Tag: business
BeReal Basics: How to Use the ‘Unfiltered’ Social Media App
Post within the two-minute window to share off-the-cuff photos with your friends—and the world. Source
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Hitting the Books: Raytheon, Yahoo Finance and the world’s first ‘cybersmear’ lawsuit
A company's public image is arguably even more important to its bottom line than the product they produce and very much not something to be trifled with. Would Disney be the entertainment behemoth it is today if not for its family-friendly facade, would Google have garnered so much goodwill if…
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Hitting the Books: Raytheon, Yahoo Finance and the rise of the ‘cybersmear’ lawsuit
A company's public image is arguably even more important to its bottom line than the product they produce and very much not something to be trifled with. Would Disney be the entertainment behemoth it is today if not for its family-friendly facade, would Google have garnered so much goodwill if…
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Hitting the Books: How Ronald Reagan torpedoed sensible drug patenting
Americans pay two and a half times more for their prescription drugs than residents of any other nation on Earth. Though generic versions of popular compounds accounted for 84 percent of America's annual sales volume in 2021, they only generated 12 percent of the actual dollars spent. The rest of…
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Hitting the Books: What autonomous vehicles mean for tomorrow’s workforce
In the face of daily pandemic-induced upheavals, the notion of "business as usual" can often seem a quaint and distant notion to today's workforce. But even before we all got stuck in never-ending Zoom meetings, the logistics and transportation sectors (like much of America's economy) were already subtly shifting in…
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Microsoft-Activision deal gives merger speculators a new darling
Microsoft logo is seen on a smartphone placed on displayed Activision Blizzard logo in this illustration taken January 18, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Hedge funds, which make profits by speculating on precarious takeovers, got a treat this week when Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) agreed to buy “call of duty” maker Activision Blizzard…
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