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Nneka Ogwumike, in a plain dark warmup jacket, speaking mid-sentence at a press table against a dark backdrop

Nneka Ogwumike Won the Biggest Raise in American Sports, Then Announced She Is Leaving the Court

Two months ago the players of the WNBA re-elected Nneka Ogwumike, unopposed, to a…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 21

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Goodell Says NFL Teams Abroad Are Coming. He Carefully Did Not Say Whose Team Would Move.

Roger Goodell told a German broadcaster this week that he has no doubt the…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 19

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Phia Said It Learned About Cookie Stuffing in 24 Hours. Its Own Slack Goes Back Seven Months.

When Bloomberg asked Phoebe Gates’s shopping startup on July 7 why its browser extension…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 19

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Hello Kitty Meets Godzilla in a Happy Meal Built for Adult Collectors

McDonald’s begins handing out a Hello Kitty and Godzilla crossover Happy Meal on Tuesday,…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 18

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State Farm Is Sending Back $5 Billion It Collected When Auto Premiums Jumped 20 Percent

State Farm has begun issuing the largest dividend in its history, roughly $5 billion…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 18

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JPMorgan Closed Polymarket’s Accounts and Still Wants a Piece of the IPO

JPMorgan Chase decided in October that Polymarket was too risky to hold deposits for.…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 17

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Warner Bros. Has Four Months to Make ‘Barbie 2’ or Lose It

Warner Bros. has spent three years and more than six financial packages failing to…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 15

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Hollywood Got Its $4 Billion Summer and Three Movies Did Forty Percent of It

The domestic summer box office crossed $4 billion for only the second time since…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 14

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Who Is Rinat Akhmetov? A Look at His Business Career and Public Impact

Rinat Akhmetov is a Ukrainian businessman, founder and shareholder of SCM, an international investment company…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 12

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Taylor Farms Recalled 20 Products in 26 States, Three Weeks After the Last Jalapeño Illness

Taylor Fresh Foods pulled 20 products from seven national chains over salmonella-linked jalapeños, and…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 10

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The Unemployment Rate Fell to 4.1% Because People Stopped Looking

The economy shed 23,000 jobs in July and the unemployment rate went down anyway,…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 7

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Belt Conveyors Vs Chain Conveyors: Understanding Key Differences

Belt and chain conveyors move material in very different ways. A look at load…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 6

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New York Clawed Back $104 Million in Delivery Tips by Regulating the Checkout Screen

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A $500 Tax Dispute Just Cost Minocqua Brewing Its Permits, and That Is the Real Story

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A $5 Million Startup Takes Aim at China’s Rare Earth Monopoly

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Cracker Barrel Replaces Julie Masino With David Deno a Year After the Logo Revolt

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How Workplace Culture Shapes Employee Experience and Business Success

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Amazon Prime’s $2.5 Billion FTC Settlement Deadline Is Today: How to Claim Your Refund Before It Expires

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LeBron James Took the Minimum to Join the 76ers. That Tells You Who the New CBA Actually Serves

Paramount’s $110 Billion Warner Deal Now Runs Through an FCC With a Conflict Problem

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New 50% Tariffs on Canadian Hockey Sticks, Cheese, and Cars, and the USMCA May Be Dead

Artificial Intelligence

DeepSeek’s $74 Billion IPO Is China’s Bet That Cheap AI Beats Frontier AI

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Artificial Intelligence

Inside OpenAI’s Terrible Week: A Safety Chief Gone, Apple in Court, and Washington Offered 5%

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Twelve States Sue to Block the $110 Billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger

Corporate boardroom at dusk with city skyline through windows representing the Stripe PayPal acquisition negotiations

Stripe and Advent International Make a $53 Billion Play for PayPal

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Artificial Intelligence

Apple Sues OpenAI for Stealing Trade Secrets, Alleging a Systematic Campaign at Every Level

President Donald Trump stands in an Oval Office setting beside a desk piled with gold coins, a wall screen behind him showing a crypto price chart spiking green then crashing red

Crypto Windfall Tops $2 Billion for Trump While His Own Regulators Write the Rules

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Xbox Is About to Gut Five Studios and Cancel Marvel’s Blade in Its Biggest Layoff Ever

AI Boom Reshapes the Electronics Market, Benefiting Lenovo

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Mark Zuckerberg Pushes Meta Into Prediction Markets With New App ‘Arena’