Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it would commit $1 billion to boost housing construction in the San Francisco Bay Area, the latest in a series of commitments by tech companies to address an affordability crisis in the region. Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai …
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wells Fargo & Co was dismissed as a defendant in a lawsuit brought by the cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore, which accused large banks of conspiring to inflate interest rates for variable-rate demand obligations (VRDO), a type of …
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… decisive phase regarding Brexit,” Johannes Hahn, the EU commissioner in charge of the talks, said in a June 17 letter that was seen by Bloomberg.
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In the last week, two different people have captured video of Tesla vehicles traveling down a freeway with an apparently sleeping driver behind the wheel. Both incidents happened in California. Last week, local television stations in Los Angeles aired footage …
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Are Uber drivers small-business owners? Or are they exploited employees? That question matters to your small business because there’s a war going on over the question of “employee status.” Whether you’re a gig worker, service provider, consultant or one …
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