In Sports Authority bankruptcy, customer e-mail data commands hefty sum and other top stories.

• In Sports Authority bankruptcy, customer e-mail data commands hefty sum

  

  When Sports Authority Inc. said “everything must go,” it meant everything – including its customers’ personal information. The Colorado sporting goods retailer, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March, auctioned this week its intellectual property, including the Sports Authority name, its e-commerce site and about 114 million customers’ files and 25 million email addresses. Dick’s Sporting Goods won with a $15-million bid. The trove of customer data, experts say, could help Di..

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• Tesla crash could hurt sentiment on driverless cars

  

  In this image from video, Frank Baressi speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his home in Palm Harbor, Fla. Thursday, June 30, 2016. Baressi, 62, was the driver of the truck that was hit by a Tesla that Joshua D. Brown, of Canton, Ohio, was operating in self-driving mode, and who was killed in the May 7 accident in Williston, Fla. Baressi said the driver was "playing Harry Potter on the TV screen” at the time of the crash and driving so quickly that “he went so fast through ..

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• Reports Show Increase in Corn Planting, Adding Volatility to Agriculture Markets

  

  CHICAGO—U.S. farmers are planting more corn and soybeans even as the nation’s stockpiles swell, according to twin government reports Thursday that are set to stoke more volatility in agriculture markets. If Midwest weather cooperates, farmers this year are expected to raise one of the largest corn crops on record after switching fewer acres than...

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