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Mylan, AbbVie News Shows Tax Inversion Boom Continues

The push for U.S. companies to move overseas kept investors busy Monday as Mylan agreed to buy part of Abbott Laboratories’ generic-drug business and relocate to the Netherlands. Mean while, Abbott’s former proprietary-drug unit AbbVie closed in on a deal for Anglo-Irish Shire Pharmaceuticals with its fifth offer. Abbott (ABT) will keep its branded generics business in emerging markets, but Mylan (MYL) will acquire the portion that operates in

This Data Software Can Help Soccer, Other Teams Win

When David Tenney joined the Seattle Sounders as a fitness coach in 2009, the Major League Soccer team was struggling to manage a growing mass of performance data from its players. Information from wearable devices that track everything from a player’s heart rate and central nervous system during practices, players’ input about their fatigue levels and diet, and coaches’ post-game ratings of player performance poured into the team’s offices every

Vine, Cody Johns, Bethany Mota New Advertising Stars

While big brands have always advertised on mainstream platforms using athletes and movie actors, they’re expanding onto new social platforms like Vine and featuring a new group of celebrities: Internet stars. In an increasingly mobile- and Internet-driven entertainment era, media firms and retail brands are digging their heels deeper into cyberspace to woo customers and stay relevant. “It’s the wave of the future,” FBR Capital