Articles filed under Bloomberg
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Employers find testing employees for COVID-19 more trouble than it's worthJul 12, 2020 6:00 am - From nursing homes in New York and a landfill in Utah to Disney World and the Las Vegas Strip, employers are wrestling with workplace safety in the age of COVID-19 and m...
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TikTok says a quarter of videos removed involve misbehaving kidsJul 11, 2020 6:15 am - Almost a quarter of the videos TikTok took down in 2019's second half involved inappropriate behavior by minors, from illegal drug use to sexual activity. The Chinese-ow...
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As businesses reopen, many Americans plan to spend lessJul 11, 2020 6:12 am - The novel coronavirus - which has infected almost three million people and killed more than 130,000 in the U.S. alone - has roiled the economy and brought many aspects o...
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Walgreens ends buybacks, cuts jobs as profit misses; shares fallJul 09, 2020 1:00 am - Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. plans to cut about 4,000 jobs in the U.K. following a sharp drop in its business there and suspend stock buybacks, as the coronavirus pande...
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Where the Class of 2020 is finding job opportunitiesJul 05, 2020 6:12 am - Some 2020 graduates are finding jobs, even in this economy. Luck plays a role, sure, but so does a willingness to compromise. Halle Steinberg said she wasn't surprised w...
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Jack Ma's new chieftain lays out plan to fend off TencentJul 04, 2020 6:00 am - Billionaire Jack Ma's newest chieftain is accelerating Alipay's evolution into an online mall for everything from loans and travel services to food delivery, in a bid to...
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Ex-cons confront labor market that's likely to leave them behindJun 28, 2020 6:25 am - Eric Hughie felt lucky to land a job making eyeglasses in January. Then his job vanished, along with 40 million others, as the coronavirus tore through America. But Hugh...
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Eerie calm settles on housing market, defying doomsayers for nowJun 28, 2020 6:10 am - The U.S. housing market, which seemed headed off a cliff in April, now looks like it's returning to some semblance of normal. The quiet may not last long. The initial ch...
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As they reach retirement age, wind farms become prime investmentsJun 28, 2020 6:00 am - One of the world's iconic energy technology sites is soon to become an energy technology artifact. The Mesa Wind project, built on federal land not far from Palm Springs...
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Pandemic internet aid is ending, but digital divide remainsJun 27, 2020 6:00 am - In March, Rakia Akter was confronted with a serious parenting problem. As the coronavirus pandemic grew worse, schools in Buffalo, New York, where she lives, were shutti...