Articles filed under Bloomberg
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Analysis: Wave of foreclosures may follow housing market boomNov 10, 2020 7:35 am - The housing market is booming. Is this another indication that the recovery from the Pandemic Recession is complete for the rich, while low-income households are left be...
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In a pandemic, every day is bring-your-child-to-work dayNov 09, 2020 8:16 am - Years before "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day" became a thing, my dad occasionally brought me to his office as the need arose. There was something a bit thrillin...
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Waymo seeks to calm doubts about driverless cars with data troveNov 09, 2020 5:40 am - Autonomous vehicle developers have so far operated without shared industry standards for safety and with minimal oversight from state and federal governments. Waymo, say...
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Analysis: Uber's ballot victory doesn't fix gig economy's big problemNov 09, 2020 8:16 am - Uber Technologies and Lyft won a big victory on a state ballot measure that could have threatened their businesses by changing their relationship with workers. But this ...
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Inside the chaotic unraveling of Jack Ma's $35 billion IPONov 09, 2020 5:40 am - The midlevel bureaucrats left China's richest man waiting as they prepared for a meeting that would send shock waves across the financial world. It was Monday morning in...
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Uber won its prized contractor status for drivers. Now what?Nov 09, 2020 5:40 am - In one fell swoop, Uber and Lyft on Tuesday fended off labor protections that were decades in the making, allowing the companies to keep compensating their drivers as in...
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U.S. service industries expand at slowest pace in five monthsNov 06, 2020 7:23 am - U.S. service industries expanded in October at the slowest pace in five months as orders and employment cooled, indicating more moderate growth in the biggest part of th...
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USPS says it can't comply with court-ordered sweep of mail-in ballotsNov 04, 2020 10:26 am - The U.S. Postal Service said it can't comply with a federal judge's order to conduct a sweep of its facilities in crucial swing states for undelivered mail-in ballots by...
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Analysis: When you can't work from Barcelona, Boulder might doNov 05, 2020 5:27 am - The rise of "digital nomads," knowledge workers able to do their jobs from a rotating assortment of exotic locales - the beaches of Phuket, the suburbs of Cape Town, the...
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Fall ad spending creeps back in spite of scary COVID conditionsNov 03, 2020 7:24 am - This fall, in the run-up to Halloween, Hershey, the giant American sweets maker, had different commercials ready to run depending on the severity of the pandemic. Earlie...