Articles filed under Bloomberg
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VW boosts tech spending within $177 billion investment budgetNov 16, 2020 9:14 am - Volkswagen will reserve a bigger slice of its 150-billion euro ($177 billion) budget for electric cars and software in the next five years, stepping up technology spendi...
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Analysis: COVID-proofing air is a $10B opportunityNov 10, 2020 1:39 pm - When's the last time you actually thought about your office's air conditioner? Pre-pandemic, assuming it worked, probably never. Today? Probably a lot. And even once the...
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When to give money to your parents (and when not to)Nov 15, 2020 7:51 am - Should you give money to your parents? As your parents get older and you get more established, they may turn to you for financial support. And now may be the time older ...
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Analysis: Wave of foreclosures may follow housing market boomNov 10, 2020 7:35 am - The housing market is booming. Is this another indication that the recovery from the Pandemic Recession is complete for the rich, while low-income households are left be...
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In a pandemic, every day is bring-your-child-to-work dayNov 09, 2020 8:16 am - Years before "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day" became a thing, my dad occasionally brought me to his office as the need arose. There was something a bit thrillin...
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Waymo seeks to calm doubts about driverless cars with data troveNov 09, 2020 5:40 am - Autonomous vehicle developers have so far operated without shared industry standards for safety and with minimal oversight from state and federal governments. Waymo, say...
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Inside the chaotic unraveling of Jack Ma's $35 billion IPONov 09, 2020 5:40 am - The midlevel bureaucrats left China's richest man waiting as they prepared for a meeting that would send shock waves across the financial world. It was Monday morning in...
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Analysis: Uber's ballot victory doesn't fix gig economy's big problemNov 09, 2020 8:16 am - Uber Technologies and Lyft won a big victory on a state ballot measure that could have threatened their businesses by changing their relationship with workers. But this ...
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Uber won its prized contractor status for drivers. Now what?Nov 09, 2020 5:40 am - In one fell swoop, Uber and Lyft on Tuesday fended off labor protections that were decades in the making, allowing the companies to keep compensating their drivers as in...
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U.S. service industries expand at slowest pace in five monthsNov 06, 2020 7:23 am - U.S. service industries expanded in October at the slowest pace in five months as orders and employment cooled, indicating more moderate growth in the biggest part of th...