Second Opinion

In Second Opinion, Softbank becomes Uber's largest stakeholder, Bank of America loses its second head of tech and media banking in less than a year and Amazon shortlists its choices for a second headquarters to 20. Among the finalists are Chicago, Austin and Columbus, Ohio. 

In Second Opinion, Johnson & Johnson's diabetes care business is attracting Chinese interest in a sale that could fetch up to $4 billion, North and South Korea will march as one team at the Winter Olympics and Apple plans to pay $38 billion in repatriation taxes.

In Second Opinion, General Electric considering breaking itself up after profits tumble, Nestle is selling its U.S. candy brands to Nutella maker Ferrero for nearly $3 billion and the Dow briefly crosses the 26,000 mark.

In Second Opinion, China escalates crackdown on cryptocurrency trading, Ryanair wants to buy parts of Austrian airline Niki and venture capital investment in Europe surged 26.9 percent in 2017 thanks to UK startups' mega-rounds.

In Second Opinion, Wells Fargo plans to close 800 more branches by 2020, Netflix was 2017’s top non-game app by revenue and the U.S. ambassador to Panama resigns, saying he cannot serve under President Trump.

In Second Opinion, Dropbox files confidentially to go public in the U.S., Moneygram is testing out a cryptocurrency and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is now an Ecuadorian citizen.

In Second Opinion, Nestle reportedly plans to pick a buyer for its U.S. chocolate business by the end of the week, JP Morgan says that Amazon may be on track to be a $1 trillion company and actor Mark Wahlberg was paid $1.5 million to reshoot scenes for "All The Money in the World" while co-star Michelle Williams was paid a total of less than $1,000 for the reshoots.

In Second Opinion, Kodak launches an ICO, causing the stock to leap 44 percent, Harvard Endowment's Gupta is named chief investment officer of the New York Public Library and Dell wants to turn your laptop into jewelry.

n Second Opinion, GoPro is putting itself on the block and hiring JP Morgan to do it, the Google engineer who was fired by the company for suggesting men were better than women for certain tech jobs, has filed a discrimination lawsuit against Google and Oprah Winfrey brings down the house at the 2018 Golden Globes while rumors suggest she may be thinking of running for U.S. president.

Second Opinion closes out the week with news that Spotify's chief content officer is out, the Justice Department is investigating the Clinton Foundation and David Letterman's first guest on his new Netflix talk show is former President Obama.