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The chipmaker is preparing worldwide layoffs tied to performance reviews as it pushes into AI data centers, raising a familiar question: what happens when a company’s future needs a different workforce than the one that built it?
Once a symbol of startup innovation, Foursquare has been acquired by an advertising technology company. Co-founder Dennis Crowley says the deal paid its shareholders nothing, raising uncomfortable questions about how the technology industry measures success.
Artificial intelligence has been cited in more than 120,000 announced U.S. job cuts in 2026, while new business applications are running near record highs. The same tools reshaping corporate payrolls are lowering the cost of going out on your own, but not everyone can afford to take that leap.
A Goldman Sachs survey finds that more than one-third of America’s highest-income households struggle to make progress on long-term financial goals. Rising expenses, family obligations and lifestyle expectations are changing what financial security looks like.
Losing a job can upend your finances, confidence and sense of direction. Recovery takes more than sending out résumés: it means protecting your stability, rethinking your search and learning to compete in a labor market that may have changed since you were last hired.
A 50% drop in one developer’s sales has not stopped it from investing in luxury residences, hotels and offices. Dubai is betting its wealthiest buyers and growing financial industry can withstand a regional slowdown.
The airport says expansion could support more than 100,000 jobs, but the government remains divided over the economic and environmental costs.
Pepsi’s loss of KFC hands Coca-Cola another high-profile restaurant win. Market share, food-service accounts and corporate scale show the cola rivalry is more complicated than which soda tastes better.
A chief of staff posting for the billionaire investor asks for in-person days from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., nights and weekends when needed, and a three-year commitment. The reaction shows how far AI-era work culture has swung back toward hustle.
Harvard posted its best investment year since 2021 as SpaceX went public, even as the Trump administration cut its research funding and a much bigger endowment tax arrives.
When Cleveland-Cliffs bought Canadian steelmaker Stelco for about $2.5 billion in 2024, employment commitments helped secure federal approval of the acquisition. Two years later, those commitments are becoming the center of a fight between the company and Canada over plans to eliminate as many as 500 jobs. Wall Street Journal reporter Robb M. Stewart reported Friday that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is weighing legal options that could include fines and even a forced sale of assets.
IonQ is using a $1.3 billion deal to build out the security side of its quantum-computing strategy.
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