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Microsoft Bundling Practices Focus of Federal Antitrust Probe

The Federal Trade Commission has demanded information from Microsoft and interviewed competitors as the agency’s antitrust investigation heats up. …
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By Scott Galloway, No Mercy/No Malice, @profgalloway Audio Recording by George Hahn, Illustration and Charts by Shira Seri Levi The hottest product in tech is Bluesky,...

Ranked: The World’s 10 Largest Companies by Revenue

Collectively, the world’s 10 largest companies by revenue generate roughly $4.6 trillion in annual sales, exceeding the GDP of countries like Japan …

Sorry About That Opioid Thing

Sorry About That Opioid Thing This Week In Blunders – Dec. 8-14 By Al Lewis, Business Blunders     “I love my Fed-Ex guy cause he's a drug dealer...

The ‘godfather of EVs’ explains why China is winning the race to go electric — and why hybrids are a ‘fool’s errand’

The man often known as the "godfather of EVs" has a warning for automakers thinking of ditching electric vehicles for hybrids. Andy Palmer, a former Aston Martin CEO and Nissan exec, told Business Insider that delaying transitioning to EVs in favor of selling hybrids was a "fool's errand" and warned …

As Santa Rally Begins, Wall Street Closes on High Note

Wall Street’s main indexes all closed higher on Tuesday, with gains in megacap and growth stocks bolstering benchmarks in a truncated Christmas Eve session. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq Composite scored four straight sessions of gains, with the S&P 500 taking its winning streak …

Why A Santa Claus Rally May Be Coming

Why A Santa Claus Rally May Be Coming By Ilene (AI-assisted) The traditional Santa Claus rally, which typically occurs during the last five trading days of...

Biden takes final shot at China chip industry with new investigation

The Biden administration said on Monday it launched an investigation into China's semiconductor sector, which officials claim threatens U.S. national …

China has banned US exports of key minerals for computer chips – leaving Washington with limited options

China recently banned the export of the minerals gallium and germanium to the US amid growing tensions between the two countries on trade. The …

Is the Tech Industry Already on the Cusp of an A.I. Slowdown? (shared)

Companies like OpenAI and Google are running out of the data used to train artificial intelligence systems. Can new methods continue years of rapid progress? Demis Hassabis, one of the most influential artificial intelligence experts in the world, has a warning for the rest of the tech industry: …

9 evergreen investor lessons from 2024 – Sam Ro (updated)

9 evergreen investor lessons from 2024  9 evergreen investor lessons from 2024  Plus a charted review of the macro crosscurrents  By Sam Ro, at TKer by Sam...

Trump wanted $90M for inauguration while cutting $190M from cancer research: lawmaker

The federal government narrowly averted a year-end shutdown after an 11th-hour effort in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives to cobble a bill …

The First Sleep Apnea Drug Is Here

The weight-loss drug Zepbound (tirzepatide) now has another major benefit: on Dec. 20, it became the first drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat obstructive sleep apnea. In the trial that Lilly, the drug's manufacturer, submitted in April to the FDA, scientists …

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Trump was poised to inherit a strong economy. Then things got rocky and he added to the uncertainty

Trump was poised to inherit a strong economy. Then things got rocky and he added to the uncertainty By JOSH BOAK, AP The smooth economy that...

Novo Nordisk shares plunge 20% after disappointing trial results; Lilly jumps

Shares of Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk plummeted roughly 20% on Friday after reporting results in a late-stage trial for its experimental …

Trump-backed funding bill fails as government shutdown looms

Democrats voted against the bill en masse after they were left out of negotiations.

As firms abandon VMware, Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank

Ingram Micro the latest to ditch VMware, but VMware's still making money. Another company has publicly cut ties with Broadcom's VMware. This time, …

Dow plunges more than 1,100 points and marked its longest losing streak since 1974

New York CNN — The Dow plunged Wednesday on a disappointing outlook from the Federal Reserve. In the process, the blue-chip index extended its losing streak to 10 days — the longest such stretch since Gerald Ford was president. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day down about 1,123 points, …

Digging into the Databricks “bargain”

"We got a bargain" is not usually what you hear from a venture capitalist who just committed to a $10 billion round at a $62 billion valuation. But …

Trump Has Found the Media’s Biggest Vulnerability

Most major media properties are tied to larger business interests that can benefit from government policy—or be harmed by it. Now that the election is over, Donald Trump has returned to one of his most cherished pastimes: filing nuisance lawsuits. Abusing the legal system was a key precept of …

Fed Just Cut Interest Rates But Signaled Fewer And Slower Future Cuts

The Federal Reserve announced a policy decision to cut interest rates by 0.25% on December 18. This decision was accompanied by Federal Open Market Committee member forecasts, which reflected expectations of fewer and slower additional Fed interest rate cuts through the end of 2025, 2026, and 2027 …

AI will continue to grow in 2025. But it will face major challenges along the way

In 2024, artificial intelligence (AI) continued taking large and surprising steps forward. People started conversing with AI “resurrections” of the …

Veteran analyst who predicted the S&P 500’s rally unveils target for 2025

Here's what could happen to the S&P 500 in 2025. While most of Wall Street was skeptical that stocks could deliver back-to-back big years coming into …

Abandoning globalization is a sure path to immiseration

Do we blame trade — or the fact that the United States addresses disruption very poorly? Americans are done with globalization. For the third time in a row, in November voters chose a president who promised to rein-in the thing. Indeed, in the past two elections there wasn’t a pro-globalization …

Which infectious disease is likely to be the biggest emerging problem in 2025?

COVID emerged suddenly, spread rapidly and killed millions of people around the world. Since then, I think it’s fair to say that most people have …

The First Sleep Apnea Drug Is Here

The weight-loss drug Zepbound (tirzepatide) now has another major benefit: on Dec. 20, it became the first drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat obstructive sleep apnea. In the trial that Lilly, the drug's manufacturer, submitted in April to the FDA, scientists …

Novo Nordisk shares plunge 20% after disappointing trial results; Lilly jumps

Shares of Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk plummeted roughly 20% on Friday after reporting results in a late-stage trial for its experimental …

Carfentanil is 100 times more potent than fentanyl, and it’s killing people

Drug overdose deaths in the US have finally begun to abate. Between June 2023 and June 2024, they fell by 14%. However, deaths from a drug used to …

U.S. Senator Urges EPA to Release “Science-Based” Report on Formaldehyde Health Risks

Citing a ProPublica investigation that found formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other toxic air pollutant, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, …

Vaccine misinformation distorts science – a biochemist explains how RFK Jr. and his lawyer’s claims threaten public health

Vaccinations provide significant protection for the public against infectious diseases and substantially reduce health care costs. Therefore, it is …

‘Mirror life forms’ may sound like science fiction, but scientists warn they could be deadly to humans and destroy the environment

When you look in a mirror, the reflection is fundamentally you, but with a perfect reversal of all your features. This illustrates a phenomenon we …

How BioNTech’s “revolutionary” lung cancer vaccine actually works

The promising new treatment builds on research that went into developing COVID vaccines. Sign up for the Smarter Faster newsletter A weekly newsletter …