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You may joke that the week you went on vacation flew by far too quickly, but if you stop and think about it, that week actually seemed to last much longer than one involving the drudgery of your day job.

O'Reilly, who hosted The O'Reilly Factor, was fired by Fox last week following news about Fox settling sexual - harassment cases involving him for millions of dollars.

At an event co-sponsored by Keds and LOLA last week in honor of Women's Equality Day, Whelan spoke about her millennial mentor and why she schedules monthly meetings with her.

A trustee of defunct Tokyo bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox sold more than 35,000 bitcoin, worth about $ 400 million at the time, to pay off creditors, according to details of the sale published by a company trustee last week.

Following last week's purchase of Vancouver - based web - enabled sports eyewear maker Recon Instruments by chip - maker Intel Corp. for a reported $ 175 million, I spoke to Recon co-founder and CEO Dan Eisenhardt about the deal, what it means for both companies, and the opportunity in the wearables market.

Last week, a study published by the Kauffman Foundation using census data from the past 50 years, revealed some eye - opening statistics about the number of immigrant - led companies in America.

On Thursday, the Ninth Circuit denied the government's emergency appeal to lift the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on Trump's immigration order issued last week by a federal judge in Seattle, indicating in its opinion that Trump's past comments about a «Muslim ban» can be used as evidence for discrimination.

Amazon posted a web page about the program last week that was first spotted by tech news site TechCrunch.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up by more than 800 points since Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen spoke about the economy last week.

Some news leaked out of Intel last week by a side channel when industry consultant Patrick Moorhead posted about a recent meeting he'd had with execs at the chip giant.

That ruling was upheld by a three - judge panel of the 9th Circuit in San Francisco last week, raising questions about Trump's next step.

Failure to meet targets and pressures on funding prompted the downgrade last week by Moody's, which said Tesla was likely to raise more than $ 2 billion in new capital, partly to cover about $ 1.2 billion in convertible bonds due by March 2019.

Last week, Gowdy said on Fox News that he had proof of a «systematic, intentional» effort by the White House to withhold certain documents from Congress about the attack.

Like looking in a mirror: Last week we wrote about Confluent, a new open - source software startup launched by a group of LinkedIn engineers who raised first - round funding from both LinkedIn (GS) and venture capital firm Benchmark.

«It is possible that the acquisition of COL is the first step in separating UTX into two entities: a Commercial Operation and a Defense and Aerospace Group,» Howard Rubel, equity analyst at Jefferies, said in a note last week as speculation about a deal being struck by the two companies increased.

Although women have historically run behind men in business, they're upbeat about women's future as owners or workers, according to a survey released last week by Bank of America.

A surprise mass layoff that last week chopped about 40 % of its staff was followed by an only slightly less surprising announcement on Sept. 23 that Fairfax Financial was an interested buyer.

His defense appeared undermined by a video that surfaced last week in which he bragged about kissing and groping women without their permission.

The company saw its share price plummet to an all - time low last week before experiencing a rebound, apparently triggered by a false rumor about a tie - up with News Corp..

But unlike the 2011 rout, sparked by the eurozone debt crisis, the sudden collapse of global equities markets that began last week is all about China — which makes it all the more unnerving since few have a good grasp on how the world's most important emerging economy actually works.

Colbert started the monologue by playing a clip of Trump speaking with reporters on Air Force One last week about the $ 130,000 payment Cohen made to the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels in October 2016.

The fee — which accounts for about $ 1.50 to $ 3 of a each fare and is not shared with drivers — was raised by between 15 and 50 cents per ride last week, depending on the city.

Authorities in Baton Rouge last week thwarted a planned attack on police officers days after the shooting of Alton Sterling, a 37 - year - old black man who was killed by police in an encounter that was largely captured on video and raised widespread concerns about the officers» actions.

Last week, Re / Code reported that an at an all - hands company meeting, interim CEO Jack Dorsey responded to an employee question about diversity hiring by saying that company should and will set diversity goals.

That judgment, about whether the government should get involved in the entire P2P throttling debate, will likely be made by the end of the summer, but Bell certainly could not have helped its assertion that congestion is a huge problem by opening its own (non-P2P) video download store last week.

In the last week, a member of Pruitt's press team, Michael Abboud, has been shopping negative stories about Zinke to multiple outlets, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the efforts, as well as correspondence reviewed by The Atlantic.

A story about Randall Jordan - Aparo, an inmate who died after he was blasted with chemicals by prison guards while begging for medical attention, was published in the Miami Herald last week.

Powell, in a Senate Banking Committee hearing last week, said he doesn't think the bill would weaken supervision for foreign banks when asked about the matter by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D - OH).

Failure to meet targets and pressures on funding prompted Moody's downgrade last week, saying that Tesla was likely to raise more than $ 2 billion in new capital, partly to cover about $ 1.2 billion in convertible bonds due by March 2019.

Tesla acknowledged its semiautonomous Autopilot system was engaged by the driver in the seconds before a fatal crash last week, raising more questions about the safety of self - driving technology on public roads.

After hitting at over 35 times early last week, gold prices fell sharply by Thursday, bringing the ratio down to about 33.9.

Last week, that view was challenged by escalating concerns about a potential military conflict with North Korea.

Last week, Laura Ingraham, Fox News» queen of snark, tweeted that David Hogg — a 17 - year - old who survived the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., and has been among the eloquent advocates for gun control — «whines about» being rejected by four universities...

Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page, in his last week on the job, is taking the government to court in a bid to have Ottawa release information about the impacts on federal jobs and services from $ 5.2 billion in cuts announced in last year's budget.Photo by Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press / Files

(CNN) About 500 people may have been affected by a suspected chemical attack last week on Syria's rebel - held town of Douma, according to the World Health Organization.

Yaniv Erlich, a geneticist at Columbia University, was far from surprised at last week's news that police may have found a serial murderer and rapist, California's long - sought Golden State Killer, by tapping a public DNA database to match crime scene DNA: Erlich had cautioned in a June 2014 article about genetic privacy, published in Nature Reviews Genetics, that GEDmatch, the website that was reportedly used, could allow for such «genealogical triangulation.»

And a study by Mara Cecilia Ostfeld that was published last week in the journal Political Behavior similarly concluded that «as White Democrats learn about Democratic outreach to Latinos, they become less supportive of Democrats.»

With the stock market worried about growth in China, McDonald's echoed comments made by Starbucks (SBUX) last week, that Chinese consumers are continuing to spend, at least when it comes to eating out — sales were «positive» in China, said McDonald's.

Last week, the ratio of spot gold to the Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index (XAU) spiked to about 20.8, a level that is by far the highest extreme in history.

Last week, we wrote about a housing trend identified by the real estate brokerage Redfin.

However, a statement by the Conservative campaign spokesman last week about Novak has been contradicted by what's emerged from the Ottawa courthouse since then.

And with real exports of goods growing in Q3 at about a third of the pace estimated by the BEA, and real imports of goods growing faster in the quarter than what the agency had anticipated, it seems that trade may have been a drag on the economy in Q3 rather than a contributor as depicted in last week's GDP report.

Last week, research compiled by Matrix Solutions revealed that only 10 % of Americans are excited about original content from NYT, and the Times» Newfronts announcements seemed to show a willingness for the paper to step further into digital content.

While these Silicon Valley tech companies set about fixing Puerto Rico's problems, nurses working with the American Federation of Teachers have accused Trump's administration of «neglect,» while Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut last week called for an investigation into the relief efforts by the government.

It is back to break - even from when I first recommended it and has outperformed the sector by significant about (28 %)-- it's also up 6.5 % from when I posted the original update last week:

NEW YORK (CNN / Money)- Ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina will get a severance package worth about $ 21.4 million, but stands to reap another $ 21 million after she was forced out by the computer maker's board last week, a newspaper reported Saturday.

-LSB-...] Last week's S&P / Case - Shiller Home Price Indices report showed strong positive gains in home prices, but those positive gains are threatened by rebounding foreclosure activity in about one - third of the 20 markets tracked in the report.

Last week, I posted a piece by Molly Graham that talked about scaling your company.

Buzz scores are worked out by asking if respondents have heard anything positive or negative about a brand in the last two weeks, through advertising, news, word - of - mouth or friends and family.

Speculation the takeover would not be completed has been fired up by a series of setbacks, including early concerns about capital gains tax owed to the government of Sierra Leone by Sierra Rutile shareholders, an extended review by German anti-trust regulators, and then last week the revelation of «geotechnical risks» at the target's tailings dams.