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Why Your Airport May No Longer Resemble a Luxury Mall
Business, Carol Ryan, Published on 14/02/2022
» The airport luxury boutique became a staple of the pre-pandemic travel boom. Now it may be heading for the departure gate.
Amazon and Other Potential Suitors Explore Peloton Deal
Business, Cara Lombardo & Miriam Gottfried & Dana Cimilluca, Published on 07/02/2022
» Peloton Interactive Inc is drawing interest from potential suitors including Amazon.com Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, as the stationary-bike maker's stock slumps and an activist urges it to explore a sale.
Advent, Permira Near Deal to Buy McAfee for More Than $10 Billion
Business, Cara Lombardo & Miriam Gottfried & Dana Cimilluca, Published on 08/11/2021
» Security-software company McAfee Corp. is nearing a deal to sell itself to a group including private-equity firms Advent International Corp. and Permira for more than $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
For Fashion Brands, Green Is the Hardest Color to Sell
Business, Carol Ryan, Published on 08/11/2021
» If the fashion world wants to have less of an impact on the planet, the best solution would be to produce less. But well-known brands still seem to think sales can keep ticking up as usual.
FAA Plans Warnings to Pilots, Airlines Over New 5G Rollout
Business, Andrew Tangel & Ryan Tracy, Published on 01/11/2021
» US air-safety regulators are preparing to issue warnings to pilots and airlines about potential interference with key cockpit safety systems by a new 5G wireless service slated to go live as soon as early December, according to current and former government and aviation industry officials briefed on the matter.
House Bills Seek to Break Up Amazon, Big Tech Companies
Business, Dana Mattioli & Ryan Tracy, Published on 14/06/2021
» House lawmakers proposed a raft of bipartisan legislation aimed at reining in the country's biggest tech companies, including a bill that seeks to make Amazon.com Inc. and other large corporations effectively split in two or shed their private-label products.
European Luxury Is More Chinese Than Ever
Business, Carol Ryan, Published on 25/05/2020
» The world's top luxury brands make much of their European heritage, but their future is looking more Chinese than ever. However this contradiction plays out in the long run, it poses one immediate problem: too many boutiques on their home continent.
Amazon Retools With Unusual Goal: Get Shoppers to Buy Less Amid Pandemic
Business, Dana Mattioli, Published on 18/04/2020
» Amazon.com Inc. is retooling its website to do the opposite of what made it one of the world's most powerful and dominant companies: Sell fewer items.
Online Grocers Are Getting a Preview of Their Future
Business, Carol Ryan, Published on 30/03/2020
» If the Covid-19 outbreak provides a global test for buying food online, it is one that supermarkets are by and large failing. Yet their e-commerce businesses should be in a different league after the crisis.
Intuit Near Deal to Buy Credit Karma for $7 Billion
Business, Cara Lombardo & Dana Cimilluca, Published on 25/02/2020
» Intuit Inc. is nearing a deal to buy personal-finance portal Credit Karma Inc. for about $7 billion in cash and stock, in a move that would push the bookkeeping-software giant further into consumer finance, according to people familiar with the matter.