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Uber and Lyft are racing each other to go public. Here’s why.

By Chavie Lieber

New York already has thousands of Amazon workers — and some are unionizing to demand better conditions

By Gaby Del Valle

There are lots of reasons to worry about Google. Congress just picked the wrong one.

By Emily Stewart

The US government’s ongoing battle with Chinese telecom giant Huawei, explained

By Emily Stewart

The absurd quest to make the “best” razor

The $3.5 billion shaving industry is secretive and litigious — and disrupting itself silly.

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

Cannabis is now getting the Instagram museum treatment

By Chavie Lieber

How Melissa & Doug captured the toy market, one wooden block at a time

By Chavie Lieber

MoviePass announces yet another new pricing structure

By Alissa Wilkinson

The US got Canada to arrest a top Chinese tech executive

By Emily Stewart and Alex Ward

5 takeaways from the UK’s Facebook document dump

By Emily Stewart

Stock market plunges as Wall Street gives Trump’s China deal another look

By Emily Stewart

Popular MLM LuLaRoe is being sued by its main clothing provider

By Gaby Del Valle

Marriott workers just ended the largest hotel strike in US history

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Why US carmakers are betting on electric vehicles and SUVs at the same time

By Umair Irfan

Trump’s car deal with China is great — for other countries

By Alex Ward

After Sears declared bankruptcy, employees are fighting for severance pay

By Chavie Lieber

Airbnb will start designing homes

By Gaby Del Valle

J.Crew launched its newest brand 16 days ago. Now it’s closing.

By Rebecca Jennings

Deutsche Bank’s German office raids (apparently) have nothing to do with Trump

By Emily Stewart

Facebook agrees to civil rights audit update, apologizes for Soros opposition research

By Emily Stewart

There are many reasons to be mad at Sheryl Sandberg. Asking about Soros’s Facebook interests isn’t one of them.

By Emily Stewart

Trump tweets that tariffs are making the US “richer than ever before.” They’re not.

By Emily Stewart

Trump’s beef with the Fed, explained

By Emily Stewart

How and why do influencers make so much money? The head of an agency explains.

By Chavie Lieber

A budget airline passenger asked for water. He was given a cup of ice and told to wait.

By Aditi Shrikant

Trump says he’ll cut GM’s subsidies. He can’t do it without Congress.

By Emily Stewart

Now that the stock market is down, Trump wants to take credit for oil prices

By Emily Stewart

Amazon warehouse workers in Europe spent Black Friday protesting

By Chavie Lieber

These are the charities where your money will do the most good

By Dylan Matthews

GM is closing plants and cutting jobs. Here’s what it means for workers — and for Trump.

By Emily Stewart

General Motors is cutting 14,000 jobs and focusing on self-driving and electric vehicles

By Aditi Shrikant

America’s monopoly problem, in one chart

By Emily Stewart

Why disaster relief is so hard

By Kelsey Piper

Black Friday is longer, and tamer, than ever

By Gaby Del Valle

The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Amazon warehouse manager

By Chavie Lieber

Kids’ toys are the latest battleground in the online privacy wars

By E.J. Dickson

Thousands of Toys R Us workers are getting severance, following months of protests

By Chavie Lieber

Shopping local won’t save small businesses from closing. Here’s what will.

By Rebecca Jennings

Trump thanks Saudi Arabia for low oil prices after letting it off the hook for Khashoggi murder

By Emily Stewart

Mark Zuckerberg is essentially untouchable at Facebook

By Emily Stewart

The decline of David’s Bridal says a lot about millennial attitudes toward weddings

By E.J. Dickson

I work in urban planning. Now Amazon’s coming to my city.

By Alex Baca
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