro Home Robot, a Smart Thermostat, a Wall-Mounted Echo Show and More
Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -2.64% streamed a media event Tuesday focused on new devices. As you might expect, it included updates…
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Spotify Kicks Off Campaign to Win More Advertisers
Spotify Technology SA began its first global brand campaign designed to court marketers as the audiostreaming giant tries to expand…
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Logistics Operators Raise Pay, Enlist Robots to Meet Holiday Demand
Warehouse operators are throwing every tool they can at increasingly urgent efforts to hire seasonal workers as they brace for…
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Oil jumps 3% in bid to snap 7-day losing streak as dollar retreats
Oil futures began the week with a bounce, rising Monday after the U.S. benchmark suffered its biggest weekly drop since…
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Digital Addictions Are Drowning Us in Dopamine
A patient of mine, a bright and thoughtful young man in his early 20s, came to see me for debilitating…
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Ex-Lanistar staff allege bullying, sexism, and a ‘loser’s table’ for missing targets
Staff at celebrity-promoted fintech startup Lanistar were routinely sexually harassed and bullied over the past year, according to the accounts…
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Can Robinhood thread the needle for a winning IPO?
Initial public offerings can be a little bit like politics: a decent outcome may be when everyone is only a…
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Security-Camera Tips to Keep Your Home Safe While You Are Away
I joined the summer travel surge last month. In the whirlwind of it all, I remembered to pack my bags,…
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Goldman Sachs names Kelleners as European M&A head
Goldman Sachs has promoted long-serving dealmaker Andre Kelleners to head of mergers and acquisitions for Europe, the Middle East and…
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Inside Lazard’s ‘commando’ dealmaker team and expansion plans: ‘We’re aggressively hiring’
William McRaven was the former head of US special operations who oversaw the raid that led to the death of…
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Barclays hikes analyst pay to $100,000 amid junior burnout crisis
Barclays has followed Wall Street rivals by hiking the base pay for entry-level bankers to $100,000, bringing it in line…
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Goldman Sachs to buy Lloyd’s Register assurance and cybersecurity arm
Goldman Sachs’ asset management arm is to buy the business assurance and cybersecurity unit of professional services firm Lloyd’s Register,…
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JPMorgan increases entry level salaries for junior bankers to $100,000
JPMorgan has joined rivals in hiking pay for junior bankers, with first-year analysts now offered starting salaries of $100,000. The…
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Credit Suisse enters standstill agreement with Gupta’s GFG Alliance
GFG Alliance said on 23 June it has penned a standstill agreement with Credit Suisse on the Australian unit that…
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Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey plan bitcoin chat at July event, and Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood thinks it’s ‘brilliant’
Call it the hallowed trinity of tech. Bitcoin bulls Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s CEO TWTR, -0.47% (and Square’s SQ, -1.72%, as…
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Ashurst elects London corporate partner Karen Davies as first female chair
Partners at law firm Ashurst have elected London corporate heavyweight Karen Davies as their first female chair. Davies, the firm’s UK…
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U.S. stock futures point higher as inflation worries fade
U.S. stock-index futures were on the rise Tuesday, finding support after remarks by Federal Reserve officials soothed fears that rising…
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Why companies like crypto platform Coinbase are issuing a torrent of convertible bonds
Companies issued a torrent of convertible bonds since the pandemic hit, even before Coinbase Global Inc. brought out its own…
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BlackRock at Odds With Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Over Disclosures
The world’s largest asset manager is in disagreement with the world’s most famous investor. BlackRock Inc. voted for two shareholder…
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Don’t bail on stocks now, says world’s top fund manager BlackRock
Another mega earnings day is already under way, with Microsoft and Alphabet coming later, while the Federal Reserve kicks off…
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Dutch insurer NN Group ‘reviewing options’ for fund management arm
NN Group, the Dutch insurer, has announced it is “reviewing strategic options” for its investment management business, paving the way…
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Disney fan complains that Walt Disney World is becoming too ‘woke’ — here’s what’s changed at the park and why
A longtime fan of Walt Disney World penned an op-ed blasting the company for making changes to popular attractions in…
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UBS starts new bonus for juniors as banks look to combat burnout
UBS has kick-started a new promotion bonus for its junior bankers, and shifted salary increases to the summer in the…
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India records more than 200,000 COVID cases for seventh straight day as hospitals run low on oxygen
The global tally of confirmed cases of the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19 climbed above 143 million on Wednesday, as India reported…
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Oprah’s Oatly aims for IPO
Oatly has formally filed paperwork Monday for an initial public offering in the US, nine months after private-equity giant Blackstone…
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A new law would require employees to save for retirement
Auto-enrollment may be just what Americans need to save more for retirement — but perhaps only if the government makes…
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U.S. COVID deaths top 500,000 as experts look to FDA meeting on J&J’s one-dose vaccine
The U.S. surpassed half a million deaths from the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19 on Monday, as experts braced for a Food…
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