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Startups, please don't hire a biz dev person
Venture Beat - 2 Oct 2016 20:08
GUEST: There are an awful lot of people with empty calendars. How do I know? My inbox tells me. Many of them are filling that time by sending me messages like these: “I am going to be in town next week and would love t...
Kirstin Harper-Smith is helping build downtown Los Angeles
L.A. Times - 2 Oct 2016 12:00Lawyers Defend $300 Million Fee In VW Settlement, Say They Didn't Ride DOJ's Coattails
Forbes - 2 Oct 2016 15:11
Plaintiff lawyers defend a $10 billion settlement and their $300 million fee in the VW diesel emissions scandal.
Snitker, 3 coaches interview for Braves managerial job
Miami Herald - 2 Oct 2016 01:29
Interim manager Brian Snitker decided about six weeks ago that he wanted to be the Atlanta Braves' full-time manager. Snitker had worked as interim skipper since May 17, steering baseball's …
No Clear Winner (Yet) In Global Oil Markets War
Forbes - 2 Oct 2016 09:41
Oil markets have been over supplied now for more than two-and-a-half years with financial pain being felt from Moscow to Houston to Riyadh and everywhere in between, in arguably the worse oil market crash in a generation...
EU plans to demand Google halt anti-competitive behavior for Android
Venture Beat - 2 Oct 2016 07:24
(Reuters) – EU antitrust regulators plan to order Alphabet’s Google to stop paying financial incentives to smartphone makers to pre-install Google Search exclusively on their devices and warned the company of a large...
Baxter medical center to monitor patients via telehealth
News Observer - 2 Oct 2016 07:01
A $320,538 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture is helping Baxter Regional Medical Center reduce its readmission rate while implementing a Complex Care Management, allowing staff members to …
Report: Trump losses may mean he didn't pay taxes for years
Miami Herald - 2 Oct 2016 05:59
Donald Trump's business losses in 1995 were so large that they could have allowed him to avoid paying federal income taxes for as many as 18 years, according to records …
Mercedes Races To Record $320 Million F1 Revenue
Forbes - 2 Oct 2016 02:40
The Mercedes Formula One team has revealed that its revenue last year accelerated 38.5% on 2014 to hit $316.1 million, its highest since the German auto manufacturer bought the outfit from former boss Ross Brawn in 2009.
Why insurers and banks want to know your job title
USA Today - 2 Oct 2016 13:43
Hint: They're not just asking because they're polite.
Oil companies slip in new list of leading energy firms
USA Today - 2 Oct 2016 13:30Unions call for speed in workers on company boards
BBC - 2 Oct 2016 12:16
The TUC says workers could be represented on company boards within a year, if the government acts quickly on a promise by Prime Minister Theresa May.
How to protect your Social Security number after a hack
USA Today - 2 Oct 2016 12:02
Tips to better protect and monitor your credit, or contain any damage.
Deutsche is proof that bank regulators have just been hoping for the best
The Guardian - 2 Oct 2016 08:00
Even if the ailing institution manages to renegotiate its $14bn penalty, its plight has revealed alarming truths about the banking industry as a whole Can the crisis be over at Deutsche Bank? The immediate storm will pas...
Delinquency rates rise on the riskiest auto loans
USA Today - 2 Oct 2016 07:40Laurene Powell Jobs invests in firm behind 'Spotlight'
New York Post - 2 Oct 2016 06:43
On the Money called it right even though we didn't have any Anonymous sources. In August, OTM wrote: "Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple boss Steve Jobs, has shown an interest" in Anonymous Content, the production a...
Back-to-school shopping sees rise in thrifting
New York Post - 2 Oct 2016 06:08
While overall retail sales revenue for the second-biggest shopping season in New York slowed 0.2 percent when compared to 2015, used clothing sales grew by 7.7 percent. Cash-strapped shoppers looking for additional value...
Dear John: 'DirecTV/Amazon' offer proved to be a scam
New York Post - 2 Oct 2016 05:48
Dear John: I just wanted to alert you to a scam that unfortunately I recently fell for. I received a call from "DirecTV," to which I subscribe. The caller had my name, address, account number, etc. The caller also knew I...
ThIs Is The Biggest Way Couples Screw Up Retirement Planning
The Huffington Post - 2 Oct 2016 03:52
In theater, a play for two actors is known as a two-hander. Well, for couples, retirement planning should be a two-hander, too. Turns out, according to a new NerdWallet survey, one hand doesn’t know what the other is d...
Can A.I. help out in the executive suite?
Venture Beat - 2 Oct 2016 03:04
Will artificial intelligence replace humans, or assist humans? That’s the great debate in Silicon Valley, and the larger world of technology. We’ll see this debate play out over and over, from the Westworld HBO telev...
3 chatbots to deploy in your business
Venture Beat - 2 Oct 2016 01:10
GUEST: While the idea of a "killer app" has turned out to be mostly hyperbole, the rumor that bots are "app killers" is a prediction that seems to be coming to fruition. With messaging platforms like Slack and WeChat off...
How to get a job in the VR economy
Venture Beat - 2 Oct 2016 00:18
GUEST: When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, it kicked off a booming tech ecosystem known as the app economy. And the app economy, in turn, generated hundreds of thousands of new jobs spanning design and development,...