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Facebook called off a deal to buy Houseparty because of fears it would attract unwanted antitrust scrutiny Fortnite

Facebook called off a deal to buy Houseparty because of fears it would attract unwanted antitrust scrutiny

Facebook killed a deal to buy a video-chat app popular with teens out of fear it might draw attention from antitrust regulators, The New York Times reported Monday. Houseparty is an app that allows multiple people to video chat at once, and became hugely p…
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August 13, 2019
PepsiCo & Inter-American Development Bank Partnership Helps More Than 765,000 People in Latin America Gain Access to Clean Water Water Scarcity

PepsiCo & Inter-American Development Bank Partnership Helps More Than 765,000 People in Latin America Gain Access to Clean Water

PURCHASE, N.Y., Aug. 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEP) today announced that its partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the largest source of development financing in Latin America, has helped more than 765,000 people in…
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August 13, 2019
How Richard Vague Discovered Gravity: An Interview + Book Review of A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises Feudalism

How Richard Vague Discovered Gravity: An Interview + Book Review of A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises

Yves here. As John Siman describes below, Richard Vague, who has done considerable work on the economic damage done by high levels of private debt, extended it by making an in-depth study of financial crises. Vague documents that private debt growth over time…
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August 13, 2019