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Care.com Removes 70 Percent Of Daycare Listings From Site
Markets // April 01, 2019

Care.com, the internet-based childcare marketplace, had removed more than 46,000 daycare center listings from its website ahead of a Wall Street Journal investigation into its practices earlier this month. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal citing an analysis, Care.com took down around 72 percent...

Uber Is Planning To Step Away From Its Leasing Program
Ridesharing // August 09, 2017

Uber is planning to close out or sell its car-leasing division in the U.S. by the end of this year, according to a source familiar with the situation. According to news from CNBC, Uber will shut down, sell to a partner or consolidate the car-leasing business...

Worldpay Agrees to $9.9B Merger with Vantiv
Partnerships / Acquisitions // July 05, 2017

Vantiv in, JPMorgan out. In a swift denouement to merger speculation that Worldpay, the biggest payment processing firm in the United Kingdom, would be a takeout candidate for some of its largest rivals across the pond, Vantiv and Worldpay said Wednesday that they had agreed...

Bitcoin’s New Problem: High Fees
Payment Methods // July 04, 2017

The speed of cryptocurrency is a lure in terms of getting transactions done. So is the security. The price, at least for Bitcoin? Not so much — not anymore. As The Wall Street Journal reports, while Bitcoin’s initial design may have been predicated on cheapness, the...

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OpenAI Inks Content Deal With News Corp

May 22, 2024
OpenAI has signed a deal with News Corp, a media conglomerate, that will give the artificial intelligence (AI) company access to content from many news organizations. The partnership enables OpenAI to use current and archived content from news publications including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch and the New York Post, among other publications, the firms […]

Uber Is Planning To Step Away From Its Leasing Program

August 09, 2017
Uber is planning to close out or sell its car-leasing division in the U.S. by the end of this year, according to a source familiar with the situation. According to...

Bitcoin’s New Problem: High Fees

July 04, 2017
The speed of cryptocurrency is a lure in terms of getting transactions done. So is the security. The price, at least for Bitcoin? Not so much — not anymore. As The...

Credit Cards Top The Risks List In Fed Stress Tests

June 26, 2017
The Federal Reserve’s most recent annual stress test — the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review — revealed that credit cards rank at the top of the risk list for banks’...