Finance
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419Slack plunges 11% after Microsoft’s rival messaging platform extends its lead with 20 million daily active users
Reuters Microsoft reported Tuesday that Teams, a messaging competitor to Slack, has 20 million daily active users. Slack plunged as much as...
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Women worried about money are more likely than men to put off buying a home and quitting a job, and it highlights the effects of the gender pay gap
A new survey by Insider and Morning Consult asked men and women what life events they’ve delayed because of money concerns. Women...
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Alibaba will reportedly end its $13 billion share sale early after attracting more investor demand than it could meet
Alibaba’s $13 billion Hong Kong share sale will reportedly be closed early amid strong demand from investors. The company plans to stop...
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409SoftBank is reportedly close to taking over a fancy London members’ club that WeWork also wanted to rent
Youtube / Bloomberg TV Markets and Finance SoftBank is reportedly close to securing the keys to a private members’ club in London...
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Small business lender BlueVine just nabbed $102.5 million in funding on the heels of its banking launch
Small business lender BlueVine just raised $102.5 million in equity funding led by ION Crossover Partners, with participation from Citi Ventures, Silicon...
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WeWork layoffs began on Monday, sources say, with one person calling it a ‘small mercy’
WeWork’s layoffs officially began on Monday, sources say, and hit the corporate technology, HR and security departments. Employees are being offered four...
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420Jack Ma, Jedi, and surfing: These are the 10 juiciest details from Fast Company’s deep dive into WeWork
Jackal Pan/Getty Images; Jacqueline Larma/AP Images; Samantha Lee/Business Insider Fast Company published a deep dive into the relationship between WeWork cofounder and...
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467FedEx CEO challenges New York Times publisher to public debate on taxes
Reuters FedEx CEO Frederick W. Smith pushed back against a New York Times story published on Sunday about the company’s tax bill,...
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419‘Masa is a Jedi’ — Adam Neumann reportedly compared WeWork to Amazon on the advice of SoftBank’s Son
YouTube/Star Wars Clips Adam Neumann reportedly compared WeWork to Amazon to make its astronomical valuation look cheap by comparison. WeWork’s cofounder and...
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431Deutsche Bank says robots are already replacing workers as it ramps up a plan to axe 18,000 jobs
Deutsche Bank is using robots to replace the 18,000 staff it cut earlier this year. Financial News spoke to the bank’s head...