Hershey's bet on in-housing is yielding sweet results, with overhead costs down 25%, output up fivefold and over $4 million saved in agency fees

Tanya Dua | The agency handles everything from research and creative development to production and media planning and buying for brands in Hershey's portfolio.

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This cold email from a Twitter employee to the head of HR got the sender her dream job. Here's exactly why the message stood out among a sea of requests.

Shana Lebowitz | Twitter HR chief Jennifer Christie received a cold email from an employee interested in changing roles. Christie explains why the note impressed her.

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uBiome convinced Silicon Valley that testing poop was worth $600 million. Then the FBI came knocking. Here's the inside story.

Erin Brodwin | Read how uBiome cut corners on its science and put the company's growth before patients' best interests.

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A merger between satellite-TV giants Dish and DirecTV could save around $2 billion a year, and Wall Street analysts say the deal could finally happen

Ashley Rodriguez | For a deal between Dish and DirecTV to work, AT&T might need to take a back seat in the pay-TV businesses it spent billions to acquire, analyst says.

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GitHub has a new COO, and she's an open source software expert who just sold her last startup to VMware

Rosalie Chan | GitHub, a Microsoft company, hired Bitnami co-founder Erica Brescia as its first COO to scale the company — weeks after VMware snapped up her startup.

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Meet the JPMorgan banker with no technical expertise who’s now in charge of one of the biggest data projects on Wall Street

Dakin Campbell | Casper's role shows how important data is to Wall Street's plans to hold on to customers and markets, despite the upheaval brought by technology.

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Hedge-fund managers are overwhelmed by data, and they're turning to an unlikely source: random people on the internet

Bradley Saacks | Platforms like Quantopian and QuantConnect give anyone the ability to look for investment signals in data, and funds can license the best ones.

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Inside Salesforce's $15.7 billion takeover of Tableau, which came together at Marc Benioff's San Francisco mansion and almost died last week amid wild market swings

Becky Peterson | How personal texts from Marc Benioff and a session at his San Francisco mansion led to the biggest acquisition in Salesforce's history.

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WATCH: Executives from JPMorgan and BNY Mellon tell fintech founders the best ways to partner with large banks

Meghan Morris | Huw Richards and Lucien Foster discussed how banks have been working with fintech and emerging technologies, and how those companies can stand out.

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