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GE CEO: It is the end of the 'global elite' (GE)
Business Insider - 5 Mar 2017 00:45
Thomson Reuters America "will be less of a leader in trade" in the coming years, according to Jeff Immelt, GE's chairman and CEO. "We're in an era when some very basic assumptions about the global economy are being teste...
Former Sony boss eyes partner for new home-shopping network
New York Post - 5 Mar 2017 04:01
Former Sony Music boss Tommy Mottola has his fingers in a lot of pies these days. Mottola told On the Money over coffee last week that he's in talks to bring in a strategic partner for his home-shopping network, Evine Li...
Equinox brings in new CEO to further company growth
New York Post - 5 Mar 2017 06:08
Equinox is bringing in a new chief executive from the global hotel/hospitality/luxury travel industry to help it grow to the next level, The Post learned exclusively. Niki Leondakis, formerly CEO of Two Roads Hospitality...
What businesses want from the Budget
BBC - 5 Mar 2017 03:37
Britain's business leaders want to see business rates reform and economic stability in the Budget.
Insider Q&A: Mark Wolf, founder and CEO of AHV Communities
ABC News - 5 Mar 2017 16:03
Mark Wolf, developer of new single-family rental house communities, says trends favor continued demand for rental houses
Numbers don't lie: Wall Street bull is the real deal
USA Today - 5 Mar 2017 16:01California High School Makes $24 Million By Investing In Snap IPO
Tech Times - 5 Mar 2017 15:35
Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, California, poured an early investment of $15,000 for Snap Inc., the maker of Snapchat. Today the investment in Snap's IPO is worth $24 million.
Are We Breaking The Internet?
Fast Company - 5 Mar 2017 16:00
A recent giant cloud outage and other big accidents offer a good opportunity to reflect on the curious, perilous architecture of the web. A recent giant cloud outage and other big accidents offer a good opportunity to re...
Each economic decision has its positives and negatives
New York Post - 5 Mar 2017 03:40
Dear John: While it may feel like the economy is broken, what we have is multiple economies. The repair to one economy often results in a problem somewhere else. Mostly it seems to me that the system is a fixed-sum game....
HDFC Bank launches chatbot Eva for customer services
livemint.com - 5 Mar 2017 18:10
HDFC Bank says Eva will be able to handle real banking transactions as well in future, which would enable the bank to offer the true power of conversational banking to its customers
Ouch: taking the sting out of medical expenses
Miami Herald - 5 Mar 2017 16:03
Medical expenses are a burden whenever they hit, but a recent study found they're most common around this time of year. The study found that one in six families makes …
Mobile industry wants you to know it's ready to take security seriously
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2017 16:02
The security industry had a fairly blunt message for the thousands of brands and attendees at the world's largest mobile trade show this week: Get your shit together. Security has too often taken a backseat as the mobile...
US Sen. Warren turns fundraising powerhouse for Democrats
Miami Herald - 5 Mar 2017 15:52
At the core of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's appeal is a critique of an economic system she says is rigged against the little guy. Helping fuel that message is a …
What experts are saying about Apple's next big thing (AAPL)
Business Insider - 5 Mar 2017 15:00
There's a lot of pressure on Apple's next iPhone to deliver, both in product quality and sales. Chatter from Apple's factories in Asia point toa completely redesigned iPhone coming out this fall, possibly with a better s...
The American suburbs as we know them are dying
Business Insider - 5 Mar 2017 14:30
Skye Gould/Business Insider Mike Black / Reuters Look no further than the suburbs to see how American ideals about success are transforming. People in the US suburbs are changing the way they shop, where they eat, and wh...
Legislators' grades to reveal record on open government
Miami Herald - 5 Mar 2017 08:00
How quickly can the public's right to government information be eroded? A committee once spent 45 minutes debating whether a cheerleader should legally be considered an athlete, then passed nine …
Michigan runs out of money pledged to environmental cleanup
Miami Herald - 5 Mar 2017 07:01
Michigan has spent or obligated almost all of a dedicated source of funding needed to clean up and redevelop 7,000 polluted sites across the state, leaving lawmakers to question the …
China Lowers Growth Target as Lawmakers Meet
The New York Times - 5 Mar 2017 04:02
Before a meeting of the National People's Congress, Premier Li Keqiang defended the target as realistic and vowed to increase pollution monitoring.
Mermaid, Siren, Princess: How The Starbucks Logo Evolved
Forbes - 5 Mar 2017 03:58
The narrator of the story identifies himself as Ishmael, the ship is the Pequod, and the first mate is Mister Starbuck. But we do not drink Moby, Pequod, Ishmael or Ahab coffee, we drink Starbucks.
Federal Reserve official warns of digital currency's risks
Venture Beat - 5 Mar 2017 02:41
(Reuters) – A top U.S. Federal Reserve official on Friday raised caution about central banks issuing digital currencies as they are vulnerable to cyber attacks and criminal activities along with privacy issues that sti...
How Linkedin Uses Linkedin for Marketing
Forbes - 5 Mar 2017 02:05
The best way to learn how to market on LinkedIn is to look at what LinkedIn itself is doing.
5 Secrets To Maximizing Your Productivity
inc - 5 Mar 2017 00:26
These five easy changes will help you get more done than ever before