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Live Nation Settles With DOJ Over Ticketmaster Antitrust Violation

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Live Nation Entertainment reached a deal with the government, resolving concerns that the company had violated a 2010 antitrust settlement. However, the DOJ has been investigating the possibility that Live Nation has violated the terms of its agreement by possibly coercing people to use Ticketmaster.

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Amazon Gains Ground In Holdout Markets

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Not every product launches smoothly (RIP Fire Phone ), not every new endeavor delivers (Amazon’s flirtations with offering a travel platform ended abruptly) and not every new market immediately yields. There were some structural issues that we had to face,” Mariengela Marseglia , Amazon’s country manager for Italy, told The Times.

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Former Restaurant Execs Seek $230M For SPAC

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Greg Golkin, managing partner at Kitchen Fund, is named as president. Tastemaker’s chief financial officer is Chris Bradley, managing director of Mistral Equity Partners, a private equity firm whose portfolio owns El Pollo Loco and Jamba. “We Listed as co-CEOs are David Pace, chairman of the board at Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Inc.

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Small Firms Find Tight Labor Market A Costly Challenge

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While entrepreneurs continue to reflect record-level optimism, their top concerns are increasingly including the tight labor market and the importance of retaining staff in such a climate. “And that’s the way the market economy works, for better or worse.” How did small businesses fare in job growth last month?

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Canada’s Lightspeed POS Inc Raises $179M In IPO

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National Bank Financial, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Overall, the firm has a small and medium-sized business focus and its platform can be utilized for different functions including inventory management and point of sale (POS). s 2010 U.S. Lightspeed’s shares finished up trading at C$19, up 19 percent.

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Goldman Invests $40M In LeanTaaS Healthcare Software Firm

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Founded in 2010 by Mohan Giridharadas, LeanTaaS is a predictive analytics company that taps data science to improve healthcare provider performance, using cloud-based solutions to solve problems like resource utilization. The money will also be used to hire of key leaders in engineering, data science, product management, sales and marketing.

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EU To Approve FIS Acquisition Of WorldPay For $35B

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The European Union is going to approve the Fidelity National Information Services Inc (FIS) $35 billion dollar bid for payments outfit Worldpay with unconditional antitrust approval, according to a report by Reuters. FIS is an American company that creates banking and asset manager software as well as outsourcing financial services.

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