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Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook Reacts To Employees "Criminal Treatment" Claims With Three Words
Bidness etc. - 11 Jun 2015 18:22
A 2013 Class action lawsuit is making rounds after the initial court filing was made public yesterday, highlighting the fact that at least two Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) Store employees directly complained to Chief Executi...
The Wall Street Journal: China's Guotai Junan Securities plans $4.8 billion IPO
Market Watch - 11 Jun 2015 06:05
Guotai Junan Securities receives regulatory approval to raise as much as $4.8 billion in an initial public offering in Shanghai, paving the way for what could be China's largest IPO in five years.
EBay and PayPal Revise Their User Agreements, and Hit a Nerve
The New York Times - 11 Jun 2015 03:01
New York law enforcement officials wrote the companies' general counsels this week that the new policy, allowing phone calls for polls or marketing, "raises issues" under consumer protection laws.
3D Print Your Favorite Ford Vehicle -- With New Ford 3D Store
Forbes - 11 Jun 2015 22:09
Ford announced that it is the first automaker to open a one-stop 3D digital shop – the Ford 3D Store. With the help of Turbosquid, Ford fans can use 3D printing technology to make their own models of Ford vehicles or ...
How A Market Share Loss In Storage Systems Could Impact NetApp's Stock Price
Forbes - 11 Jun 2015 19:49
torage giant NetApp has seen some weakness in product sales over the last few quarters, with its services division driving much of the company's top line growth. The company recently reported a 7% year-over-year decline ...
Google Inc Leads $42 Million Funding Round For Duolingo
Bidness etc. - 11 Jun 2015 18:14
Language- learning start-up Duolingo announced on Wednesday that it had raised $45 million in funding led by Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) Capital, the search giants' growth phase investment branch. The figure more than doub...
Apps make luxury hotels even more luxurious
New York Post - 11 Jun 2015 03:56
When it comes to luxury at your fingertips, sometimes there's nothing like a smartphone. A slew of swanky hotels, including the Four Seasons and the Ritz-Carlton have launched mobile apps...
Why So Many Management Strategies Become Fads That Fade Away
Forbes - 11 Jun 2015 23:25
In the 1980’s when the Japanese invaded the U.S. with high quality products, everyone thought that quality circles would enable us to compete. Then in the late 80’s Total Quality Management was a business philosophy ...
The First-Ever Sum Of All The DNA On The Planet Will Boggle Your Mind
Fast Company - 11 Jun 2015 20:00
You'd need 1 billion trillion supercomputers to store all that code. If you were to store all the information contained in all the DNA of every organism on Earth, you would need to find a pretty big data-farm. It would r...
Facebook highlights the rising power of Europe's game industry
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 18:05
Facebook recently hosted a summit for 150 CEOs of European gaming companies that demonstrated just how important that industry has become in this region.
Facebook open-sources Infer, a code-verification tool that squishes bugs before mobile apps ship
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 17:59
Facebook has announced that it's open-sourcing Infer, a code verification tool used to identify buggy mobile code before it ships.
Jobless Claims Remain Low, Retail Sales Jump; More Pressure On The Fed
Bidness etc. - 11 Jun 2015 17:53
In the week of June 6, claims for unemployment benefits totaled 279,000, up 2,000 than a week before, while economists polled by Bloomberg had a median forecast of 275,000. That said, claims maintaining a sub-300,000 lev...
Facebook Inc "Buy" Button For Shopify Signals Big Move Into E-Commerce
Bidness etc. - 11 Jun 2015 18:09
With the announcement to add a "Buy" button for business owners who have pages on Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB), the company shows that it plans to improve its game. It has collaborated with merchants registered with Shopify...
Steve Jobs on the Remarkable Power of Asking for What You Want
inc - 11 Jun 2015 22:30
To achieve your greatest goals, sometimes all you have to do is ask.
NewsWatch: The Fed fears lifting interest rates, ex-insider says
Market Watch - 11 Jun 2015 18:00
The Fed should have already started hiking interest rates but his being held back by a fear of liftoff, said Athanasios Orphanides, a monetary policy expert who worked at the U.S. central bank and was head of the Central...
Here's everything that Apple is doing in Europe (AAPL)
Business Insider - 11 Jun 2015 17:54
The world's most valuable company doesn't just confine its activites to America. It's also working hard in China and emerging markets, and has an extensive network of factories and acquisitions in Europe. Apple has an im...
Zimbabwe is paying its citizens $5 for 175,000,000,000,000,000 Zimbabwe dollars
Business Insider - 11 Jun 2015 17:50
Zimbabwe's central bank announced the demonetization of the Zimbabwe dollar will occur from June 15 until the end of September, according to China's state-run newspaper, Xinhua. "The banking public should visit their b...
Questions to Answer in the Age of Optimized Hiring
Time - 11 Jun 2015 17:09
Do you trust data more than your instincts?
DuPont Spinoff Chemours May See Yield Top 5.8%
Barron's - 11 Jun 2015 13:58
Investors could value Chemours at an even higher yield initially than Tronox, its likely closest peer.
Lease clause allowing landlord to enter without notice is null
L.A. Times - 11 Jun 2015 06:33
Question: I rent a room in a house, as do two other tenants. We use the bathroom, kitchen and living room as shared space. The landlord comes in the house on a regular basis, though she does not live there. She hangs out...
'Tomorrowland' is Disney's worst-performing movie ever
New York Post - 11 Jun 2015 04:42
Considering George Clooney's mea culpa to Sony for making last year's "Monuments Men," Disney is in for a doozy of an apology for "Tomorrowland." The Clooney-helmed film, which is still...
Sorry, Diane, That's BS
TPM - 11 Jun 2015 18:18
I don't expect much more to come of this Diane Rehm/Sanders brouhaha, mainly because Rehm has such profound by-in and good will from media and political figures in Washington; because Sanders himself isn't making a big d...