Tag: Business News

To Build the Metaverse, Meta First Wants to Build Stores

SAN FRANCISCO — One of Mark Zuckerberg’s first steps toward building the…

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Nancy Pelosi plans Friday votes on infrastructure, reconciliation

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday will force a vote on two…

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Campaign takes on BlackRock for alleged hypocrisy investing in Chinese companies

A consumer watchdog group has unveiled a multi-million-dollar campaign against BlackRock, the…

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How Tyson Foods Got 60,500 Workers to Get the Coronavirus Vaccine Quickly

SPRINGDALE, Ark. — When Tyson, one of the world’s largest meatpacking companies,…

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I Bonds, Offering a Safe Space for Cash, Get a Big Rate Bump

As the country recovers from the pandemic, rising prices have become a…

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Google Wants to Work With the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns

Three years after an employee revolt forced Google to abandon work on…

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Bernie Sanders rules out generous tax cut for wealthy in blue states

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernard Sanders dashed the hopes of congressional Democrats…

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Moderate Democrats demand transparency from Pelosi on actual cost of Biden’s $1.75T budget bill

A cadre of moderate House Democrats is demanding Speaker Nancy Pelosi hold…

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Corporate Climate Pledges Often Ignore a Key Component: Supply Chains

For nearly 30 years, the pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers Squibb has proclaimed…

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Fed Expected to Announce Plan to Slow Bond Buying Amid Rapid Inflation

Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, is on the cusp of…

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Facebook Plans to Shut Down Its Facial Recognition System

The change affects more than a third of Facebook’s daily users who…

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Global Shipping Delays Loom Over Retailers for the Holidays

WASHINGTON — It was 73 days until Christmas, and the clock was…

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