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Amazon Prime Day can cost competitors later on
This year's Prime Day begins today, and stretches across two days. But retailers across the world are scrambling to keep up with a second major shopping season, four months before the traditional Thanksgiving Black Friday sales
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Facebook: FTC approves $5 billion fine mishandling user information
The landmark settlement signals a newly aggressive stance by regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission, toward the most powerful technology companies
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Business (Deadly truth about a world built for men), Lifestyle (Why young Koreans love to splurge), Technology (Unsupervised learning), Brands (Kardashian Clan's 716 trademarks), Investments (Do millennials need money managers?), Water Crisis (India is the largest exporter of water even as taps run dry), and Liberalisation (Devaki Jain on the two forces that might guide India back to justice).
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What Leonardo da Vinci couldn't finish
The 500th death anniversary of da Vinci is due this fall, and New York's Met museum will run a single-painting show starting Monday. "Saint Jerome Praying in the Wilderness," on loan from the Vatican museum, is an unfinished, raw, emotional work, and lets us see Leonardo's distracted, stop-and-start painting method in action
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RIP, Volkswagen Beetle: The iconic car rolls out of production
A look at how the bug-shaped car flourished over the years
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Gina Torres on 'Suits,' Meghan Markle and 'Pearson'
'Pearson' finds the beleaguered Jessica Pearson, the legal queen bee of Suits, played by Torres—disbarred in New York and her law license revoked in Illinois—sitting at the right hand of Mayor Bobby Novak (Morgan Spector) of Chicago
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Mukul Chadda and Gopal Datt on The Office fan reactions and political incorrectness
The actor duo speaks to Forbes India about the challenges of remaking a legacy series, and what sort of homework it took for them
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Harvard suspends Roland Fryer, star economist, after harassment inquiries
Harvard's actions represent a remarkable fall from grace for an economist who until recently was among the profession's most admired researchers — and one of Harvard's highest-paid faculty members.
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Julie Sweet to run Accenture, adding a woman to the ranks of corporate CEOs
With Sweet's appointment, 27 women will be leading companies in the S&P 500. That figure is up slightly from a year ago, but still means that just slightly more than 5% of the most valuable public companies in the United States are led by women
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14 Indian companies in Forbes Asia's 200 Best Under A Billion 2019 list
India's representation on the list indicates that midsized companies in the country have performed better in the last one year, as 10 new companies get added to the list this year
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US Federal Reserve chair raises 'serious concerns' about Facebook's cryptocurrency 'Libra'
Fed chair Jerome Powell says concerns about Facebook's Libra include 'money laundering, consumer protection and financial stability'