9 minutes ago | Fortune

Olaf Carlson-Wee appears to have it all. He has a comfortable fortune, thanks to a payout from his cryptocurrency firm Polychain Capital that netted him $60 million. He also...
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From an unexplored desert to a near $2 trillion IPO: The 86-year history of Saudi Aramco in pictures

47 minutes ago | Business Insider

Since its earliest years in the 1930s, Saudi Aramco has gone from a speculative attempt to find oil to the most powerful company in the global oil industry. The company has its...
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Fashion Is The Next Battleground For Payment Companies

2 hours ago | Forbes

The payments industry is the center of a multi-billion dollar war. In this competitive space payment companies are bound to reinvent themselves in order to survive in the...
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Oil prices fall as U.S. crude stocks jump

2 hours ago | Reuters

Oil prices fell on Wednesday after industry data showed an unexpected build in U.S. crude inventories and as investors waited for news on whether a fresh round of U.S. tariffs...
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This Is What Racism Looks Like in the Banking Industry

3 hours ago | NY Times

A JPMorgan employee and a customer secretly recorded their conversations with bank employees.
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Self-driving truck completes cross-country butter haul

9 hours ago | NY Daily News

Breaker, breaker, the big rig freight industry is a little closer to saying 10-4 to driver-less trucks after an autonomous truck completed a cross-country run to deliver a...
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Retailers are paying a premium for you to use your Apple Card

10 hours ago | iMore

Every time you swipe an Apple Card a merchant pays high fees. What you need to know Apple Card has highlighted another issue with the credit card industry: interchange...
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Troy residents want Rensselaer County executive to sign off on truck bypass

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TROY - Tired of tractor-trailer trucks shaking their homes' foundations and speeding through their narrow streets, South Troy residents are launching a letter-writing campaign...
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Testing Tech in Public? San Francisco Says Get a Permit First

11 hours ago | Time

Tired of San Francisco streets being used as a testing ground for the latest delivery technology and transportation apps, city leaders are now requiring businesses to get...
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Missouri teacher on leave after asking kids to 'set your price for a slave'

11 hours ago | NBC News

"You begin to get involved in the slave trade industry... your product to trade is slaves," the St. Louis grade school assignment stated.
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Yankees sign free agent Gerrit Cole to nine-year deal, multiple reports say

New York gets the staff ace it craved. Read more ...

Philip McKeon, former child actor, has died at 55

Philip McKeon, the former child actor best known for his role on the CBS sitcom “Alice,” died Tuesday, a family spokesman said. He was 55. McKeon died in Texas after a long... Read more ...

Federal judge blocks use of billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to build...

A federal judge has ruled the Trump administration cannot use military construction funds to build additional barriers on the southern border. Read more ...

Pigeons in tiny cowboy hats are a mystery in Las Vegas

Las Vegas residents spotted two of the birds around town in tiny cowboy hats this week. No one seems to know how the birds got the hats, but it worries a local bird rescue group. Read more ...

US pauses training of hundreds of Saudi military personnel after deadly...

The pause comes as the U.S. military reviews of how the Pentagon screens foreign military students. Read more ...

Saudi Aramco shares rally 10% on stock market debut for world's biggest company

Shares of the Saudi state-owned oil company hit their daily limit on Wednesday, surging above their initial public offering price to make Aramco the largest listed company in... Read more ...

Bill Cosby loses appeal of his conviction in sexual assault case

Bill Cosby lost his bid to overturn his sexual assault conviction Tuesday, as an appeals court upheld the verdict in the first celebrity trial of the MeToo era. Read more ...

Saudi Aramco shares are spiking after hitting the market in the world's...

Shares in Aramco, the Saudi-owned oil giant, spiked 10% Wednesday when they hit the market in the world's biggest-ever IPO. The spike came as shares began trading on Riyadh's... Read more ...

Dream House of the Week: Matthew Perry's Los Angeles penthouse

Could this home *be* any more luxurious? Read more ...

Russia, Turkey & Iran ‘concerned about increased terrorist presence' in...

Russia, Turkey, and Iran are concerned about the increased presence of terrorist groups in Syria's Idlib province, the three states said in a joint statement after talks in... Read more ...