Airbnb Proposes Giving Hosts Company Equity

Airbnb has asked the SEC to change rules to potentially allow the home-sharing platform to offer hosts a stake in the company.

 
Digital Publisher Mic Network Is Considering Acquisition Offer From Media Company

Digital publisher Mic Network is considering an acquisition offer, among other strategic options, as financial pressures mount on the company.

 
Apple Launches New iPhones (Again). Here's a Guide.

Two of the newest iPhones hit stores Friday, with scenes of customers around the world lining up outside Apple stores. Customer turnout will go a long way toward determining Apple's results over the next year.

 
U.S. Probes Drugmakers Over Free Services

Federal prosecutors are probing whether big drugmakers including Sanofi, Gilead Sciences and Biogen potentially violated laws by providing free services to doctors and patients.

 
Delta Seeks Jet-Fuel Refinery Partner

Delta Air Lines is looking for a partner to share the burden of its six-year experiment in running a jet-fuel refinery.

 
Circle of Life: Elton John Stays With Music Label

Elton John re-signed a deal to stay with the world's largest music company, Universal Music Group, in a sign there is still a place for music labels in the streaming age.

 
Game Theory Part of the Art of the Sky Deal

The same type of blind auction used to pick players in fantasy football leagues could decide the fate of Sky, a media company that employs 30,000 people and has a stock-market value of $36 billion.

 
U.K. Probes Danske Bank Money- Laundering Case

The U.K. National Crime Agency said it is probing British ties to a money-laundering scandal at Danske Bank, as investigators begin to focus on where some of the $230 billion that washed through a tiny Estonian bank branch ended up.

 
Triple Set of EMA Recommendations for Novartis Drugs

Two Novartis drugs and one Sandoz biosimilar have received a positive European Medicines Agency recommendation, the company and the regulator said in separate statements.

 
Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function to Counter Travel Ban

Days after the Trump administration instituted a controversial travel ban in January 2017, Google employees discussed how they could tweak the company's search-related functions to show users how to contribute to pro-immigration organizations and contact lawmakers and government agencies, according to internal company emails.

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