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Avis Budget Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CAR) announced Monday it has formed a partnership with Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)’s autonomous car business, Waymo. Under a multi-year agreement, Avis will service and store 600 of Waymo’s self-driving cars. The fleet is part of Waymo...

A lawsuit that seeks to block the use of public school funds for the Detroit Pistons’ move from the suburbs to the Little Caesars Arena under construction downtown could “kill” the project and trigger a municipal bond default, the city’s attorney said Monday. Community...

Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX) on Monday announced a $100 million partnership with Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) to produce bite-sized dramas and comedies for the platform. The deal involves two years of ads and up to 10 original shows from Time Warner properties HBO, Turner and Warner Bros. The content is...

Investors are shrugging off Friday's announcement that McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) and the International Olympic Committee mutually agreed to end their partnership. Shares of McDonald's were trading slightly higher by 0.3 percent early Friday morning after McDonald's Global Chief Marketing...

Updating the M&A scenario in the chemicals space, Bernstein said in a note on Monday that there are currently six M&A live deals in its covered chemicals space, now that the PPG Industries, Inc (NYSE: PPG)–Akzo Nobel N.V. (ADR) (OTC: AKZOY) deal has been called off. Analysts Jeremy...

A bill to permit e-contracts in auto financing in California has alarmed consumer advocates and attorneys representing victims of unethical auto sales. “E-contracts allow fraud on a scale I’ve never seen,” says San Diego attorney Hal Rosner, who represents hundreds of car buyers...

Protagonist Therapeutics Inc(NASDAQ: PTGX) shares are trading higher by $3.54 — over 43 percent — at $11.76 in Tuesday's session. Investors are aggressively purchasing shares of the company following the announcement that the company has entered a agreement with Janssen to co-develop...

For the last year or so, the future of private prisons has been marked by uncertainty. Officials of the Obama Administration pushed to wean off contractors as overflow of federal inmates diminished, before the Trump Administration thrust support behind the private model. But it seems the contracted...

After several months of poor daily-active-user figures by Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP), Evan Spiegel, Snapchat CEO and co-founder, is determined to drive user-engagement. The DAU decline occurred right after Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB)'s Instagram Stories launched, and Spiegel has taken notice. Specifically...

Harley-Davidson Inc (NYSE: HOG), which used the “buy American” credo for much of its marketing efforts, plans to build an assembly plant in Thailand to better embrace the Asian market. Harley was down 1.59 percent, at $52 on Wednesday, after word about the plant opening leaked out....

Following Rep. Ro Khanna (D–CA)'s letter to the Department of Defense, dated March 17, urging additional scrutiny on TransDigm Group Incorporated (NYSE: TDG)'s contracting process, Height Securities said Congressional support for review may be growing. Alleviating Audit Burden Meanwhile,...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is reportedly in talks with DISH Network Corp (NASDAQ: DISH) to become a “foundational customer” for the satellite provider’s upcoming Internet of Things (IoT) network ━ so what’s the big deal? “The idea of Amazon partnering with DISH...

Shares of Nokia Oyj (ADR) (NYSE: NOK) gained more than 6 percent early Tuesday morning after the company's rocky-at-best relationship with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) took a turn for the better; the two are now cooperating on new technologies. Apple filed an antitrust case against Acacia Research...

BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ: BBRY) continued its bullish momentum on Monday when the company announced a new deal with Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) to expand the use of the QNX operating system in Ford automobiles. Following Monday’s 8.7 percent gain, BlackBerry shares are now up more than 63...

Shares of Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX) gained more than 6 percent on Monday and hit a new 52-week high of $32.10 after the company successfully raised $20 billion for an infrastructure fund. The government of Saudi Arabia pledged $20 billion to Blackstone's newly created infrastructure investment...