News Highlights: Top Company News of the Day
September 21 2018 - 3:30PM
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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.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
September 21, 2018 15:15 ET (19:15 GMT)
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