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Juana Lancaster is a news writer for News Day Laura. She writes about politics, health, business, parenting, and finance. When she's not writing, she's usually watching The West Wing or getting lost in the world of Harry Potter.

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Gen Z drives a fifth of office Christmas parties to go alcohol-free this year

The annual office Christmas party is normally a time of decadence, where colleagues get better acquainted with one another with the help of music, food, and, crucially, a lot of alcohol. This year’s office Christmas parties, however, are set to do away with the booze and instead become afloat with mocktails and artisanal sodas, as […]

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A mom of two put £4000 into her own muesli brand—now it’s turning over £28 million and she goes on vacation twice a month

What would you do if you had a six-figure salary? Perhaps you’d never cook another meal again or indulge in a monthly Thai massage and a Soho House membership to unwind from the stress that comes with being at your A game. Here at The Good Life you don’t have to imagine what life at

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Warren Buffett’s BofA stock-selling spree surpasses $10 billion

Warren Buffett’s conglomerate has added another zero to its haul from a months-long selling spree of Bank of America Corp. stock. In its 14th round of disposals, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. eclipsed $10 billion of total proceeds from whittling its stake in the second-largest US bank, a regulatory filing on Monday shows. Buffett, 94, began paring

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Foreign election meddling extends to Congressional races: Intel officials

It’s not just the presidential election: Foreign governments are targeting House and Senate races around the country in their effort to meddle with American democracy this election year, intelligence officials warned Monday. Russia, China and Cuba have all launched influence operations designed to help or hurt candidates in specific congressional races. Without giving specifics about

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Martha Sazon leads the Philippines-based finance superapp GCash with a majority-female 94 million user base

With a user base of more than 94 million—larger than the population of Germany—GCash is arguably the most popular Filipino finance app. Launched in 2004, GCash began as an SMSbased money-transfer service catering to the Philippines’s large underbanked population. Users could deposit cash into their ewallets for a small transaction fee at convenience stores and

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Capital for Asia, rooted in Asia: How Singapore’s Jenny Lee wants to rethink venture capital

Singaporean venture capitalist Jenny Lee’s track record features the biggest names in Asian tech, including e-commerce giant Alibaba, ride-hailing companies Didi and Grab, and phone maker Xiaomi. Yet Lee’s path to becoming one of Asia’s most prominent venture capitalists started in the hangars of Singapore’s air force, as an engineer working on fighter-jet engines. That

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Google must open Android app store to rivals as punishment for illegal monopoly, judge rules

A federal judge on Monday ordered Google to tear down the digital walls shielding its Android app store from competition as a punishment for maintaining an illegal monopoly that helped expand the company’s internet empire. The injunction issued by U.S. District Judge James Donato will require Google to make several changes that the Mountain View,

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