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Insurers Seek Big Premium Boosts

Big health plans stung by losses in the first few years of the U.S. health law’s implementation are seeking hefty premium increases for individual plans sold through insurance exchanges in more than a dozen states.

Microsoft to Streamline Smartphone Business

Microsoft will lay off 1,850 workers and take an impairment and restructuring charge of approximately $950 million as it takes further step in dismantling the mobile-phone operations it acquired from Nokia.