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In Thursday's Second Opinion, WeWork is raising $780 mln, Buffett’s Dayang Group takes a $30 mln stake in VC-backed Indochino, and Facebook buys Masquerade to challenge Snapchat’s rainbow vomit.
In Second Opinion, ex-Continental CEO Bethune leads the fight over United Airlines’ board, China plans to lay off five to six million worker, and Burberry becomes the focus of takeover talk.
Tennis
In Monday's Second Opinion, TPG is said to write down its J. Crew stake by 84 percent as revival hopes dim, the average Wall Street bonus fell 9 percent last year, and Maria Sharapova says she failed a drug test at the Australian Open.
Rio de Janeiro
To close out your week, Second Opinion has news that Microsoft considered buying Slack for $8 billion, Thomson Reuters may sell its IP & science unit in parts, and Brazilian police question ex-president Lula da Silva in Petrobras corruption scandal.
Subway, Transit, Metro
In today's Second Opinion, Romney and McCain denounce Trump as a danger to democracy, Yahoo is exploring a sale of $1 bln to $3 bln in “non-core assets,” the company’s CFO said, and New Jersey Transit forecasts nightmare train strike scenario.
Space, NASA
In today's Second Opinion, ex-Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon dies in a car crash a day after he was indicted for conspiracy, startup Oscar Health lost $92.4 million in its New York health insurance business last year, and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly returns to Earth two inches taller after living in space for a year.
In Second Opinion, Amazon is in talks to buy some RadoShack stores, the fear that keeps small business owners awake at night and Harper Lee, who wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird," will publish her second novel in July
In Second Opinion, Box shares soar in their first day of trading, a drone carrying methamphetamine crashes in Mexico, Expedia buys Travelocity and Cerberus is in talks to buy Digital First Media, which owns the Denver Post.
In Second Opinion, eBay says it will cut 2,700 jobs and put its enterprise unit up for sale, Google is preparing to sell mobile phone plans and whether the New England Patriots be disqualified from the Super Bowl.
In Second Opinion, the Twitter accounts for the NY Post and UPI were hacked, Leucadia National gives FXCM a $300 mln cash infusion and Mitt Romney has conflict of interests problems with Solamere.
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