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Healthcare

UnitedHealth CEO Replaced by Predecessor as Stock Plummets

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UnitedHealth Group has called in its CEO to deal with a Medicare Advantage program that’s crunching margins.

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Autos

Japanese Automakers Turn to Gas, Biofuel Engines as EV Adoption Stalls

Toyota is partnering with petroleum firms to develop carbon-neutral fuels and make them available in Japan by 2030.

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Technology

PayPal Grows a New Ads Business

PayPal is harnessing purchase data to join the ever-growing list of companies with a new offshoot advertising business.

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Patent Drop

IBM Wants Autonomous Vehicles to Do More than Just Drive

IBM’s patent aims to use self-driving cars’ idle resources, giving access to them to the riders within them.

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Industries

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Gets Bite at Major Amtrak Contract

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company has held talks with the Federal Railroad Administration about building a multi-billion dollar Amtrak tunnel.

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Healthcare

Trump Prescribes Deep Discounts for Big Pharma

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The Trump administration promised to drastically cut prescription drugs prices in the US, where the industry makes most of its money.

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Healthcare

Hims & Hers Stock Jumps On New Discount Weight-Loss Drug Offering

A loophole lets the company create a back-door offering of a generic drug before the patents of Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly expire.

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Media & Entertainment

Has Fox Turned Tubi into a Streaming Success?

The service has grown to 74 million monthly active users, a bigger audience than the Max paid-subscription platform.

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Industries

The Future is Almost Now for Flying Cars and eVTOLs

Hundreds of aviation startups are funneling billions of dollars toward what they hope will be a new form of low-emission air travel.

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Industries

Lab-Grown Diamonds? Turns Out They’re Not De Beers’ Best Friend

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De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer, said it plans to shutter its lab-grown jewelry brand LightBox.

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