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Zillow to acquire Naked Apartments for $13M Rental platform will complement StreetEasy’s sales focus From left: Spencer Rascoff and Naked Apartments ’ Joe Charat and Jay Signorello In a move that will boost its presence in New York City, Seattle- based Zillow Group said today that it agreed to buy the rental platform Naked Apartments for $13 million in cash. The deal, which is expected to close in the next few weeks, gives Zillow a second brand in New York City along with StreetEasy, which the real estate giant acquired for $50 million in 2013. With Naked Apartments , a platform that connects nestseekers with brokers and landlords, Zillow is gaining a hyper- local rental database to complement StreetEasy’s sales focus. The deal is “ natural strategic fit ” for both StreetEasy and Zillow, Susan Daimler, StreetEasy’s general manager and vice president of Zillow Group New York, said in a statement. She said Zillow would continue to grow both brands “under one roof.” Naked Apartments ...

One day in August, 2016, the financier Carl Icahn made an urgent phone call to the Environmental Protection Agency . Icahn is one of the richest men on Wall Street, and he has thrived, in no small measure, because of a capacity to intimidate. A Texas- based oil refiner in which he had a major stake was losing money because of an obscure environmental rule that Icahn regarded as unduly onerous. Icahn is a voluble critic of any government regulation that constrains his companies. So he wanted to speak with the person in charge of enforcing the policy: a senior official at the E.P.A. named Janet McCabe . Icahn works from a suite of offices, atop the General Motors Building , in midtown, that are decorated in the oak-and-leather fashion of a tycoon’s lair in a nineteen-eighties film. During that decade, Icahn made his reputation as one of the original corporate raiders , pioneering the art of the hostile takeover and establishing himself as a human juggernaut—a pugnacious deal machine ...