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Why Medium failed to disrupt the media

  Ev Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, spent five years building Medium into one of the slickest publishing platforms on the web. Yet he found himself in traditional-publishing purgatory, cutting 50 employees and searching for a new business model. There could be no better proof that delivery methods matter little and content is king. In the post outlining the changes, ...

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Boeing can survive a China trade war

  As if it wasn’t bad enough getting into a fight with the president-elect over the cost of Air Force One, Boeing Co. is facing problems from the other side of the Pacific. Beijing is planning to step up scrutiny of US companies in the event that Donald Trump flips from trash-talking the cost of presidential aircraft to taking punitive ...

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Slim pickings in the Brexit bargain bin

  Foreign takeovers of British companies have been surprisingly few given the fall in sterling since Britons voted to leave the European Union in June. The bids for chip-designer Arm Holdings Plc, broadcaster Sky Plc and pubs group Punch Taverns are the only post-referendum deals for UK firms worth more than $1 billion, according to Bloomberg data. Activity has been ...

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