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Amazon.com Expands Paid Leave to New Parents, Enhances Benefits to Attract and Retain Talent
Activision Blizzard to Acquire Maker of Candy Crush for $5.9 Billion, Combined Company Will be a Leader in Interactive Entertainment
Amazon.com Introduces Amazon Books, Opens its First Real Bookstore at University Village
Amazon.com, Inc. introduces Amazon Books, a brick and mortar bookstore, located at Seattle’s University Village in a note to its online customers. Amazon Books is the online retailer’s first real bookstore in its 20-years of selling books online and it first opened on Tuesday, November 3, 2015.
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George Soros's Firm Pulls Out Nearly $500 Million Investment With Bill Gross Due to Poor Returns
Soros Fund Management LLC, a firm run by George Soros, has pulled nearly $500 million investment from an account managed by Bill Gross at Janus Capital Group, Inc., people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal. Soros has pulled his entire investment from the account due to poor returns.
EPA Issues 2nd Notice of Violation to Volkswagen, Finds Cheating Software on Audi and Porsche as Well
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced in a press release that they are issuing a second notice of violation of the Clean Air Act to Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., Porsche AG and Porsche Cars North America. The EPA said that they have found that Volkswagen allegedly installed cheating software in certain Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche light duty diesel vehicles equipped with 3.0-liter engines for the model year 2014 through 2016.
Sprint to Slash Costs by $2.5 Billion, Will Do it Through Job Cuts and Other Cost Controls
Sprint Corp. is planning to cut as much as $2.5 billion in its fiscal 2016 expenses, according to a report from Reuters. The company said that the cut in expense will come from layoffs and a wide array of cost controls.
Commerzbank Chairman to Step Down on Oct 2016, Declined to Extend Contract
Commerzbank AG has announced in a press release that Martin Blessing, the chairman of the company’s Board of Managing Directors, will be stepping down from his post at the end of his contract on October 2016. He has declined the Supervisory Board’s offer to extend his contract beyond October 2016.
Airbnb Fighting Critical Battle in San Francisco, Spent more than $8 Million to Campaign Against Inititative
Airbnb Inc. is fighting a battle in its own backyard as it campaign against San Francisco’s Proposition F, an initiative that would limit the company’s short-term rentals, according to a report from Reuters. Airbnb has spent more than $8 million and hired a top political operative to campaign against the proposition.
GM Workers Voting on Labor Deal Between UAW and GM, Deal Gets Mixed Results
Workers at General Motors Company (GM) are voting to ratify a tentative labor agreement that the United Auto Workers union (UAW) reached with GM last week, according to a report from The Buffalo News. The tentative agreement has already gotten mixed results from GM workers, as workers from one plant rejected the deal and workers from another plant approved it.
Amazon to Shutdown Amazon Local Later This Year, Will Stop Selling Daily Deals
Amazon.com will be shutting down its Amazon Local website and Amazon Local app on December 18, 2015, according to Amazon Local’s help page. The online retailer will stop selling its daily deals on the said date.
HP to Split into Two Public Companies, As its CEO Seeks to Reinvent the Company
Hewlett-Packard Company has announced in a press release that it plans to separate the company into two new publicly traded Fortune 50 companies. The split is part of Meg Whiteman’s, the president, chairman and CEO of HP, plan to reinvent the company.
Peet's Coffee to Acquire a Majority Stake in Intelligentsia Coffee, Expands their Offering of Super-Premium Coffee
Peet’s Coffee & Tea has announced in a press release that they are acquiring a majority stake in Intelligentsia Coffee. The acquisition gives Peet’s Coffee access to Intelligentsia’s third wave coffee movement and expand its offering of super-premium coffee.
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