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WSJ.com 

How Michael Dubin Turned a Funny Video Into $1 Billion

The founder of Dollar Shave Club, Michael Dubin, introduced his subscription model for selling razors with a slapstick YouTube video. Now he is selling Dollar Shave Club to Unilever for $1 billion cash.

TheRepublic.com 

Colon labors has tough time on muggy day at Wrigley Field

CHICAGO — Bartolo Colon had a tough time on a hot, muggy day at Wrigley Field. Anthony Rizzo homered twice off Colon, Kyle Hendricks pitched 6 1/3 scoreless innings and the Chicago Cubs beat New York 6-2 Wednesday to take two of three in a rematch of last year’s NL Championship Series. With the Mets

«New York Daily News» 

Cops find mom who abducted her baby from Bronx foster care

A 6-month-old baby was illegally taken from a foster care agency in the Bronx by her mother Wednesday, sparking an hours-long search that ended with the child’s safe recovery in Brooklyn, police said.

WSJ.com 

WADA Reinstates Rio Anti-Doping Lab

The World Anti-Doping Agency said Wednesday that it had lifted the suspension of the Rio lab that will be the center of drug testing for Olympic athletes at next months’s Summer Games.

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

Nairo Quintana cracks on Alpine stage, loses time to Chris Froome

Despite being a specialist in mountain stages, Quintana surrendered to the defending champion in the first Alpine leg of this year’s Tour — won by Russian all-rounder Ilnur Zakarin on Wednesday. Froome made the most of a brutal final ascent to the artificial lake of Finhaut-Emosson to tighten his grip on the race and take another step toward a third title in four years in cycling’s biggest event. While Quintana struggled, Froome reasserted his superiority over his direct rivals in the sizzling heat that hit the Swiss Alps. Читать дальше...

TheRepublic.com 

While US basketball readies for Rio, Popovich preps for 2020

LAS VEGAS — Mike Krzyzewski is working with his team when suddenly Gregg Popovich enters the gym with his own guys looking to play ball. Krzyzewski vs. Popovich. Five-time NCAA champion vs. five-time NBA champion. It’s a mega matchup that would look good on one of the giant marquees that light up Las Vegas. Except

BusinessInsider.com 

Inside the $1 billion dollar deal for Dollar Shave Club

YouTube/Dollar Shave Club

Unilever is buying the on-demand razor delivery service Dollar Shave Club in a validation of the startup's novel approach to selling men's grooming products.

The deal price — reportedly around $1 billion — would be about five times Dollar Shave Club's expected sales in 2016. Dollar Shave Club isn't profitable.

That is a punchy premium. 

Dollar Shave Club, or DSC, delivers razors to your home each month with a subscription model, and as Business Insider's Dennis Green wrote earlier today... Читать дальше...

«Albany Democrat Herald» (democratherald.com) 

Suspect charged in bat attack

Shawn Kenneth Oard, 34, was arraigned Wednesday in Linn County Circuit Court after he was arrested Tuesday on allegations he beat his grandmother with a bat and then drove to his girlfriend's trailer to try and kill his father.