Twitter's latest financial update was both earlier and worse than expected. A quarterly report leaked to investors showed the company brought in $436 million in revenue in the first three months of 2015, up from $250 million in the previous-year period. Analysts had expected sales to almost double. Twitter faced a tighter market for advertising dollars. Shares plummeted by almost 21 percent.Takeda Pharmaceutical, Japan's largest drugmaker, agreed to pay $2.4 billion to patients who had sued the company alleging that it failed to inform them fully of the cancer risks associated with Actos, a diabetes treatment. Takeda said the settlement will reduce financial uncertainties and that it remains committed to Actos. For-profit education company Corinthian Colleges said it would close its remaining 30 campuses. The decision was made days after it was fined $30 million by the U.S. Department of Education for lying about job-placement rates. Corinthian had already sold 50 schools to a loan-financing company. The latest closures affect about 16,000 students. Tyson Foods, the country's biggest chicken supplier, said it would stop feeding its birds antibiotics used to treat humans. Critics say the treatments cultivate drug-resistant bacteria. The announcement comes two months after McDonald's, a Tyson customer, said it will stop using chickens raised with human antibiotics. Profit at Ford Motor slipped 7 percent in the first quarter ending March 31 as the automaker converted factories to build a new version of its F-150 pickup, the best-selling vehicle in the U.S. Deliveries of the truck were 40 percent below year-earlier levels.
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