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Whispers Of China Preparing For An Onslaught Of New Foreign Investors In Its Bonds
Forbes - 2 Apr 2017 15:58
The PBOC has taken measures to meet the trend of including Chinese bonds in global indices, by making it easier for foreign investors to invest, said PBOC Chief Economist Ma Jun at a recent ASIFMA conference in Beijing. ...
Hacking pioneer John Draper, aka Cap'n Crunch, needs funds for medical help
Venture Beat - 2 Apr 2017 19:08
John Draper, a legendary “phone phreaker” known as Cap’n Crunch, had surgery last week to deal with a degenerative spine disease, and his friends are raising money on GoFundMe for the medical bills. Draper worked w...
Avoid Retirement Disaster By Taking These Important Steps
Forbes - 2 Apr 2017 16:00
Take stock of reasons for the large refund and how it fits into your overall plan.
The looming jobs crisis the Trump administration must not ignore
Venture Beat - 2 Apr 2017 02:00
GUEST: Everyone has heard the old anecdote about the frog in a pot of water. If you raise the water temperature slowly, the frog doesn’t notice or react to the change, eventually allowing itself to be boiled alive. Tha...
Tesla Has Its Best Quarterly Production and Deliveries. Can It Quintuple Them?
Forbes - 2 Apr 2017 23:59
Elon Musk's electric transportation and energy company faces a big challenge in achieving 2018 production target of 500,000 vehicles
Windows 10 is getting mixed reality support next month
Venture Beat - 2 Apr 2017 23:33
Back in October Microsoft unveiled a bold new vision for its Windows 10 operating system named the Creator's Update, and mixed reality technology played a big part in it. Now, that revamp has finally been dated. Microsof...
Boasting On WhatsApp Costs U.K. Banker Job And $46,000: Social Media Highlights Ethics And Risk
Forbes - 2 Apr 2017 23:31
A U.K. banker lost his job and was fined last week by the regulator for sharing messages on WhatsApp regarding client information.The case points to the way in which use of social media demands that the individual and th...
6 Investment Strategies For Founders Raising Funding
Forbes - 2 Apr 2017 21:16
Content fuels relationships with investors the same way it does with your customers and clients. You just have to adjust your approach a little.
5 industries drones will disrupt in 2017
Venture Beat - 2 Apr 2017 21:10
GUEST: Amazon's aim of transforming e-commerce standards, perhaps even from same day to same hour delivery via drones, continues to make headlines. But as drone technology develops at jet speed, there is a whole host of ...
Is believing in Moore's Law science or religion?
Venture Beat - 2 Apr 2017 18:05
Intel was quiet about its technological advances for a while, and that made people wonder if Moore’s Law was slowing down. In 1965, Intel chairman emeritus Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on a chi...
Dear Midwest: Stop trying to compete with Silicon Valley
Venture Beat - 2 Apr 2017 17:35
GUEST: When it comes to launching the next on-demand, social, consumer-focused app -- your Facebooks, Instagrams, and Snapchats of the world -- Silicon Valley has no equal. But mankind cannot live on social media alone, ...
VRPhysio enables patients to do physical therapy in virtual reality
Venture Beat - 2 Apr 2017 16:15
Evan Orr needed physical therapy, but he found out the hard way that it wasn’t easy to do. Physical therapy is always a big part of rehabilitation, but no one wants to do the exercises. It’s hard to book an appointme...
China's Domestic Bond Market Microstructure: Larger But Still Under Development
Forbes - 2 Apr 2017 15:58
ASIFMA's mid-March conference on China's corporate bond, repo and OTC derivatives was an opportunity for policy makers and market practitioners to evaluate the state of its market microstructure. Here is a brief rundown.
Apple's latest iPad is the tablet equivalent of the iPhone SE
Venture Beat - 2 Apr 2017 14:13
The numbers for the iPad aren’t good. Revenue and unit sales were both down again, as usual. But that does not mean Apple has given up on its tablet. First Apple fleshed out the product line with two high-end iPad Pro ...
What Is Internet Marketing? Advice From An Eight-Figure Earner
Forbes - 2 Apr 2017 13:01
Wondering about the internet marketing field and just what it takes to succeed in this oftentimes-convoluted arena? Learn the secrets of success behind 8-figure earner, David Sharpe.
Alexa and Siri Are Invading Your Hotel Room...And Other Small Business Tech News This Week
Forbes - 2 Apr 2017 13:00
Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?
4 Reasons Earn-outs Blow Up (And How To Protect Yourself)
Forbes - 2 Apr 2017 12:07
After close to 100 interviews with owners who have sold their businesses, one consistent theme emerges: earn-outs are the enemy of the entrepreneur.
A Google X employee collapsed on the job, and coworkers say corporate culture is to blame
Venture Beat - 2 Apr 2017 11:21
On a cold morning in February 2015, a group of men left the spacious Google X headquarters in Mountain View, California, before daybreak. They traveled more than two hours east to some trailers parked in the middle of no...
Why Two Bangaloreans Left The City To Pursue A Startup In The Himalayas
Forbes - 2 Apr 2017 08:55
Perched up in the Himalayan region, a new hotel is going off-the-grid, encouraging visitors to connect with wildlife, and go offline as well. Ironically, it's run by two Bangaloreans who had successful corporate careers ...
AWS QuickSight now lets you export data in CSV format
Venture Beat - 2 Apr 2017 08:01
Public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced a small but helpful update to Amazon QuickSight, its web-based business intelligence (BI) tool for visualizing data. Now it’s possible to e...
The UVTA Baedeker: Can The Transferee Asset A Defense?
Forbes - 2 Apr 2017 07:15
This is Part IV of my walking tour of the Uniform Voidable Transactions Act (UVTA), or the 2014 Revisions to the Uniform Fraudulent Transfers Act. This article covers the tests for whether the transferee can assert a def...
How AI can 'change the locks' in cybersecurity
Venture Beat - 2 Apr 2017 04:03
GUEST: Some of the world's best known brands have invested millions of dollars in information security. So have their adversaries. Malicious actors are counting on the fact that your defenses are operated mostly by human...