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Home Depot has benefited as the public-health crisis’s social disruptions prompted people to spend more on home improvement. Photo: michael reynolds/EPA/Shutterstock…

Instacart’s long-awaited filing comes as competition increases and consumer habits shift. Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images…

Duke Realty Corp. DRE 7.52% on Wednesday rejected the nearly $24 billion buyout offer from the warehousing giant Prologis Inc., PLD -0.35% calling the unsolicited offer insufficient. “We believe the latest offer, virtually unchanged from its prior proposals, is insufficient in that regard,” Duke Realty said in a statement, adding it will have no further comment on the proposal at this…

At least 15 advertising-technology companies had sufficient information to detect that publisher Gannett Co. GCI 3.19% provided inaccurate data to advertisers for more than nine months, but the firms failed to connect the dots and alert their clients, according to researchers who studied the incident.Gannett, owner of USA Today and news outlets in 46 U.S. states, said it unintentionally provided the wrong information in online ad auctions, due to an error that affected…