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A mom's permission slip that 'respectfully asks that you let her kids be kids' went viral
Business Insider - 23 May 2016 03:02
Flickr / Fernando Mafra One mom’s Facebook post has gone viral after she shared a permission slip she wrote in order for her sons to be able to climb trees. Julie Holcombe of Yardley, Pennsylvania, recently wrote on Fa...
5 signs you're going to be extraordinarily successful
Business Insider - 23 May 2016 16:26
There are certain traits that extremely successful people share. Here are five traits that high achievers tend to demonstrate in daily life. Produced by Eames Yates. Original Reporting by Jeff Haden. Follow BI...
Five Tech Firms Hold More Than A Third Of Cash In Corporate America
Tech Times - 23 May 2016 04:31
More than a third of cash in Corporate America is in the hands of five tech companies -- that's $1.68 trillion in cash or marketable securities. In the cash race, Apple, Alphabet, Cisco Systems, Oracle and Microsoft are ...
Easy Solution For New Overtime Pay Rule
Forbes - 23 May 2016 15:30
The federal overtime rules are changing on December 1, 2016. The old rule was that a salaried worker making over $23,660 need not be paid for overtime. That threshold is moving up to $47,476 annually, with further adjust...
How to plan a low-cost vacation to Cuba
Miami Herald - 23 May 2016 10:00
For the first time in more than 50 years, Americans are allowed to vacation in Cuba with few restrictions. Since the 1960s - when President John F. Kennedy instituted a full economic embargo in response to the country's ...
Bid Prices For Yahoo Lower Than Expected
Tech Times - 23 May 2016 05:06
Is the estimated range of bids for Yahoo, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, too low for the actual market value of the ailing web pioneer? Industry insiders weigh the matter.
Economic Report: Markit PMI shows U.S. manufacturers stagnant
Market Watch - 23 May 2016 15:57
U.S. growth appears to have picked up in the second quarter, but the latest Markit survey of American manufacturers fell to a weak 50.5 in May and signaled little improvement in a key segment of the economy.
Fight for U.S. media empire heats up
CNN - 23 May 2016 04:07
Viacom fired back at its Chairman Emeritus Sumner Redstone on Saturday. The move came after Redstone ousted Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman from the board of the company that controls both Viacom and CBS. Sponsored: Drivers W...
Fed Funds At Two Percent Or More? Get Used To The Idea.
Forbes - 23 May 2016 23:46
In the last few weeks, a parade of Fed speakers has sounded very hawkish about rate hikes in very explicit fashion, some of them pretty clearly saying that the Fed is going to hike in June and that there are going to be ...
A Bank That Wants To Disrupt Itself
Forbes - 23 May 2016 16:00
Danske Bank, Denmark’s largest bank, got its wake-up call in 2013, when it launched a P2P payment smartphone app that blew past its expectations for adoption, garnering the same number users in its first year that woul...
McDonald's Is Putting the Squeeze on Agency Profitability, Making the Ad Industry Uneasy
AdWeek - 23 May 2016 03:51
The ongoing McDonald's creative review initially included all three of the ad industry's largest holding companies. But WPP made headlines earlier this month for bowing out (leaving incumbents Publicis and Omnicom in the...
How coding kick-started my sales career
Venture Beat - 23 May 2016 00:00
GUEST: I read an article last week titled "Please don't learn to code" by a guy called Basel Farag. The article raised some valid points: coding on its own doesn’t solve problems; coding won’t always get you a job; n...
'The story is false': ESPN, Riot Games deny $500M League of Legends esports TV deal
Venture Beat - 23 May 2016 23:06
Earlier today, a story broke from esports news site PVP Live claiming that ESPN is in talks to spend $500 million for League of Legend’s television-broadcasting rights. That is not the case. ESPN and Riot Games have bo...
Millennials, Say Goodbye To Feeling Stuck: 3 Tips To Overcome Setbacks
Forbes - 23 May 2016 22:27
We all get stuck at points in our careers. Sometimes it can feel impossible to know which action to take next especially when your resources- time, money, energy, are running out. Learn these 3 techniques to help you ove...
This Stock Has A 3.61% Yield, Sells For Less Than Book, and Insiders Have Been Buying
Forbes - 23 May 2016 22:08
In this series, we look through the most recent Dividend Channel ''DividendRank'' report, and then we cherry pick only those companies that have experienced insider buying within the past six months. The officers and dir...
How To Give Your Readers Goosebumps (And Why You Should)
Forbes - 23 May 2016 21:41
Giving your readers goosebumps is a good thing when it comes to your content marketing campaign. Here's why and how.
Noteworthy Monday Option Activity: BMY, CALM, XPO
Forbes - 23 May 2016 21:24
Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (NYSE: BMY), where a total of 34,811 contracts have traded so far, representing approx...
What is the Potential Market for Enterprise Software?
Forbes - 23 May 2016 21:16
The market size for a particular market is the dollar volume of sales that actually occurred in a given year. The market potential is the volume of sales that would occur if every company that could buy a particular ente...
Week Ahead In Earnings: Insiders Sold At Costco, Best Buy & Tiffany
Forbes - 23 May 2016 14:45
Here's what's coming for the week of May 23.
Digital Manufacturing Path To Future With Proto Labs
Forbes - 23 May 2016 21:02
Smoke does not rise from the stacks of a digital manufacturing factory, at least not much compared to the old smokestacks that come to mind for America’s glory days of making things. Granted, news for manufacturing has...
Structural change in China painfully slow
livemint.com - 23 May 2016 20:59
The big long-term story in China is that it is moving away from dependence on investment-led growth towards a more consumption-oriented economy. But that change is likely to be very slow
Dish TV reports strong subscriber additions, but issues subdued guidance
livemint.com - 23 May 2016 20:52
Arpu growth, subscriber additions and Ebitda margin performance in the coming quarters will determine the course of the stock