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British movie theater operator Cineworld has agreed to buy American counterpart Regal Entertainment for $3.6 billion, creating the world’s second-largest cinema operator. Cineworld said Tuesday the deal would give it a meaningful footprint in the U.S.–the biggest box office market–and create a company with more than 9,000 screens. It added that the combined group’s scale […] More

With a healthy economy and shoppers savvier than ever (and wisely unwilling to leave the warm comfort of their pajamas for sales deals), Amazon has once again made a boatload of cash on Black Friday. Considered the biggest sales day of the year in the United States, Black Friday was traditionally a day that was […] More

Jeff Bezos has again claimed the No. 1 spot on the list of the world’s wealthiest individuals, after Amazon investors pushed the stock up more than 11% on Thursday’s strong third-quarter earnings report. Bezos, Amazon’s founder and CEO, had a net worth as of Friday morning of $91.6 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time ranking of […] More

On Thursday, Equifax made a major disclosure — the leaking of up to 143 million consumers’ personal information, including social security and credit card numbers — regarding a cybersecurity “incident.” The realization that a major credit bureau’s oopsie could result in damaged credit for much of the affected group was too much to accept for […] More

Facebook wants you to watch more video on its site – including those you can’t see elsewhere. To that end, the social network earlier this month launched a dedicated section for original video, called Watch. Now that’s being expanded with the addition of live-streamed college football games, broadcast in partnership with sports network Stadium. The deal will bring […] More

Sometimes if you fall in love with a small town, you might take home a souvenir. Well, one cannabis company loved the tiny California town of Nipton (pop. 20) so much that they decided to take home the entire thing. That’s right. American Green, Inc. announced on Thursday that they bought all 120 acres of Nipton lock, stock, and barrel […] More