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Snowflake CEO Says Covid Has Shown Old Approach to Working at the Office Is ‘Nonsense'
“It’s really going to reduce the real estate footprint that companies have,” Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman told CNBC.
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Qualtrics Files IPO Papers, Aiming for Valuation of Up to $14.4 Billion After Spinning Out of SAP
Just over two years after being acquired by SAP for $8 billion, Qualtrics is set to hit the market as an independent company in the first quarter of 2021.
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Jim Cramer: Ten ‘Up Stocks' to Bet on a Year-End Rally
“I expect these 10 up stock winners to keep winning as we approach the end of the bizarre year that was 2020,” the “Mad Money” host said.
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Labor Union Wants Inspections at Tokyo Olympic Venues
Tokyo Olympic organizers and two government bodies building venues for next year’s games have until the end of the month to agree to outside inspections on construction sites. Ambet Yuson, the general secretary of the Building and Wood Workers’ International, made the request on Thursday to officials of the Tokyo organizing committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Japan Sport...
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WWII Gunner, Now 95, Surprised With Tank Ride Through Streets of Boston
The inside of a tank was Clarence Smoyer’s home, and the crew was his family. In that sense, the 95-year-old veteran returned home Wednesday for the first time since World War II. One of the last surviving WWII tank gunners, Smoyer was surprised with a ride through the streets of Boston in a Sherman tank.
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Hollywood's Diversity Push Snubs Actors With Disabilities
Eileen Grubba was working alongside other actors on a TV commercial when she realized the director’s eye was caught by her uneven gait. He started positioning her out of shots — and then it got worse. Her disheartening experience reflects the broader picture for many actors with disabilities, whose progress in Hollywood has lagged behind that of other minority performers...
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Paralyzed Ex-UConn Hoops Player Now a Curling Paralympian
Steve Emt was rolling himself up a hill to a pie shop in Falmouth, Massachusetts, when the coach of a wheelchair curling team noticed the former UConn basketball player. The shop’s name was Pie in the Sky. An interesting coincidence, Emt thought, when Tony Colacchio approached him and suggested that within a year he could turn Emt into a Paralympic...
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Singer Ed Sheeran Injured in ‘a Bit of a Bicycle Accident'
British singer Ed Sheeran has told fans via Instagram that he’s had a bicycle injury and may have to change some concert dates.
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Never Say Never: Shania Twain Finds New Voice After Illness
After becoming a global icon and one of the world’s best-selling singers of all-time, Shania Twain had to utter the scariest five words a vocalist would ever hear: “I may never sing again.” The queen of country pop contracted Lyme’s disease, which crippled her most prized instrument — her voice — and she thought her singing career was over. “It...
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Business As Usual on Miami Beach as Hurricane Irma Curfew is Lifted
As South Florida deals with the cleanup after Hurricane Irma’s passing, folks around South Florida are trying to return to some sense of normalcy.