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Extra Inventory, More Sales, Lower Prices: How Counterfeits Benefit Amazon
Jon Fawcett wanted to build a cellphone cable that wouldn’t fray. So he developed a charging cord wrapped in stainless steel sturdy enough to withstand an electric chainsaw.
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The Explosive Problem With Recycling iPads, iPhones and Other Gadgets
What happens to gadgets when you're done with them? Too often, they explode.
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Amazon Could Open 3,000 Cashierless Stores by 2021
Amazon.com Inc. is considering a plan to open as many as 3,000 new AmazonGo cashierless stores in the next few years, according to people familiar with the matter, an aggressive and costly expansion that would threaten convenience chains such as 7-Eleven Inc., quick-service sandwich shops such as Subway and Panera Bread, and mom-and-pop pizzerias and taco trucks.
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When Your Prescription Drug Is Tainted With a Chemical 'Used to Make Rocket Fuel'
Wayne Pearl, like millions of people with high blood pressure, takes the widely prescribed generic drug valsartan.
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Hospitals Are Fed Up With Drug Companies, So They're Starting Their Own
A group of major American hospitals, battered by price spikes on old drugs and long-lasting shortages of critical medicines, has launched a not-for-profit generic drug company, Civica Rx, to take some control over the drug supply.
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Here's What a 'Silver Tsunami' of Retiring Baby Boomer Business Owners Could Mean for Their Workers
As Labor Day arrives — and economic inequality rises on the political agenda — a little-noticed measure in the recently signed defense spending bill aims to address the widening wealth divide between workers and the owners or top executives who manage them.
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In Soybean Country, Trump's Trade War With China Tests Patience and Nerves
Doug Saathoff, whose great-grandfather began farming around Trumbull, Neb., in the late 1800s, planted his first soybean in 1996 and hasn’t lost money since. Even droughts haven’t hurt because there’s plenty of underground water.
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