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Southwest drops the one thing customers actually liked

Southwest Airlines built its business on being an airline that allowed its employees, even encouraged them, to have personality. Before it dropped its in-flight magazine during the Covid pandemic, that publication had a section featuring stories about flight attendants, pilots, gate workers, and other personnel going above and beyond for passengers. You might get a

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T-Mobile customers will soon lose a 35-year-old wireless service

T-Mobile is shutting down a service it has offered customers for 35 years. The move comes as the carrier has recently been phasing out older offerings across its wireless lineup.  For example, earlier this month, T-Mobile revealed that it is discontinuing a plethora of older phone plans that launched almost 15 years ago, including Magenta,

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Microsoft cuts thousands as Xbox faces rude awakening 

Microsoft’s (MSFT) latest restructuring just sent a painful message to employees and investors at the same time. The company is tightening its workforce again as it looks to manage weaker pockets of the business while keeping its massive AI push on track.  The timing couldn’t have been more difficult.  Microsoft shares have lagged other megacap

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New jobs data reveals troubling wave of cuts at retail and restaurant chains

The U.S. job market is still expanding, as it appeared after the much-hyped May jobs report, which reported the addition of 172,000 jobs to the US economy. But, as TheStreet covered, many of those jobs were concentrated in the travel and leisure sector.  And now, the latest June report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics,

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