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Here's How LinkedIn Can Benefit From Expanding Pro-Finder
Forbes - 1 Sep 2016 14:34
Recently, LinkedIn announced that it is expanding LinkedIn Pro Finder — its marketplace which connects businesses and freelancers nationwide in the U.S. The company began piloting this platform in October last year and...
Tata Motors' India Business Is Heading In A Positive Direction
Forbes - 1 Sep 2016 14:38
Only ~10% of Tata Motors‘ valuation comes from the standalone business, as per our estimate. At the helm of Tata’s problems in India remained lower-than-expected sales in the passenger vehicle and light commercial ve...
5 passengers killed in Alaska mid-air plane crash
Business Insider - 1 Sep 2016 00:50
AP Photo/Alaska State Troopers Two small planes carrying a total of five passengers collided in mid-air in Alaska Wednesday morning, authorities said. All five people are dead, according to Alaska State Troopers. The cra...
Aeropostale Gets A Last Minute Bid To Save Stores
Forbes - 1 Sep 2016 05:21
Aeropostale gets a last-minute bid to keep stores open.
Chrome 53 arrives with new developer features
Venture Beat - 1 Sep 2016 01:22
Google today launched Chrome 53 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This release is mainly focused on developers, but there’s no reason for anyone to hold off from updating. You can update to the latest version now using the ...
Israel Courts Foreign Money in Effort to Become Gas Exporter
The New York Times - 1 Sep 2016 21:12
The campaign is a major shift for a country whose government wrestled with how to regulate the energy industry.
DYK? You must inform bank if you continue your salary account with a new employer
livemint.com - 1 Sep 2016 15:19If you can't monitor portfolio, choose MFs over direct equity
livemint.com - 1 Sep 2016 15:19
How much you can manage your investments on your own and how much help you need will determine the method you adopt to investing
Govt capital expenditure falls in first four months of current fiscal year
livemint.com - 1 Sep 2016 15:14
The central government's capital expenditure went down by 17.1% over April-July 2016, compared to the same period a year ago
How Sina Can Do More to Unlock Weibo Value
Wall Street Journal - 1 Sep 2016 13:48
Chinese internet portal Sina is passing out shares in popular Twitter-like service Weibo as a way to boost its own stock price. It can afford to do more.
Cloud management company Box's quarterly revenue jumps 30%
CNBC - 1 Sep 2016 12:37
Its net loss narrowed to $38.1 million, or 30 cents per share, in the second quarter from $50.2 million, or 42 cents per share, a year earlier.
'Star Wars' fuels toy industry to record sales
New York Post - 1 Sep 2016 06:00
The force is strong with the toy sellers. The US toy industry is coming off its best year in more than a decade and is expecting this year to be just as strong, thanks to the "Star Wars" juggernaut. US toy sales rose 7 p...
Goldman Sachs looks at trading future done only by computers
New York Post - 1 Sep 2016 05:13
Goldman Sachs is a money-making machine -- literally. The Wall Street firm is planning for a future when more bond trading is done automatically by computers, a departure for a line of business that heretofore has been b...
Simi Valley woman awarded $15.4 million after investing in Ponzi scheme pushed by insurance salesman
L.A. Times - 1 Sep 2016 04:40Twitter co-founder says company must consider sale
New York Post - 1 Sep 2016 04:39
Maybe a little bird told him. Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, who sits on the board of the microblogging service and is its biggest shareholder, said the company must consider a sale. When asked whether Twitter was a t...
Are chatbots an evolution or a revolution?
Venture Beat - 1 Sep 2016 23:10
GUEST: Chatbots are a hot topic in tech — positioned at the intersection of many macro tech trends like the rise of artificial intelligence, messaging apps surpassing social apps in users, and enterprises struggling wi...
Will chatbots ever hold a real conversation?
Venture Beat - 1 Sep 2016 21:10
GUEST: There’s a lot of chatter about chatbots these days and how we might be able to use them in the future. The biggest question seems to be whether chatbots can be useful enough to convincingly replace human convers...
5 things you should know about Ark's Scorched Earth expansion
Venture Beat - 1 Sep 2016 23:30
Ark: Survival Evolved is still in early access, but that doesn’t mean it can’t get an expansion. Studio Wildcard is launching Ark: Scorched Earth on Xbox One and Steam today for $20. This add-on introduces a desert b...
Valuing A Business For Sale - A Buyer and Seller Standoff
Forbes - 1 Sep 2016 23:27
There is a long held belief in the business for sale sector that a business is worth what a buyer is willing to pay and what a seller is willing to accept. Theoretically it sounds wonderful; practically, it does not wor...
Twitter testing Periscope feature that pulls video from external sources
Venture Beat - 1 Sep 2016 23:07
Twitter is testing a feature in Periscope that lets a limited number of broadcasters incorporate video from external sources, meaning that you soon may no longer be restricted to livestreaming video solely from your mobi...
Why Facebook Messenger doesn't have a bot store
Venture Beat - 1 Sep 2016 22:31
More than 18,000 Facebook Messenger bots have been created since Mark Zuckerberg opened the platform to developers more than four months ago. But today there is no easy way to search and sort them. There is no single web...
Samsung begins 'thorough inspection' of Note7 following reports of exploding batteries
Venture Beat - 1 Sep 2016 21:47
Samsung acknowledged that it is conducting a “thorough inspection” of its supply of Galaxy Note7 smartphones following reports this week of battery explosions. However, the company declined to comment on whether it w...