Affordable fashion brand Forever 21’s decision to file for bankruptcy and shutter hundreds of its stores has resurrected the notion that online retailing is killing old-fashioned brick-and-mortar retailing. Some are suggesting the strong growth of e-commerce …
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In the world of individual privacy and data security, this could be the ultimate irony. Facebook, the company that has taken more fire than any other for misusing, abusing and losing user data, has become the last line of defence in the fight against government …
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General Motors and the striking United Auto Workers hit an impasse in contract talks on Sunday over the question of moving production from Mexico to plants in the United States, two people close to the talks said. The union, which has been on strike since …
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Two years after ending a tumultuous run on the Uber board, Bill Gurley is now on a very different crusade. Ever since an appearance on CNBC last month in which he described the IPO process as a “bad joke” for Silicon Valley, the venture capitalist’s Twitter …
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Negotiations between the United Auto Workers and General Motors Co. “have taken a turn for the worse,” UAW Vice President Terry Dittes wrote in a letter Sunday morning to union local presidents and chairpersons,. The UAW “cannot be more disappointed” …
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