Rental property manager Vacasa just nabbed $319 million in Silver Lake-led funding that makes it travel's newest unicorn

Alex Nicoll | The company manages more than 23,000 vacation properties and bought Wyndham Vacation Rentals for $162 million last week.

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Citizens Bank has inked exclusive Xbox and iPhone financing deals — and wants to do more. It shows how the regional lender is seeking new avenues of growth amid digital pressures.

Shannen Balogh | Citizens Bank's partnership with Microsoft to finance Xbox sales is a way to earn merchant fees and reach more potential banking customers.

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AT&T survived round one with activist hedge fund Elliott. Now, the company has to fill a board seat and weigh spin-offs under the fund's close watch.

Bradley Saacks,Casey Sullivan | AT&T said it will add two board members, cut costs, and split the CEO and chairman roles once current head Randall Stephenson leaves.

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These 9 startups are betting that your gut is healthcare's next frontier, with millions in backing from investors like Marc Benioff and Vinod Khosla

Erin Brodwin | Despite uBiome's failure, investors aren't giving up on the microbiome. Vinod Khosla and Marc Benioff are among the top names backing startups focused on the bacteria in your gut.

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An activist is running for California governor so he can run deliberately false ads on Facebook

Rob Price | Facebook exempts political ads from fact-checking — and a left-wing activist from San Francisco plans to take advantage of this.

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Meet 22 of the most important executives shaping the future of marketing technology

Lauren Johnson | From cloud giants to a growing crop of startups, these are the people leading the future of marketing technology.

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How Satya Nadella's leadership style catapulted Microsoft to a trillion-dollar valuation — and what you can learn from it

Sherin Shibu | Microsoft is valued at over $1 trillion. Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO, used the growth mindset to change company culture.

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It's Bill Gates's birthday. When I interviewed him, he showed me how his brain works so differently than anyone else I've ever met.

Drake Baer | Bill Gates is a walking encyclopedia. Here's what I learned from an encounter with the brilliant billionaire.

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Trump reportedly tried to stop Amazon from winning a $10 billion cloud deal, but experts say Microsoft won on its own merits

Paayal Zaveri | President Donald Trump's scrutiny of Amazon's bid for the federal cloud contract turned heads, but Microsoft the contest won on its own, experts say.

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