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The Supreme Court is steering clear of polarizing ideological disputes in the new session that opens Monday—and instead will focus on nuts-and-bolts cases such as criminal prosecution and intellectual property while it remains short one justice.

Cloud computing has thrown computer makers into a forbidding landscape where prospective customers have incentives to rely on external service providers rather than buying hardware. But some have found a key ally in one of the biggest cloud providers, Microsoft.

Two Sigma Investments spent the last 15 years honing its quantitative approach to investing. Now, it’s turning its number-crunching prowess on new prey: insurance.

Shareholder proposals focusing on environmental, social and policy issues accounted for half of all proposals at the largest 250 U.S. companies this proxy season, overtaking proxy access as the main target of shareholder activism in 2016, according to the latest research by ProxyMonitor.org.

Merrill Lynch agreed to pay $12.5 million to settle allegations that it failed to stop 15 large, faulty trades that allegedly caused stocks, including Google Inc. and Diageo PLC, to move abruptly.

From a charred Hebrew scroll, researchers resurrected one of the earliest known versions of the Old Testament, using a new digital reconstruction technique that may prove invaluable in revealing words from other previously unreadable finds.

Hawaiian Airlines and FedEx are trying technologies that promise to improve communication systems connecting aircraft with satellites, but the moves also raise cybersecurity issues.

Major U.S. companies have pledged to offer money, technology and training worth about $650 million to address the global refugee crisis, saying the enormity of the problem requires more than government action.

A former sales manager for LG Electronics in California filed suit against LG and Samsung Electronics, claiming the two Korean companies have an agreement not to recruit each other’s Silicon Valley employees, which has the effect of suppressing wages.

The Chinese venture-capital firm closed two funds aimed at deals as the environment for funding in the country cools.

Employees in most business sectors are backing the Democratic presidential candidate over the Republican, a reversal from the 2012 election, according to an analysis.

Federal contractors that require U.S. government security clearances for their employees face new insider threat monitoring rules that will require them to keep track of their workers and what they are doing outside of the job.

A survey of about 900 organizations found while 69% of respondents listed an active-shooter situation as one of the biggest threats to workplace safety, 39% said their organization doesn’t have a communications plan in place to deal with such an incident.

Dell Inc. hopes its pending $60 billion acquisition of EMC Corp. will make the combined company a favored supplier in the rapidly growing market for cloud computing, where companies tap software programs via the internet.

Intuit, the maker of TurboTax and QuickBooks, posted 8% revenue growth in its fiscal fourth quarter, while issuing first-quarter guidance below Wall Street estimates.

Few companies enjoy the kind of dominance Intel does in chips for the computers found in data centers. But competitors keep trying to pry open its server stronghold, with IBM the latest to brandish a new tool.