Used Car Retail Startup Vroom Valued at $1.5 Billion in Latest Funding 
 

Vroom, a used car marketplace and delivery startup, was valued at $1.5 billion in a new financing, according to a person familiar with the matter.

 
Facebook in Talks to Add More New York Office Space 
 

Facebook is in talks to lease a landmark Manhattan building in a deal that would make it one of New York's largest corporate tenants and would help offset the lack of Amazon's second headquarters earlier planned for the city.

 
'Frozen 2' Artists' Tweets Draw Apology From Disney in Japan 
 

Walt Disney's Japan unit apologized after artists it hired to endorse its "Frozen 2" movie on Twitter failed to label the tweets as promotional.

 
Stitcher Strikes $10 Million Deal With 'My Favorite Murder' Hosts 
 

The creators of a popular true-crime podcast have signed a deal worth at least $10 million with E.W. Scripps's Stitcher podcasting unit, according to people familiar with the deal, signaling the nascent medium's rapid growth.

 
Cyberattacks Complicate War Exclusions for Insurers 
 

Digital criminal activity is challenging the conventional definition of what constitutes acts of war and aggression, experts say.

 
Michael Dell's Money Managers Change How His Wealth Is Invested 
 

MSD Capital, Michael Dell's $16 billion family office, is pulling back from active stock-picking. Co-founder Glenn Fuhrman is leaving at year-end.

 
CORE Industrial Doubles Down on Additive Manufacturing 
 

Midwest Composite Technologies, a 3D-printing company, has bought injection-molding specialist ICOMold LLC, as private-equity sponsor CORE Industrial Partners expands its reach in the growing additive-manufacturing market

 
Big Tobacco Is a Long Way From Burning Out 
 

The threat of harsher regulations has hit cigarette stocks, but the industry may be more resilient than investors think.

 
Google Management Shuffle Points to Retreat From Alphabet Experiment 
 

Sundar Pichai's appointment as CEO of Google parent Alphabet effectively shifts the focus back on the company's advertising profit machine and away from its "moonshots" and other potential new businesses.

 
Uber Report Details Sexual Assaults in U.S. Over Two Years 
 

Uber Technologies said it received 5,981 reports of sexual assault involving U.S. passengers or drivers during 2017 and 2018, underscoring the risk that has been a chief criticism of ride-hailing companies around the world.

 
 

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