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Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Continuum Display Dock To Cost $99
Bidness etc. - 11 Oct 2015 14:09
Speaking to ComputerWorld, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has confirmed the price of its recently announced "Continuum" display dock. The display dock, which is priced at $99 plus tax, was unveiled during Microsoft'...
You can now get a flu vaccine via a 'jet injector,' which shoots it straight into your arm without a needle
Business Insider - 11 Oct 2015 16:30
A futuristic-looking jet injector can shoot this year's flu vaccine into your arm without a needle. Though it may look like something from a sci-fi movie, the PharmaJet Needle-free Jet Injector is inspired by vaccination...
UConn mac and cheese incident spawns fundraisers
Business Insider - 11 Oct 2015 20:22
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Members of the UConn community have begun a couple of fundraisers hoping to offset the negative image generated by a video of a student berating food service workers who refused to sell him jalape...
Meet the advanced professionals too discouraged to work
New York Post - 11 Oct 2015 04:30
More than 94 million adult Americans are no longer counted as being in the labor force, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' September data. This means that 94.6 million...
IRS Scandal Narrative Still Inspires Passion
Forbes - 11 Oct 2015 00:52
As something of an amateur historian, my biggest question about the IRS Scandal, which I sometimes refer to as Teapartygate, is how prominent it will be in our historical memory in a few decades. There are certain cont...
There's a good reason 'The Walking Dead' creator doesn't use the word zombie
Business Insider - 11 Oct 2015 22:59
We interviewed Robert Kirkman - the creator of "The Walking Dead" - at New York Comic Con 2014. Produced by Matthew Stuart and Alana Kakoyiannis. Special thanks to Kirsten Acuna. Follow BI Video: On Facebook Join the con...
Conservatives always make this same fundamental error about immigration and employment and it drives economists crazy
Business Insider - 11 Oct 2015 16:25
UK Home Secretary Theresa May has done us all a huge favour with her speech on immigration at the Conservative Party conference today, because it gives Britain the opportunity to learn how immigration actually affects ...
The Simple Formula for Creating Profitable Business Opportunities
Forbes - 11 Oct 2015 16:19
Consistency + Trust = Profitable Opportunity
The tech industry is starting to ask a crucial follow-up question about driverless cars
Business Insider - 11 Oct 2015 15:56
Driverless cars are no longer a question of "if" or even "when?" Instead, the tech industry is starting to ask a crucial follow-up question: How? I spent a couple days last week at Code/Mobile, a conference for tech exec...
NewsWatch: Fed officials seem ready to deploy negative rates in next crisis
Market Watch - 11 Oct 2015 15:00
Fed officials appear open to employing negative rates in the next crisis, a turnaround from their position during the financial crisis.
Americans Are Feeling Pretty Glum About Obama and the Economy
The Atlantic - 11 Oct 2015 14:45
Citizen’s views of their finances haven’t improved in the past couple of years. Some blame the president.
Britain's tech community links up with charities to help migrants with mobiles
Venture Beat - 11 Oct 2015 05:10
(By Joseph D’Urso, Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Frustrated by the lack of technological solutions to the European refugee crisis, a group of London-based techies has started working with charities to find ways to he...
Has Airbnb Gone Soft?
Forbes - 11 Oct 2015 04:51
Remember when Airbnb was poster boy for the disruption of traditional industries? The latest corporate personification of the American dream, formed literally as AirBed & Breakfast when its co-founders were looking to pa...
Riviera Maya's Tourism Growth Focuses On Luxury, Sustainability While Seeking To Improve Local Life
Forbes - 11 Oct 2015 04:47
Riviera Maya is balancing growth with sustainability and a focus on luxury, adventure and experiential travel.
Selling Your Middle Market Business -- Federal Tax Considerations For Residents Of Zero-Tax States
Forbes - 11 Oct 2015 03:25
Sellers of businesses who are residents of zero-income-tax states can reduce their federal income tax burden through a long-used type of trust typically used by residents of high-income-tax states. At first blush, "zero"...
Think You're A Risk-Taker? Try Marrying An Entrepreneur
Forbes - 11 Oct 2015 02:41
I hurried down the stairs to answer the doorbell, as quickly as I could, given that I was nine months pregnant. As I opened the door, I was met by a man looking sheepishly at my heaving stomach. “I’m the bailiff with...
Germany, EU Deny Report On European Solidarity Tax
IBTimes - 11 Oct 2015 01:30
BERLIN/BRUSSELS/LIMA
Nonprofit raises $2.6M to get low-income adults career ready
New York Post - 11 Oct 2015 00:42
David Bowie would be proud of these Young Americans. They are the successful grads and students -- so far more than 10,000 of them -- of the nationwide nonprofit Year...
Paper: State employees paying more for piecemeal insurance
News Observer - 11 Oct 2015 23:59
A supplemental insurance contract for all state employees might cost less and provide better coverage for such services as dental and vision insurance, but contracts are fragmented among more than 100 state agencies plus...
Cambridge Innovation Center makes big bet on Miami tech
Miami Herald - 11 Oct 2015 23:53
The well-known center for startups will be housed at the UM Life Science & Technology Park CIC Miami plans to open in the fall of 2016, although some parts may open in the spring The news is part of a much larger wave of...
Disney Reboots 'Star Wars' Video Games
The New York Times - 11 Oct 2015 23:53
As anticipation has mounted for the restart of the "Star Wars" movie series, Disney has also overhauled how "Star Wars" video games are made.
Mitigating the UAS Risk
Forbes - 11 Oct 2015 23:48
Given the number of hobby-shop small unmanned aerial vehicle systems (UAS)—more popularly known as drones—taking to the skies and the altitudes at which they are being spotted by civil aviation pilots, it’s probabl...