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Vanishing workforce weighs on growth
Washington Post - 6 Apr 2013 23:55
Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, while dimming the prospects fo...
Lorenzo claims opening MotoGP pole
CNN - 6 Apr 2013 23:47
World champion Jorge Lorenzo hails MotoGP's new qualifying format after claiming pole position for Sunday's season-opening race in Qatar.
The Most Expensive Cities To Own A Car
Business Insider - 6 Apr 2013 21:02
Where is the most expensive place to own a car? REAL incomes have stagnated in many rich countries and family budgets are feeling the pinch. In Britain fuel costs 50% more than it did in 2007. But petrol prices are just ...
REPORT: FBI Looking At Ex-Assistant Who Blew Whistle On Rutgers Coach
Business Insider - 6 Apr 2013 23:56
The FBI is looking at whether Rutgers University was extorted by a former assistant coach who blew the whistle on fired coach Mike Rice's abuse of student athletes, The New York Times reports. An unnamed university offic...
12 Fashion Models Who Fell On The Catwalk
Business Insider - 6 Apr 2013 18:56
It has to be incredibly daunting to strut down the catwalk as a fashion model. All eyes are on you as you stomp in spiky stilettos, showing off the designers' latest collections. Most of the time, things go smoothly and ...
How to free HTML5 from the browser with packaged apps
Venture Beat - 6 Apr 2013 18:00
Guest Post For nearly two decades, developers and CIOs have taken for granted the "simplicity" that a Windows-dominated world provided to software development. With one operating system capable of reaching the vast major...
Everything You Need To Know Before Watching 'Mad Men' Season 6
Business Insider - 6 Apr 2013 16:30
Season 6 of 'Mad Men' premieres on Sunday, and many of us need a refresher course on key plot points. From one character's psychedelic adventures to another's dramatic suicide, there's a lot to remember. We've got you co...
Owners can begin to fix problems by attending board meetings
L.A. Times - 6 Apr 2013 06:58
If the board ignores eyesores, homeowners can sue to force it to take action or elect a new one that understands the need for maintenance.Question: There's an overall deterioration in our homeowners association, and we'r...
These States Are Making The Most Off Beer
The Huffington Post - 6 Apr 2013 23:30Nigeria police: 12 missing after delta attack
Miami Herald - 6 Apr 2013 23:27
Militants in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta ambushed a group of police officers as they sat stranded in a boat in the region's winding creeks, leaving at least 12 "missing" in the most serious attack in months in a re...
The Disgusting Truth About How Often American Women Actually Wash Their Bras
Business Insider - 6 Apr 2013 23:23
Michelle Lam is the CEO of True&Co., an online-only lingerie company. She believes that many women are wearing bras that are the wrong size and that they don't get the right sizes because they hate the embarrassing exper...
Nigeria police: 12 missing after delta attack
News Observer - 6 Apr 2013 23:22
Militants in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta ambushed a group of police officers as they sat stranded in a boat in the region's winding creeks, leaving at least 12 "missing" in...
How Employers' New Health Care Policies Penalize People For Being Fat
The Huffington Post - 6 Apr 2013 23:21China's Trina Solar eyes return to profit in H2
Reuters - 6 Apr 2013 23:12
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Google Says 'Asymmetric Warfare' Against 'Trolls' Costs $30 Billion A Year (GOOG)
Business Insider - 6 Apr 2013 14:50
Google -- along with Blackberry and other tech companies -- has asked the FTC to pay greater attention to patent trolls, who embroil companies in expensive litigation over bogus claims on the ownership of new technologie...
Best Buy Copies J.C. Penney and Wall Street Applauds?
Forbes - 6 Apr 2013 21:47
Best Buy is going to install branded Samsung shops in 1,400+ of its stores, and has indicated it will further explore the store-in-a-store approach recently touted by J. C. Penney as a remedy to the continued slide in it...
Have spare time, dev skills? See what open-source projects need your help with this flowchart
Venture Beat - 6 Apr 2013 21:40
We all know open-source software is a good thing and good people give back to their communities. This site just makes it really easy to start following through on those values.
Committing to your developers will help you keep them
Venture Beat - 6 Apr 2013 21:30
Guest Post When companies do find, recruit and hire the talent, most aren't taking the right steps to empower their developer talent to learn, grow, and thrive. Developers are people too, you know.
Why security belongs to developers first
Venture Beat - 6 Apr 2013 20:30
Guest Post Developers aren't security experts, and most security experts aren't developers. There needs to be a better mutual understanding -- and earlier cooperation -- between the two parties to better eradicate securi...
How to get your ops folks to understand agility (make them read this, for starters)
Venture Beat - 6 Apr 2013 19:30
Guest Post Once development is ready to release an application, how do we support the next stages of the release process with equally agile operations?
GitHub Pages migrating to a new, more secure domain
Venture Beat - 6 Apr 2013 18:13
You don't have to do anything about it, but file this item under "good to know."
Facebook built a mobile OS just like Google built a desktop OS: in the eyes of their users
Venture Beat - 6 Apr 2013 17:54
Facebook Home isn't a mobile operating system. But normal users who buy or download the Home experience won't know or care. They'll suddenly have Facebook phones that look, feel, and behave totally different from Android...