02/17/2017: Total global dominance by Facebook

Segments From This Episode

• Wetzel’s Pretzels’ CEO says minimum wage increase boosts business

  by Sam Harnett

  

  Bill Phelps was surprised — and pleased — by his own data.

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• Grexit talk resurfaces as EU finance ministers meet

  

  Greece's debt problems rear up again as creditors demand more concessions.

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• Heinz Kraft bid for Unilever is the latest sign of food consolidation

  by Marielle Segarra

  U.S. food company Kraft Heinz offered $143 billion for the British-Dutch consumer goods conglomerate Unilever. Unilever rejected the proposal, but Kraft Heinz said it looks forward to reaching an agreement on the terms of a transaction. If the deal does eventually go ahead, it would be one of the largest acquisitions on record. It’s just […]

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• What was missing from Facebook’s 5,000-word manifesto

  by Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood

  

  Mark Zuckerberg’s treatise was heavy on the why, not so much the how.

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• If NASA’s mission is refocused, what will that do to climate research?

  by Jed Kim

  NASA is the government’s space agency, but not all of what NASA does is linked to space. A good portion of its work is more inward looking and has to do with our own planet — things like weather and climate change. Some Republicans are talking about rebalancing NASA’s priorities and moving away from that […]

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• The No. 1 challenge of retirement

  How to spend down the money you've saved. It's harder than you might think.

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