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Booz Allen in March moved to acquire EverWatch, a company it had been competing against to win a five-year contract to support the NSA’s mission of collecting foreign communications.

The company also announced partnerships with Microsoft and Zoom to improve hybrid work for professionals.

The new structure allows the company’s chip-making factories to work like contract operations.

Hidden records show thousands of senior executive branch employees owned shares of companies whose fates were directly affected by their employers’ actions, a Wall Street Journal investigation found.

A deal between the life-sciences companies would be worth more than $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

As Elon Musk’s company seeks to regain the lead in the Chinese market, the new-energy auto battle is also heating up overseas.

Target and Walmart are rolling out early deals this week in a bid to attract holiday shoppers, as the retail industry works to unload excess inventory and compete with Amazon.

Renault and Nissan Motor said they are discussing ways to reinforce their partnership, including the possibility of an investment by Nissan in Renault’s new electric-vehicle unit.

Inflation has helped push profit margins above prepandemic levels, but third-quarter earnings are expected to soften.

Electric-vehicle makers in Asia and the companies that supply them are rushing to capital markets to raise money, as they try to take advantage of a surge in demand for energy-efficient automobiles.