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Ever Acrobatic, Julius Erving Takes A Leap To The Top Of The List Of Most Influential Sixers
Forbes - 30 Sep 2019 14:00
Julius Erving, graceful on and off the court, ranks as the most influential Sixers personality of all time.
Oil down nearly 2% on trade war jitters and Chinese data
Reuters - 30 Sep 2019 15:00
Oil slipped on Monday as China's economic outlook remained weak even as manufacturing data improved, with the continuing trade war with the United States weighing on demand growth for the world's largest crude importer.
For Young Savers Facing Subpar Returns, Think Long Term
Wall Street Journal - 30 Sep 2019 13:00
Not only have stocks and bonds been volatile the past quarter, both are pricey by historic measures. That makes it hard for savers, particularly millennials just starting to build nest eggs, to set long-term expectations...
Kokila To Publish 'The Seed Of Compassion,' The First Children's Book By The Dalai Lama
Forbes - 30 Sep 2019 03:47
In March 2020, Penguin Young Readers imprint Kokila will publish The Seed of Compassion: Lessons from the Life and Teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, with illustrations by Bao Luu.
Forever 21, once among America's fastest growing fast-fashion retailers, files for bankruptcy
Business Insider - 30 Sep 2019 03:43
Shutterstock/freemind-production Forever 21, the California-based chain which helped proliferate the "fast-fashion" trend, has filed for bankruptcy. The company wrote in a letter to its customers on Sunday that Forever 2...
Making Sense of the 5 Major Holding Companies' Data Offerings
AdWeek - 30 Sep 2019 02:00
If recent high-profile acquisitions are any indication, the ad industry is in the midst of a veritable data gold rush, and first-party data assets are the means for staking your claim. In April, Publicis bought Epsilon f...
Intel Names Karen Walker as CMO
AdWeek - 30 Sep 2019 21:40
Intel has a new CMO. The technology company signed industry vet Karen Walker away from Cisco, where she served as CMO since 2015. At Intel, Walker will serve as senior vice president and CMO, effective Oct. 23, and will ...
Geico Just Scared Up 2 New Horror-Themed Ads to Get You Ready for Halloween
AdWeek - 30 Sep 2019 17:24
Halloween is always a good time to discover who might be unexpectedly sharing your home with you. Geico today unveiled two new ads from The Martin Agency that follow that thread with very different results. In one, Geico...
Sanders wants to tax companies where CEOs far outearn workers
CBSNews - 30 Sep 2019 17:10
Companies including JPMorgan, Tesla and Walmart would be among the hardest hit by the proposed tax
The Norwegian Novel That Divided a Family and Captivated a Country
The New Yorker - 30 Sep 2019 11:00
Lauren Collins on Vigdis Hjorth, who insists that her novel "Will and Testament" is not autobiography and whose work has ignited debate over the ethics of "reality literature."
Oil prices climb as positive China factory data eases demand concerns
Reuters - 30 Sep 2019 05:23
Oil prices edged up on Monday after China's factories unexpectedly ramped up production in September, easing concerns about demand at the world's largest crude importer amid an ongoing trade war with the United States.
Cryptos: Bitcoin treads water around $8,000 after its worst week of the year
Market Watch - 30 Sep 2019 04:00
The price of bitcoin struggled to remain above the $8,000 level Sunday, following its worst weekly price loss of the year.
The U.S. Department Of Energy Says More Oil, More Natural Gas
Forbes - 30 Sep 2019 01:21
The investment in oil and natural gas around the world had some particularly eye-popping numbers last week. That should be obvious to all of us. The U.S. Department of Energy remains abundantly clear: more oil, more natu...
Tide's 4-Week 'Laundry Night' Campaign Wraps Up With a Bud Knight Tie-in
AdWeek - 30 Sep 2019 20:59
What if the real laundry night was the friends we made along the way? Tide has officially wrapped up its four-week, fourth-wall-busting "Laundry Night" campaign that spilled across multiple ads, NBC programs and supposed...
Google's highly scalable AI can generate convincingly humanlike speech
Venture Beat - 30 Sep 2019 18:25
Researchers at Google and Imperial College London propose an AI model that generates humanlike speech while requiring less computational horsepower.
Big name IPOs in third quarter brighten gloom for equity market fundraising
Reuters - 30 Sep 2019 16:01
A couple of hefty share listings in Europe and the return of AB InBev's Asian unit float in the third quarter of 2019 brought some hope to a global IPO market battered by political volatility and downbeat global growth e...
Biden Tries Dem 2018 Strategy -- Ignore Trump For Bread And Butter Issues
TPM - 30 Sep 2019 14:07
Ever since the steady stream of Ukrainian revelations broke into public consciousness, Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign has been trying...
How to make someone like you in under 5 minutes, according to a relationship expert
Business Insider - 30 Sep 2019 13:53
GettyImages/Thomas Barwick Debra Roberts, LCSW, is an author, a relationship expert, and a communication specialist with over 20 years of experience working with challenging relationships. The need to be liked is a funda...
Let's Be Clear About This: There Is No Time For An "Orderly Decarbonization"
Forbes - 30 Sep 2019 11:50
Leading Spanish electricity utility Endesa is to close its As Pontes power plant in the northwestern region of Galicia, an area already heavily affected by industrial reconversion. But we must stop generating electricity...
IBM's AI generates high-quality voices from 5 minutes of talking
Venture Beat - 30 Sep 2019 23:31
In a paper, researchers at IBM detail a modular text-to-speech system that generates high-quality voices from as little as five minutes of speech.
For Women In Venture Capital, Courage Is The Asset That Matters
Forbes - 30 Sep 2019 22:11
Susan Choe founded Katalyst Ventures, on the strength of IRR of 16.6% for companies she invested into. She's one of the few women VCs to reach the top echelon of the business.
Words With Friends player data allegedly stolen for 218 million users
Venture Beat - 30 Sep 2019 22:10
A hacker claims to have hacked Zynga's Words With Friends social mobile game, gaining access to a database of information on more than 218 million users.