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Read full court opinion approving AT&T’s bid for Time Warner

Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Randall Stephenson, chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T Inc., left, speaks while Jeffrey ‘Jeff’ Bewkes, chairman and chief executive officer of Time Warner Inc. A federal judge said Tuesday that AT&T’s $85.4 billion purchase of Time Warner is legal, clearing the …

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J&J accepts Platinum Equity’s offer for LifeScan diabetes business

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images A job seeker talks to a Johnson & Johnson job recruiter at a career fair in Washington, D.C. Johnson & Johnson has accepted an offer of about $2.1 billion for its LifeScan business from private equity firm Platinum Equity. J&J announced in March …

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Federal judge will rule on proposed AT&T-Time Warner merger

Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Randall Stephenson, chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T, left, speaks while Jeffrey Bewkes, chairman and chief executive officer of Time Warner, listens during a conference in Laguna Beach, California, October 25, 2016. A federal judge was expected to decide Tuesday whether …

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Human advisors are still crucial, even with the rise of robo-advisors

Zhang Peng | LightRocket | Getty Images Robots dance during a consumer electronics expo at the Beijing China National Convention Center on Jul. 8, 2017 in Beijing, China. Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize winning economist, said Tuesday financial advisors still play a major role in the finance world — despite …

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Chinese vase found in shoebox sells for $19 million

Thomas Samson | AFP | Getty Images A rare Imperial Qianlong porcelain vase (18th century) is displayed at Sotheby’s auction company in Paris, on May 22, 2018. An 18th century Chinese vase found in a shoebox in an attic in France sold for 16.2 million euros ($19 million) at auction …

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‘be careful who you trust’

Stephen McCarthy | Sportsfile/Corbis | Getty Images Palmer Luckey, Founder, Oculus VR, on the Centre Stage during Day 1 of the 2015 Web Summit in the RDS, Dublin, Ireland. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey says his time at Facebook taught him to “be careful who you trust,” in a new feature …

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A crucial Brexit debate is underway that threatens to derail the whole process

DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS | AFP | Getty Images Demonstrators holding EU and Union flags gather in front of the Houses of Parliament in Parliament Square following an anti Brexit, pro-European Union march in London on March 25, 2017, ahead of the British government’s planned triggering of Article 50. But perhaps the …

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Facebook explains to Congress how it uses Onavo

Yasin Ozturk | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. In 2013, Facebook bought an Israeli app developer called Onavo, whose service …

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What’s in a name? Kim, Trump signatures show ambition, experts say

Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images The signatures of US President Donald Trump (L) and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un (R) are seen on a document held up by Trump following a signing ceremony during their historic US-North Korea summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in …

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Facebook denies building eye-tracking software

Stephen Lam | Reuters Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook Inc’s annual F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S. May 1, 2018. Facebook denied building eye-tracking software in its response to questions from Congress released Monday but said if it ever did build out the technology, it would …

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