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Why Korean parents are having their kids get plastic surgery before college
Business Insider - 28 Nov 2015 16:11
South Korea is the plastic surgery capital of the world -- to such an extent that parents will often pay for their children to have double eyelid surgery before they start college. A plastic surgeon in Seoul's Gangnam Di...
How To Define Your Organization's Values
Forbes - 28 Nov 2015 06:27
Values are more than mere beliefs.They determine how an enterprise will pursue its purpose.
ESPN's decline in subscribers sends Disney stock tumbling
New York Post - 28 Nov 2015 04:46
Disney served shareholders a big turkey going into Thanksgiving with the disclosure that its biggest growth driver, ESPN, shed 3 million subscribers in its most recent fiscal year. That news -- buried in a late Wednesday...
Energy-rich Russia pays little attention to climate change
Business Insider - 28 Nov 2015 16:29
MOSCOW (AP) -- When forest fires roared through Siberia this summer, so vast that the smoke blocked vast Lake Baikal from satellite view, Russian officials blamed the blazes on arsonists and disorganized fire crews. Envi...
U.S.'s Stimulus of the Economy Has Failed
Barron's - 28 Nov 2015 08:17
The government's extraordinary effort since 2008 to get the economy moving has failed. Maybe it's the government's fault.
Cards Against Humanity Makes $71,000 by Selling Nothing
NBC News - 28 Nov 2015 07:35
The politically incorrect card game had a Black Friday deal like no other this year.
Iran unveils upgraded model for oil contracts
Business Insider - 28 Nov 2015 16:14
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran unveiled a new model of oil contracts Saturday aimed at attracting foreign investment once sanctions are lifted under a landmark nuclear deal reached earlier this year and said U.S. companies wo...
6 Tech Stocks With Yields Up to 7.3%
Barron's - 28 Nov 2015 08:18
Go-go investors have tossed high-yielding techs overboard in favor of Facebook and Alphabet. But there's still plenty of money to be made in Seagate, Garmin, HP Inc., and Qualcomm.
Receipts data: 7-inch Amazon Fire tablet, not iPad, won Black Friday
Venture Beat - 28 Nov 2015 23:27
The 7-inch Amazon Fire tablet was a Black Friday hit, according to receipts data collected by Info Scout. Info Scout makes a series of apps that allow users to photograph and manage sales receipts. The 8GB version of the...
Adobe: Thanksgiving and Black Friday online sales up 18%, iOS numbers almost triple Android's
Venture Beat - 28 Nov 2015 21:18
Thanksgiving and Black Friday online sales set a new record in 2015: $4.47 billion, up 18 percent over last year. More specifically, $1.73 billion was spent on Thanksgiving and $2.74 billion was spent online on Black Fri...
5 things US techies need to know about Japan's social media ecosystem
Venture Beat - 28 Nov 2015 21:00
GUEST: Despite having the world's third largest economy, Japan's social media ecosystem is perhaps the most unique in the developed world — and among the most difficult for Silicon Valley to understand, let alone capit...
Anonymous collective hackers bring down Iceland sites in whaling protest
Venture Beat - 28 Nov 2015 20:11
Activist hackers from the Anonymous collective have claimed responsibility for bringing down five government websites in Iceland in a protest against whale-hunting by the North Atlantic nation. The sites, which included ...
UN Climate Change Conference: The Babel Tower Comes To Paris
Forbes - 28 Nov 2015 20:09
When I began teaching as Visiting Professor in the MBA program at the University of Hong Kong in February 2012 I had entitled the course “Asia in the New Global Order”. At the first class one of the students asked, �...
American Airlines Computer Program Botches Flight Attendant Holiday Schedules
Forbes - 28 Nov 2015 19:35
A malfunction by an American Airlines bidding system program provided at least 200 legacy US Airways flight attendants with December schedules --including holiday schedules -- they don’t want to fly, provoking an angry...
The Future Of Work Isn't Just About Big Technology Companies
Forbes - 28 Nov 2015 19:31
Many times when we (myself included) speak about the future of work, the conversations tend to skew toward larger companies. However, the reality is that smaller companies are actually poised to do quite well when we ...
Product leaders: You need to stop saying no
Venture Beat - 28 Nov 2015 19:00
GUEST: The consensus approach for building a great product is to craft a vision and then jealously guard that vision from outside interference as you drive it home. Product thought leaders have a simple strategy for this...
News Guide: What to know about December legislative session
News Observer - 28 Nov 2015 18:52
The Michigan Legislature returns Tuesday for two or three weeks of voting with a number of issues on tap before it adjourns for the year. …
Bitcoin Exchange 'Ramps-Up' OBITS Cryptocurrency Profits For Future Buyback
Forbes - 28 Nov 2015 18:40
The cryptocurrency exchange behind the recently launched OBITS currency initiative, CCEDK, is increasing the future payouts derived from profits and fees generated through user registrations on OpenLedger and other assoc...
26-Year-Old In Flip Flops Scores $1M Shark Tank Deal
Forbes - 28 Nov 2015 17:01
Jeff Overall explains the stunning evolution of how he started producing homemade GoPro (GPRO) camera filters while a student at UC Santa Barbara. In four years, his company PolarPro expanded into making a variety of act...
The Week Ahead: Time To Get a Jump On The January Effect?
Forbes - 28 Nov 2015 16:22
The stock market was generally higher last week led by the 2.3% gain in iShares Russell 2000 (IWM). This was impressive compared to the 0.4% gain in the S&P 500 or the 0.14% loss in the Dow Industrials. The Dow Transport...
A booming Wall Street business is about to be tested for the first time (LC, ONDK)
Business Insider - 28 Nov 2015 16:09
The marketplace-lending business has boomed in the post-financial-crisis era, with loan volumes swelling and the leading companies going public. The growth of the market — which matches borrowers with investors, who pu...
This Startup Raised $5 Million To Buy From Artisans, Not Factories
Forbes - 28 Nov 2015 16:04
Building an efficient supply chain in rural India is tricky --- to say the least.