Business Stories from May 7, 2016 (Change date)
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Gucci quits US anti-counterfeiting group after Alibaba joinsMay 07, 2016 5:01 am - SHANGHAI (AP) - Gucci America has quit the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition, the second defection since the Washington, D.C.-based group allowed Chinese e-com...
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Likely impact of Trump proposal for US debt: soaring ratesMay 07, 2016 9:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - In the event that the U.S. economy crashed, Donald Trump has floated a recovery plan based on his own experience with corporate bankruptcy: Pay America...
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Review: Shelf is a rather empty appMay 08, 2016 7:10 am - Editor's note: Jeffrey P. Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon, owns The Washington Post. It's intended for notes. It's better for shopping. Shelf is a new note-ta...
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Why a big clothing retailer is trying an Amazon Prime-like subscriptionMay 08, 2016 7:10 am - Editor's note: Jeffrey P. Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon, owns The Washington Post. In April, Lands' End announced it was re-launching Canvas, a collection o...
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Is it better to meet at Tinder than on Tinder?May 08, 2016 7:10 am - WASHINGTON - There's something about Tinder that feels very high school: The dating app is built on immediate hot-or-not judgments. If you have a mutual friend or two, i...
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Is @ProfJeffJarvis Twitter's best parody or its least repentant troll? Possibly a bit of both.May 08, 2016 7:10 am - For more than four years, the much-beloved Twitter account @ProfJeffJarvis has skewered and satirized the "thinkfluencers" of the Web. But in the next few days, the hand...
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5G networks will do much more than stream better cat videosMay 08, 2016 7:10 am - Every few years, mobile carriers promise to turbocharge smartphones with new "G" technology. Most recently, 4G began replacing 3G, and people from Trenton to Tacoma cele...
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Amazon, web giants shift to reporting real cost of equity payMay 08, 2016 7:10 am - For more than a decade, technology companies doled out heaps of stock to recruit top talent - then pretended this wasn't a normal part of doing business by reporting pro...
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Google and Chrysler are teaming up to make a self-driving minivanMay 08, 2016 7:10 am - Google will work directly with a major automaker for the first time as it announced plans to bring its self-driving technology to about 100 Chrysler minivans. The tech c...
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Inside Democrat Facebook's vicious civil warMay 09, 2016 12:52 pm - Members of Bernie Sanders' Facebook army have learned to be cautious. Spies hide around every corner; infiltrators lurk behind even the friendliest friend requests. Acco...