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Forbes - 20 Aug 2020 15:21Coronavirus-hit Qantas posts £1bn annual loss
BBC - 20 Aug 2020 03:59
The Australian airline expects around 4,000 of its planned job cuts to be finalised by the end of September.
Salesforce will let its employees work from home until August 2021, with six extra weeks of time off for parents (CRM)
Business Insider - 20 Aug 2020 01:41
Salesforce Salesforce is giving all employees the option to work from home until at least July 31, 2021, extending its previous guideline allowing remote work until the end of 2020. Salesforce is slowly reopening its 160...
Park Ridge mansion on the shore of a private lake sells for $1.8 million
Chicago Tribune - 20 Aug 2020 17:19
A French country-style mansion located on the shore of Murphy Lake sold in mid-August. It's one of about 30 homes that surround the lake.
American Airlines says it will stop flying to 15 US cities in October leaving some without an airline - here's the full list
Business Insider - 20 Aug 2020 15:47
Thomas Pallini/Business Insider American Airlines is suspending service to 15 cities across the US on October 7 as federal assistance through the CARES Act expires. Secondary cities across the airline's route network fro...
Working From Home: A Survey of Our New Out of Office Lives
The New York Times - 20 Aug 2020 06:01
What does the future hold for offices and the workers who once inhabited them?
The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on a bill that would provide $25 billion to the cash-strapped Postal Service ahead of the election
Business Insider - 20 Aug 2020 03:51
Chandan Khanna/Getty Images The House will meet on Saturday to vote on a bill aimed at providing protections for the USPS amid controversial budget cuts. While the terms of the $25 billion bill are not finalized, it will...
Airbnb sets stage for blockbuster listing with confidential IPO filing
New York Post - 20 Aug 2020 02:06
Short-term home rental company Airbnb on Wednesday confidentially filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission, setting the stage for one of the marquee stock market debuts of the year...
Facebook Kicks Off 'Support Small Business' Campaign on TV, Digital
AdWeek - 20 Aug 2020 16:00
Facebook kicked off a new national television and digital campaign Thursday aimed at featuring small business owners, their tales about navigating the pandemic and how the social network's tools can help them stay the co...
How the Media Ecosystem Is Adjusting to a New Privacy Landscape
AdWeek - 20 Aug 2020 19:38
Key Insights: Big Tech has helped forge industry standards, but not without a struggle. Former outliers such as Google are beginning to yield to industry standards. Politicians around the world are under pressure to lean...
Florida Charges Guggenheim Insurance Chief for Role in Boat Crash
Wall Street Journal - 20 Aug 2020 19:20
Florida prosecutors charged Guggenheim Partners's top insurance executive with negligence and reckless driving stemming from his role in a late December boating collision near Fort Lauderdale.
From Goldman Sachs to Morgan Stanley, here's what bulge-bracket banks are paying their first-year IB analysts
Business Insider - 20 Aug 2020 16:34
Crystal Cox/Business Insider You can make bank in these investment banking jobs. Bulge-bracket banks like Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and UBS pay their first-year IB analysts $91,000 per year (not including bonuses) on a...
Iran unveils new ballistic missile named after the general killed in a US drone strike earlier this year
Business Insider - 20 Aug 2020 16:122 Simple Steps For Testing If Your First Customers Like Your Product
Forbes - 20 Aug 2020 02:39California is asking Trump administration for new $300-a-week jobless benefit
L.A. Times - 20 Aug 2020 02:27Kodak's $765 Million Moment: How It Happened and How It Went Wrong
Wall Street Journal - 20 Aug 2020 17:06Tencent Video battles iQiyi in China's streaming wars
The Economist - 20 Aug 2020 16:51
LAUNCHED IN 2010, iQiyi has grown used to the foreign press calling it "the Netflix of China". Not the worst nickname, given the videostreaming pioneer's success. But Gong Yu, iQiyi's founder and boss, insists that his f...
US ecommerce sales grew by nearly a third in Q2, but it wasn't enough to offset losses from brick-and-mortar store closures
Business Insider - 20 Aug 2020 16:31
US ecommerce sales grew by nearly a third in Q2, making up 16.1% of total retail sales. And its share will likely stay heightened as the pandemic accelerates consumers' shift to digital. Insider Intelligence analyzes thi...
Yearn Finance Token Jumps 270% in 5 Days - Defi Token YFI Worth More Than a Single Bitcoin
Bitcoin.com - 20 Aug 2020 16:26
Decentralized finance (defi) continues to make waves this week, as the Yearn Finance project token (YFI) jumped over 270% during the last five days. The digital token is worth more per coin than the price of bitcoin toda...
Alibaba's Online Orders Soar During Coronavirus, Fueling a Sales Recovery
Wall Street Journal - 20 Aug 2020 16:14Activision confirms Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War reveal coming August 26
Venture Beat - 20 Aug 2020 01:10
Activision released a video dubbed "Know Your History" that confirms that the revelation of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is coming on August 26.