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Campaigns Rush to Submit Facebook Ads Ahead of Limits

October 26, 2020 Erin Slifka Comments Off

Republican and Democratic political advertisers are scrambling to submit their ads to the social-media giant before the end of Monday after the company moved to ban new political ads in the week before Election Day.

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Can Gap Escape the Whirlwind? New CEO Confronts Years of Decline

October 26, 2020 Erin Slifka Comments Off

Sonia Syngal must defy the vortex consuming companies that weren’t prepared for the Covid crisis. She is plotting a future of fewer stores and more fashion risks to revive the company’s namesake brand.

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Bayer to Buy Gene-Therapy Firm AskBio for Up to $4 Billion

October 26, 2020 Erin Slifka Comments Off

Bayer intends to acquire U.S.-based Asklepios BioPharmaceutical to strengthen the German company’s drugmaking arm, as Bayer continues to reel from its acquisition of crops giant Monsanto.

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China Trade War Didn’t Boost U.S. Manufacturing Might

October 25, 2020 Erin Slifka Comments Off

Hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs on Chinese goods imposed by the Trump administration didn’t achieve the central objective of reversing a U.S. decline in manufacturing, economic data shows.

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Facebook Prepares Measures in Case of Election Unrest

October 25, 2020 Erin Slifka Comments Off

The emergency measures, originally designed for countries facing mass ethnic or political bloodshed, include slowing the spread of viral content and lowering the bar for suppressing potentially inflammatory posts.

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Business on Biden: Not So Bad, Given the Alternatives

October 25, 2020 Erin Slifka Comments Off

Many executives see the Democratic nominee as less adversarial than Sanders or Warren, and less unpredictable than Trump. Yet political attitudes vary considerably by industry and type of business.

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Missouri DHSS Sponsors Upcoming Manager Wellness Training

October 25, 2020 Erin Slifka 0

(Joplin, MO) – The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) is sponsoring two more manager training sessions that are free to those interested. These are great one-hour, virtual courses built to help engage […]

Why You Might Have Trouble Getting the Refrigerator or Car You Want

October 25, 2020 Erin Slifka Comments Off

U.S. manufacturers are falling short of demand for goods from cars to appliances to lawn mowers that consumers are buying in big numbers as the pandemic drags on.

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Lee Kun-hee, Samsung’s Chairman, Dies at 78

October 24, 2020 Erin Slifka Comments Off

Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, who transformed a second-tier electronics parts maker into the world’s biggest manufacturer of smartphones and televisions, died Sunday. He was 78 years old.

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Quibi Is Hollywood’s Biggest Short-Form Failure—but Not Its First

October 24, 2020 Erin Slifka Comments Off

The streaming platform pitched high-production shows in a format dominated by user-generated content.

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Articles by Erin Slifka

Campaigns Rush to Submit Facebook Ads Ahead of Limits

Can Gap Escape the Whirlwind? New CEO Confronts Years of Decline

Bayer to Buy Gene-Therapy Firm AskBio for Up to $4 Billion

China Trade War Didn’t Boost U.S. Manufacturing Might

Facebook Prepares Measures in Case of Election Unrest

Business on Biden: Not So Bad, Given the Alternatives

Missouri DHSS Sponsors Upcoming Manager Wellness Training

Why You Might Have Trouble Getting the Refrigerator or Car You Want

Lee Kun-hee, Samsung’s Chairman, Dies at 78

Quibi Is Hollywood’s Biggest Short-Form Failure—but Not Its First

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