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...With the purchases of marketplaces Jet.com and Flipkart, Walmart has become a platform that embraces third-party sellers. This marks a departure....
...The recent protests at Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com about the use of their technology in sensitive areas such as the US military or immigration services have shown that Silicon Valley’s rank and...
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...it was probably a bubble: At the beginning of 2000, the 10 largest market-cap tech stocks in the United States, collectively representing a 25% share of the S&P 500 Index—Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, IBM, AOL...
...If the AT&T deal falls apart, Verizon — which has thus far focused on acquiring smaller digital media assets such as Yahoo and AOL — could swoop in with a fresh offer for Time Warner, say several dealmakers...
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