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Aug 6, 2014

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Rebuilding Gaza after Israel’s attacks will cost billions. But that’s simply to restore Gaza to a prison refugee camp. What would it take to create a true Gaza economy? Plus, we look at the calculus a consumer facing company like Walgreens makes when it’s considering an inversion, particularly when it factors in the effects of adverse public pressure.

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Meet the woman behind Ikea's living wage calculator

by Krissy Clark
Aug 6, 2014
Ikea will use an MIT project to set wages in its stores across the U.S.
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Corner Office

Yelp's CEO on the end of the professional critic

by Kai Ryssdal
Aug 6, 2014
Yelp turned ten this year, while posting a profit for the first time.
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The NCAA's top conferences break out

by Kai Ryssdal
Aug 6, 2014
If approved, a new proposal will give the Big 5 conferences more autonomy.
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It's all monkey business for Wikimedia

by Kai Ryssdal
Aug 6, 2014
Wikipedia denies a photographer's request to delete a photo since a monkey took it
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Can a rebuilt Gaza build an economy?

by Mitchell Hartman
Aug 6, 2014
Repairing the damage will cost billions. But Gaza still won't have an economy.
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Why Walgreens stepped back from the inversion brink

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Aug 6, 2014
One reason Walgreens chose not to move to the UK: it's a consumer-facing company.
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Tesla teases Reno with a Gigafactory

by Tracey Samuelson
Aug 6, 2014
Tesla has started building, but the factory and jobs could still move.
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Rebuilding Gaza after Israel’s attacks will cost billions. But that’s simply to restore Gaza to a prison refugee camp. What would it take to create a true Gaza economy? Plus, we look at the calculus a consumer facing company like Walgreens makes when it’s considering an inversion, particularly when it factors in the effects of adverse public pressure.

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