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Office Envy? A look inside L’Oreal USA’s headquarters at Hudson Yards, Manhattan

Photo credit: Garrett Rowland, courtesy of Gensler L’Oreal USA’s outside terrace at 10 Hudson Yards, Manhattan In 2016, L’Oreal USA moved its headquarters from nearby Midtown to Hudson Yards, joining a host of major firms that had chosen to park their offices in the West Side area, including TimeWarner, SAP …

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China’s industrial output grew 7.2 percent, beating expectations

Prisma Bildagentur | UIG | Getty Images Guomao District in Beijing on February 1, 2016. China’s industrial output grew 7.2 percent in the first two months of the year compared with the same period last year, while fixed-asset investment growth quickened to 7.9 percent, both easily beating expectations. Analysts polled …

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Board members urged scrutiny on cost of easing

Kazuhiro Nogi | AFP | Getty Images The Bank of Japan headquarters is seen past traffic in Tokyo on November 1, 2016. Most Bank of Japan policymakers shared the view that the central bank should “persistently” pursue powerful monetary easing at a January rate review, though some called for the …

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Abe cited documents to deny involvement

Joe Raedle | Getty Images Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie Abe at Mar-a-Lago resort on February 10, 2017. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday that the documents disclosed this week related to a controversial discount land sale show there was no involvement by either …

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Retraining nearly half its workforce

Today more than 6,300 students are enrolled at Georgia Tech to earn an online masters of science in computer science degree, with nearly 500 of them from AT&T. “We knew the vision of Randall Stephenson when it came to retraining and that he gave huge weight to education,” said Galil. …

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Netflix is reportedly working on a news show to rival ’60 Minutes’

Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Reed Hastings, chief executive officer of Netflix Netflix is in the early stages of developing a news show similar to CBS’s “60 Minutes” and ABC’s “20/20,” MarketWatch reported. The media streaming company is planning a weekly current affairs show “encompassing both sides …

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Trump floats the idea of creating a ‘Space Force’ to fight wars in space

Joshua Roberts | Reuters President Donald Trump waves as he arrives to speak in support of Republican congressional candidate Rick Sacconne during a Make America Great Again rally in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, U.S., March 10, 2018. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said his new national security strategy recognizes that space …

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Amazon will be a $1 trillion company in 4 years

Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Chief Executive Officer of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, tours the facility at the grand opening of the Amazon Spheres, in Seattle, Washington on January 29, 2018. Amazon’s stunning growth in new markets will boost the company’s shares, according to a Wall Street firm. Jefferies …

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Amazon Vendor Express shutting down

John Tlumacki | The Boston Globe | Getty Images A worker pulls carts full of customer orders along the floor inside the million-square foot Amazon distribution warehouse that opened last fall in Fall River, MA. Three years ago, Amazon launched a program called Vendor Express to make it easier for …

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Mike Pompeo on national security issues

Jabin Botsford | The Washington Post | Getty Images President Donald Trump flanked by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, right, speaks during a Cabinet Meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, DC on Tuesday, Nov. 01, 2017. Mattis, a former …

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