Sports Business Journal has named the NBA’s Golden State Warriors “Franchise of the Decade.”
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Twenty-five years after the debut of her holiday staple All I Want for Christmas Is You, Mariah Carey finally claimed the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart; the song previously reached a peak position of No. 3 in 2018.
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When Steve and Dave Jolliffe first approached Bain & Company partner, Richard Grogan, about bringing a UK-born golf concept to the US, they were told to “forget it.”
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This week Plus.ai completed the first coast-to-coast commercial freight trip made by a self-driving truck, according to the company’s press release. Plus.ai announced on Tuesday that its truck traveled from Tulare, California, to Quakertown carrying over 40,000 pounds of Land O’Lakes butter.
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For a brief time yesterday, the world was home to a company worth $2 trillion. Saudi Aramco shares gained over 4.5% on the company’s second day of trading, briefly topping the mark then falling to close at a market cap of $1.96 trillion.
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This week Nestlé agreed to sell its U.S. ice cream business for $4 billion to Froneri, a joint venture Nestlé formed in 2016 with private equity firm PAI Partners.
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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill making it harder for the calls to get through to you. The Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence, or TRACED Act, would push carriers to implement a caller authentication system and require companies to block the calls for free.
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Google’s parent company, Alphabet, announced Tuesday that Sundar Pichai will take over as CEO of Alphabet in addition to his current role as head of the core Google unit.
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We're here because back in the day Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates made an Austin Powers parody video. And while Internet Explorer was a pretty good move, this is what the internet was made for.
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Silver Lake agreed to invest $500 million for just over a 10% stake in City Football Group, owner of reigning English Premier League champs Manchester City and other soccer clubs, from Abu Dhabi United Group.
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The Information reported this week that DoorDash expects to lose $450 million this year on ~$1 billion in revenue. That's... not good.
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Inspiring examples of analytics built without code on Malartu
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Months ago Elon Musk tweeted that the new Tesla truck would be, "unlike anything you've ever seen before."
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This week it was announced that PayPal has agreed to buy Honey, an app and browser plug-in for e-commerce coupons, for around $4 billion in cash and stock.
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You know when you set a new password and the application requires you include some variation of: x characters, a special character, and an uppercase letter? That is totally useless, and the guy who invented that rule deeply regrets it.
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Reels launched this week to just Brazil, and Facebook execs are not exactly shy about the fact it's a clone of TikTok (nor should they be).
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JetPack, the YC-backed startup building the world's first flying motorcycle "The Speeder," raised $2 million this week.
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Disney looks to be putting together the case study for "sticking it to Silicon Valley disruptors" with the launch of their Disney+ streaming service.
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The Wall Street Journal's Rory Jones and Rolfe Winkler reported on Thursday that Travis Kalanick, former Uber founder/CEO, quietly raised $400 million from Saudi Arabia's sovereign-wealth fund in January in a deal that could value CloudKitchens, his delivery-only restaurant company, at $5 billion.
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