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Ernst & Young Halts Breakup Plan
The Big Four accounting firm has ended its efforts to split into consulting and auditing businesses after U.S. partners objected to the proposal.
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Former Outcome Health Executives Found Guilty of Fraud
A federal jury convicted the former CEO and two other ex-executives of the once-highflying startup on charges that they defrauded customers and investors.
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Judge Rejects Theranos Founder Holmes’s Bid to Stay Out of Prison
The judge said in a filing that he didn’t think Elizabeth Holmes’s arguments for reversing her conviction or getting a new trial raised issues significant enough to merit a different outcome.
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Your Gen Z Co-Worker Is Hustling More Than You Think
Ambitious 20-somethings are trying to knock down the stereotype that they aren’t into hard work
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Exxon Deal Hunt Signals Possible Shale M&A Wave
A transaction involving Pioneer Natural Resources would indicate that drillers are looking to put their large war chests of cash to work.
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Newmont Raises Bid for Australia’s Newcrest to $19.5 Billion
The takeover would be the largest-ever M&A deal in the gold-mining industry if successful.
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Biden Administration Weighs Possible Rules for AI Tools Like ChatGPT
Fears are growing over the potential use of artificial intelligence to commit crimes and spread falsehoods.
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Social-Media Platform Discord Emerges at Center of Classified U.S. Documents Leak
The company started as an online space for gamers to gather and has grown to attract all sorts of users.
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Former Twitter Executives Sue for Unpaid Fees
The erstwhile CEO, CFO and legal chief claim the social-media platform owes them more than $1 million in legal expenses.
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Occidental Makes a Billion-Dollar Climate Moonshot—So It Can Keep Pumping Oil
The petroleum giant says its plan to capture and store carbon dioxide will give it leeway to invest in fossil fuels.