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Netflix is buying its first production studio complex Netflix isn't just expanding its footprint in California. The streaming behemoth is planning to open a production hub in New Mexico by acquiring Albuquerque's ABQ Studios — its first purchase of a production studio complex. (Engadget)

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By Mary Childs Oct. 9, 2018 5:00 a.m. ET Takashi Hososhima Sugata Ray conducts the most fun research. From his post teaching and researching at the University of Alabama, he studies disparate influences on asset management and market microstructure. He has looked at the effect of personal...

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“You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.” - Conrad Hall

Here's how this year's biggest US IPOs have performed It has been a busy year for initial public offering in America. Through the end of September, there have been 173 IPOs, raising $45.7 billion. The value raised in the first three quarters was 46.5% greater than the same period last year, and...

LinkedIn acquires employee engagement platform Glint LinkedIn, the social network for the working world, has announced an acquisition as it continues to work on expanding the ways that people already on the platform use it. It has acquired Glint, a startup that provides employment engagement...

Square has launched a consumer lending product San Francisco-based payments company Square is moving into consumer lending with the launch of a new service, dubbed Square Installments, which allows customers of its small-business clients to take out a point-of-sale (POS) loan from Square to pay...

Hard Brexit The German Economic Institute in Cologne said today that a "hard" Brexit would hit German exports to the U.K., um, hard. If there is no EU-U.K. trade deal, tariffs would kick in and the U.K. and Germany would be hit particularly forcefully, with the automotive sector bearing the...

Google Appeal Google has until tomorrow to file an appeal against its $5 billion Android antitrust fine in the EU, and it is reportedly set to do so. The fine relates to Google's use of its control of Android to favor its own search and other services. Google is already appealing a separate...

Papa John's Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management is reportedly considering a takeover of Papa John's, which is up for sale. The activist hedge fund also owns a 13% stake in Wendy's. Apparently more bidders are interested in Papa John's, in which founder John Schnatter still holds a nearly 30%...

Virgin Galactic Richard Branson promises his Virgin Galactic outfit "should be in space within weeks, not months." But wait, there's more: "And then we will be in space with myself in months and not years… We have got a very, very exciting couple of months ahead." Your moves, Elon and Jeff. CNBC

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"It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely a probable conclusions from a mathematician and demand a strict demonstration from an orator." - Aristotle's Ethics