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A Billionaire's Latest Biotech Bet
Barron's - 4 Apr 2018 21:23
Bob Duggan has persevered before and realized a $3.5 billion payoff. Is he right about Achaogen?
Trump Proposes Tariffs on $50 Billion in Chinese Electronics Imports
Time - 4 Apr 2018 04:50
'China's going to be compelled to lash back.'
8 Tax Tips My Clients Taught Me
Forbes - 5 Apr 2018 01:25
Clients have again come to me with questions and misperceptions that have opened up new opportunities for tax planning. As we close in on the last couple weeks of the first filing deadline, I wanted to highlight eight ta...
Can Trump Ignite A Maxi Panic?
Forbes - 4 Apr 2018 23:57
I'm betting against our President willfully destroying the market. Too many citizens own index funds and ETFs. My biggest fear, why I retain some reserves, is public panic forces redemptions of mutual funds and ETFs. We'...
GM and Ford Have a Few Lessons for Elon Musk
Barron's - 4 Apr 2018 16:38
Tesla's founder says "car biz is hell," but the US automakers have spent a century trying to make it a bit easier.
Facebook deletes more Russian troll farm-affiliated accounts
USA Today - 4 Apr 2018 06:19Top Morgan Stanley broker fired over abuse allegations
New York Post - 4 Apr 2018 07:18
Douglas Greenberg, a top broker at Morgan Stanley who kept his job despite his 15-year record of abusing women -- a record known to his employer -- was fired on Tuesday, the Wall Street bank said. Greenberg was placed on...
YouTube creator and tech leaders tweet sympathies for YouTube HQ victims
USA Today - 4 Apr 2018 07:04
Apple's Tim Cook, Google's Sundar Pichai, Amazon's Jeff Bezos and other notable tech figures took to Twitter to respond to the shooting at YouTube HQ.
Saudi Arabia will fine couples $130,000 for snooping through each others' texts
Business Insider - 4 Apr 2018 06:10
REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser Saudi Arabia has taken steps to criminalize citizens who snoop through their spouses' phones. The new law imposes fines of up to $130,000 or jail time for for the offense. The initiative is part ...
The Latest: China's Commerce Ministry warns of retaliation
ABC News - 4 Apr 2018 04:06
US proposes tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese products as trade tensions rise
Sometimes Fighting Climate Change Means Breaking the Law
The New Yorker - 4 Apr 2018 03:38
Carolyn Kormann discusses a recent court ruling out of Boston, in which a judge held that a group of pipeline protesters' acts of civil disobedience were justified by the threat that climate change poses.
P2P payments still have an adoption problem
American Banker - 4 Apr 2018 02:08
Despite increased bank and investor activity around digital P2P payments, consumers haven't flocked to P2P in expected numbers.
These 4 Stocks All Hit New 52-Week Highs Today: Guess Which Sector?
Forbes - 5 Apr 2018 01:05
These 4 stocks in the same sector hit 52-week highs at the open as many other stocks were being sold.
What's my bank got to do with the price of milk?
American Banker - 4 Apr 2018 23:08
Forget ROA and efficiency ratio. When it comes to buying stakes in small banks, many investors are looking at indicators like commodities prices, executives' ages and city-by-city market conditions.
Why The World Needs More Other-Focused Leaders
Forbes - 4 Apr 2018 17:305 takeaways from Treasury's call to action on CRA
American Banker - 4 Apr 2018 02:08
The financial services industry and community reinvestment advocates both praised the Treasury Department's recommendations for reforming Community Reinvestment Act enforcement.
Aalok Devkota Puts Up A Winning Quarter By Playing Exceptional Defense
Forbes - 5 Apr 2018 01:46
Aalok Devkota has outperformed 75% of U.S. equity mutual fund managers for the last 3 years in part because we allow him to take defensive action for our clients when he sees fit. He turned defensive about 2 weeks ago, a...
This Restaurant Entrepreneur Thinks Outside The Box And Serves Cake In A Jar
Forbes - 5 Apr 2018 01:31
A former Oprah producer continues to think outside the box by starting a restaurant where cake is served in a jar.
Monster Prom is a quirky competitive dating sim with party games
Venture Beat - 5 Apr 2018 01:30
The high school in Monster Prom exists in a colorful alternate dimension filled with coquettish Medusas and demon jocks -- and you (and up to three friends) must date one of them. Spanish indie studio Beautiful Glitch’...
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook needs to take full responsibility for how people are using our tools
Venture Beat - 5 Apr 2018 01:23
On a conference call with reporters today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that the social media giant’s view of what responsibility it had to educate users on how to use their tools was too limited. Zuckerbe...
Family-friendly PixArk is a smart remix of Ark: Survival Evolved
Venture Beat - 5 Apr 2018 01:16
Of all of the survival sim games that I’ve tried, I found Ark: Survival Evolved among the most complicated and unforgiving. You would think developer Snail Games would want to tone down those elements for its family-fr...
AWS Secrets Manager plugs a major cloud security hole
Venture Beat - 5 Apr 2018 00:26
Amazon Web Services announced a new service today that could solve one of the biggest security headaches facing users of the cloud platform. The AWS Secrets Manager will allow developers to programmatically insert the cr...