Airbnb Inc. is close to submitting to go public in a move that would underscore a surprising handball for the house-sharing giant and the IPO market. The company plans to file IPO paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission later this month, laying the groundwork for a potential listing before …
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The wild ride of Eastman Kodak Co. produced what could be the largest contribution on record for a religious nonprofit, the product of a well-timed gift from Kodak board member George Karfunkel. In a securities submission last week, Mr. Karfunkel and his wife, Renee Karfunkel, said they donated 3 million …
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DUBLIN – Ireland is a nation of saints, scientists and the status quo. This small island in the northwestern periphery of Europe is ruled by two old enemies: the right-wing Republican Fianna Fáil party and the fellow Christian-Democratic Fine Gael, which since independence in 1922 on opposite sides of ‘ …
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How contagious is someone who has contracted COVID-19 – showing no symptoms yet – and what makes them asymptomatic while other people suffer so terribly from the disease? This study, published this week in the medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine, provides one theory for the first question. It isolated 303 …
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