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Radical Redesign: Kumiko Otsuka Moves to Update Furniture Retailer
Forbes - 6 Apr 2016 23:42
Rocking Japan Inc., Kumiko Otsuka unseated her founder father in a bid to update their furniture retailer.
Obama Just Struck A Blow Against Corporate Tax Dodging
The Huffington Post - 6 Apr 2016 04:08
The U.S. Treasury Department's new rules making it harder for U.S. companies to perform “corporate inversions” that allow them to escape taxes were hailed Tuesday by Democratic politicians, including President Barack...
Mrs. Green's supermarket workers won't unionize
New York Post - 6 Apr 2016 03:50
One of the Big Apple's most powerful supermarket unions is licking a new battle scar. Local 1500 of the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union was forced to turn tail and quietly back away from its aggressi...
Stocks edge mostly lower in early trading
L.A. Times - 6 Apr 2016 16:13Here's why airlines ask you to raise the window shades for takeoffs and landings
Business Insider - 6 Apr 2016 15:15
Ever wonder why airplane passengers are asked to lift up their window shades before takeoff and landing? A flight attendant explains why they do this. Produced by Will Wei Follow TI: On Facebook
How Ted Cruz clobbered Donald Trump in Wisconsin
Business Insider - 6 Apr 2016 15:18
AP Sen. Ted Cruz scored a momentous victory Tuesday over Donald Trump in Wisconsin — a win that puts a dent in the Republican frontrunner's hope of clinching the nomination before the July convention. In a speech to su...
Sexual Harassment At Work: Why Women Stay Silent
The Huffington Post - 6 Apr 2016 23:59
I once managed an account that was the largest and most prestigious that my firm had ever won. When I got the assignment, I was so excited for the opportunities this account would bring, so long as I managed the project ...
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron Is Under Fire Over His Father's Offshore Fund
Time - 6 Apr 2016 06:48
The U.K. prime minister has become embroiled in fallout from the Panama Papers leak
Bitcoin Start-Up Gets an Electronic Money License in Britain
The New York Times - 6 Apr 2016 06:01
Britain's top financial regulator has granted a license to Circle, a company based in Boston that will work with Barclays, the British bank.
DOJ sues to block Halliburton's takeover of Baker Hughes
New York Post - 6 Apr 2016 16:50
The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to halt Halliburton from merging with Baker Hughes, arguing the merger of the No. 2 and No. 3 oil services companies would hurt competition in the sector. The deal w...
Market Snapshot: U.S. stocks pause ahead of Fed minutes
Market Watch - 6 Apr 2016 15:48
U.S. stocks struggled to advance on Wednesday, switching between small gains and losses ahead of the release of minutes from the Federal Reserve's most recent policy meeting.
Brokers giving retirement advice must prioritize clients' best interests, new rules say
L.A. Times - 6 Apr 2016 15:48Walgreens Unlikely To Make Rite Aid's PBM A Priority
Forbes - 6 Apr 2016 14:01
Walgreens Boots Alliance will obtain a pharmacy benefit manager once its acquisition of Rite Aid closes in the second half of this year but Walgreens CEO Stefano Pessina said the smaller EnvisionRx PBM would be too small...
New Starbucks Roastery in New York City Will Be Its Largest Store Ever
Time - 6 Apr 2016 05:45
It'll be all about the roasting and the brewing
The Wall Street Journal: Amazon, Microsoft may take stake in HERE mapping service
Market Watch - 6 Apr 2016 04:44
Germany's premium car makers Audi AG, BMW AG and Daimler AG, which owns Mercedes-Benz, are in talks with Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. that could lead to the tech giants taking minority stakes in the HERE digital m...
Workers in New York and California are in a massive economic experiment
Business Insider - 6 Apr 2016 04:27
Joe Raedle/Getty Images In a less cynical age, the Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that each of the 50 states that make up the U.S., "may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social a...
Montana invites PayPal after firm spurns North Carolina
News Observer - 6 Apr 2016 23:58
Montana officials sought to capitalize on North Carolina's loss and announced Wednesday that they would be courting PayPal to open an operations center. …
LinkedIn thinks it can tell you how likely you are to get a job (LNKD)
Business Insider - 6 Apr 2016 23:58
Applying for a job can be anxiety-inducing, but LinkedIn has come up with a way to tell you what your chances of getting a job could be — and what you can do to improve them. A new patent awarded to LinkedIn on Tuesd...
The Moneyologist: Is it OK to skimp on a tip when you order takeout?
Market Watch - 6 Apr 2016 23:58
A reader is concerned that he is being a Scrooge when he buys food-to-go.
Hacking The Career: What Organizations Should Do
Forbes - 6 Apr 2016 23:44
One of the most disruptive changes we've seen in business over the last decade is the end of the traditional "career."
Turkey is investigating leak of 50 million citizens' data
Venture Beat - 6 Apr 2016 23:10
Reuters (Can Sezer) — Turkey is investigating how hackers have posted online the identity data of some 50 million Turks, including what they said were details about the president and prime minister, after what is belie...
Steam is censoring some torrent sites in chat
Venture Beat - 6 Apr 2016 22:25
Users of Valve’s Steam video game platform are finding some of the links they mention in chat automatically censored by filtering software, reports TorrentFreak. Specifically, affected websites include several — thou...