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A woman holds her resume at TechFair LA, a technology job fair, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 26, 2017.

HIRE CALLING

With its new hiring software, Google threatens a vast new market

A McDonald's restaurant sign is seen lit Thursday evening, April 20, 2006, on Chicago's near North Side. The Oak Brook, Ill.-based McDonald's reported reported Friday, April 21, 2006, first-quarter profits fell 14 percent because of a sizable tax benefit it received in the same period a year ago, but continued its momentum with solid sales growth. New menu items, later hours and cashless payment options have keyed its U.S.-led resurgence in the last three years. The fast-food chain hopes to keep it going with new products released this year, including premium coffee and the newly released Asian chicken salad. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

DO YOU WANT SANDALS WITH THAT?

McDonald’s new line of clothing isn’t as terrible as you’d expect

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, left, and Amazon.com and Blue Origins founder Jeff Bezos attend the commemoration for the upcoming anniversary of the 1969 mission to the moon and a gala for Aldrin's non-profit space education foundation, ShareSpace Foundation, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday, July 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz)

JACKED BEZOS

When did Jeff Bezos get so cool?

Chairman of Dalian Wanda Group Wang Jianlin meets with chairman of Sunac China Holdings Ltd Sun Hongbin in Beijing, China, July 10, 2017. Picture taken July 10, 2017. CAIXIN/Yang Yifan via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA. - RTX3B3VL

LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU

Meet the American property tycoon set to control China’s answers to Netflix and Disneyland

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