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In this article PARA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, California, US on Monday, April 29, 2024.  Eric Thayer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Paramount Global has agreed to merge with Skydance, capping off a monthslong negotiation that included various twists and turns, which means the Redstone family will

Courtesy: Walmart When Walmart announced earlier this summer that it would add digital shelf labels to more of its stores, the discounter said the move would cut another tedious task from store workers’ to-do lists. Customers didn’t necessarily see it that way. On TikTok, some criticized the higher-tech price tags as the first step toward

In this article JBLU SAVE ULCC LUV AAL ALK DAL UAL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Passengers pass through O’Hare airport in Chicago, July 3, 2024. Scott Olson | Getty Images Record summer air travel demand isn’t translating to record U.S. airline profits. Carriers will have to answer for that disconnect when they report

In this article GFS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The semiconductor industry is recruiting workers in a tight labor market as the competition for talent ramps up and funding from the CHIPS and Science Act designed to spur domestic production continues to be dispersed. It is also staring down a projected shortfall of as

In this article PARA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Shari Redstone, president of National Amusements, speaks at the WSJ Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California, on Oct. 21, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters David Ellison’s Skydance has reached a preliminary deal with Shari Redstone’s National Amusements to merge with Paramount, according to two

Patrick Bertoletti, Geoffrey Esper and other contestants compete in the 2024 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island in New York City, U.S., July 4, 2024. Jeenah Moon | Reuters There’s a new top dog in the frankfurter eating world. Patrick Bertoletti won Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, the

Women’s soccer is bringing private equity off the sidelines. While other major U.S. sports leagues – Major League Soccer, the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League – have allowed private equity investors to take passive, minority stakes, only the National Women’s Soccer League has allowed these firms to take majority

Saks Fifth Avenue store at the Waterside Shops.  John Greim | Lightrocket | Getty Images Saks Fifth Avenue parent HBC said on Thursday it will acquire Neiman Marcus Group in a $2.65 billion deal combining the storied retailers. The combination will establish Saks Global, which will include Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks OFF 5TH, Neiman Marcus’

In this article UAL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A United Airlines plane seen at the gate at Chicago OHare International airport (ORD)on October 5, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. Daniel Slim | AFP | Getty Images Don’t believe bad weather is the reason your United Airlines flight is delayed? The airline will now text

In this article F Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ford Mustang Mach E electric vehicles are offered for sale at a dealership on June 05, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Ford sales rose 1% during the second quarter over the year-earlier period, led by a 5% gain in truck sales,

In this article MCD SOUN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The drive-thru menu at a McDonald’s restaurant showing various meal options and promotions, in Buttonwillow in Kern County, California, on 23, 2024. Smith Collection | Gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images Searching for ways to lower labor costs, restaurants are hoping that artificial

Sinenkiy | Istock | Getty Images In the wake of 9/11 on an American military base in South Korea, then-Army Staff Sergeant Dave Yeager sat down at a slot machine operated by the Defense Department and made what he now calls the biggest mistake a budding problem gambler can make: He won. “All that stress,