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Two of President Donald Trump’s favorite strongmen — Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — warmly shook hands with one another, smiled broadly and laughed when they were seated together Friday at the G-20 summit in Argentina. Tweet Twitter quickly labeled the Putin-MBS palm slap […]

One of the most useful books Slack co-founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield has ever read on leadership was one he eventually gave to his entire executive team. After reading it, those execs gave the book to their teams until at least 70 people in his company had the book in […]

Airbnb has already changed the way people travel. Now it’s aiming to bring the sharing economy to housing, with the introduction of Backyard. Airbnb’s design studio, Samara, announced the project on Thursday. The Backyard initiative will protoype new ways that homes can be designed and built to accommodate flexible and […]

If you’ve stayed at a Starwood Hotel property in recent years, your personal information may have been compromised. Marriott International announced Friday that hackers had copied data from the reservation database for its Starwood Hotels brand, with unauthorized access dating back to 2014. “The company has not finished identifying duplicate […]

CNBC’s Jim Cramer questioned Friday how Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg could possibly stay at the social media company following a recent expose from the New York Times. “I thought it was one of the most devastating stories I’ve read,” said Cramer, who has recently been critical of Sandberg […]

The United Auto Workers union said General Motors‘ decision to idle plants in the U.S. and Canada shows the new trade deal between the United States, Canada and Mexico is not strong enough to stop the flow of jobs across the Mexican border. GM is “thumbing its nose” at the […]

President Donald Trump says a new trade pact being signed by the United States, Mexico, and Canada is a “model agreement that changes the trade landscape forever.” Trump spent more than a year pushing the leaders of Canada and Mexico into agreeing to a rewrite of North American trade rules. […]

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Marriott – The hotel chain revealed that hackers had access to the Starwood brand guest reservation database since 2014, and could access a variety of personal data that in some cases included payment information. The breach predates Marriott’s deal to buy […]

When OPEC reached a deal with Russia and other producers in 2016 to end a two-year oil price slump, it was a relatively straightforward affair. The alliance announced it was slashing output, each country agreed to a specific production quota and international oil prices rallied about $7 a barrel. Heading […]

Marriott International said on Friday the Starwood guest reservation database was breached, potentially exposing information on about 500 million guests. The company said its investigation showed that an unauthorized party had copied and encrypted information, and that it had taken steps towards removing it. This story is developing. Please check […]