Bloomberg A top Facebook Inc executive said the company’s strategy to distinguish between journalism and political content will go into effect in the “coming days.” Facebook’s head of global news partnerships, Campbell Brown, said in an updated blog post that the social-media giant would divide its political ads archive into two sections — one for ads promoting news stories about ...

Bloomberg At a new luxury-condo building in Brooklyn, one buyer told broker Ryan Serhant that she’d like three apartments — one for herself to live in, and two as investments to rent out. She wasn’t the only one. The tower, 550 Vanderbilt, had more buyers become landlords in 2017 than any other condo project in the city, according to data ...

The ‘gig economy,’ RIP. Well, maybe. As you’ll recall, the gig economy refers to a radical transformation of the nature of work and US labor markets. Digital platforms better match workers with jobs (aka, gigs). Uber was, and is, the prototype of this upheaval. Its existence seemed confirmed. One survey by well-regarded labor economists Lawrence Katz of Harvard and Alan ...