DealBook: A.I.G. Outlines Share Sale Plan
The American International Group on Wednesday laid out plans for its upcoming share offering as it moved to get off government life support. In a regulatory filing on Wednesday, A.I.G. said it would...
View ArticleFacebook‘Face Recognition’ Feature Draws Privacy Scrutiny
BRUSSELS— European Union data protection regulators said on Wednesday that they would investigate Facebook over a feature that uses face-recognition software to suggest people’s names to tag in...
View ArticlePandora Gains on Subscriptions and Mobile Ads
In its first quarterly earnings since going public, Pandora Media, the company behind the Internet radio service, reported increased revenue on Thursday, as well as growth in subscriptions and mobile...
View ArticleDomestic Workers Convention May Be Landmark
Even countries that fail to ratify the pact will eventually be judged by its standards, they said, and the campaign to pass it had enlisted fresh allies, newly mindful of abuses from unpaid wages to...
View ArticleDealBook: After 4th-Quarter Loss, Société Générale Plans Overhaul
Jacky Naegelen/ReutersThe headquarters of Société Générale in Paris. 5:05 a.m. | Updated PARIS — Société Générale posted a larger-than-expected fourth-quarter loss on Wednesday and said it would move...
View ArticleToday’s Economist: Casey B. Mulligan: Varieties of Not Working
Casey B. Mulligan is an economics professor at the University of Chicago. He is the author of “The Redistribution Recession: How Labor Market Distortions Contracted the Economy.” Today’s Economist...
View ArticlePiraeus Bank’s Michalis Sallas Reaches the Top in Greece
But now that he has managed to turn his bank into Greece’s largest, ensuring that Piraeus will be eligible for a bailout from the European Union, Mr. Sallas runs the risk that some of the steps he has...
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