___ Weak manufacturing threatens consumer-fueled growth NEW YORK (AP) — Manufacturers are facing stunted growth amid the damaging trade war between the U.S. and China, and that has some on Wall Street worried that it will crimp the consumer-fueled economy. Factory output has been slowing all year, and suffered its first contraction in three years…


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Western Digital Corp. WDC, -1.43% announced Thursday afternoon that it has agreed to sell its IntelliFlash business to private company DDN, part of an effort to divest standalone storage-systems businesses. Western Digital did not disclose the price DDN will pay. The company said it is also looking at strategic options for its ActiveScale storage-system business.…


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There are more than 500,000 stores on the ecommerce platform Shopify stores and growing. While that's evidence that the world of ecommerce is booming, it's also more saturated than ever, meaning it can be difficult to make your business and products stand out. If you've got an ecommerce business or are thinking of starting one,…


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One person died at a Facebook office building in Menlo Park on Thursday, according to the Menlo Park Police Department. The cause of death is thought to be suicide by jumping from the fourth floor of 162 Jefferson Drive, a Facebook building known as MPK 27.


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It is, perhaps, a sobering sign of our times that cyberattacks – data breaches or ransomware assaults – don’t automatically undermine a company’s value as either a business or as a partner. While studies suggest that, on balance, the share value of breached companies underperform the market, corporations with strong fundamentals have not only recovered…


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