Friday, September 30, 2016

Behind The Scenes Of Bloomberg Businessweek"s Epic Explanation Of Code

Fifty-one years after Marshall McLuhan first wrote “The Medium is the Message,” Paul Ford’s 38,000-word magnum opus on programming embodies that vision. The print version of the story, which covers 72 pages in a special issue of Bloomberg Businessweek, strains the...

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Zero to IPO: Lessons From The Unlikely Story of HubSpot

HubSpot has had a pretty good run.  Went from zero to IPO.  What’s not known is how unlikely the story of our success is.

II gave a talk at the 2016 SaaStr Conference hosted by Jason Lemkin.  The slides and full video from the talk are included below, with some quick notes on a few of ...

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Ferrari reveals fastest convertible ever

Ferrari went to extremes when it unveiled two new cars at the Paris Motor Show Thursday.
One was a less expensive version of the practical GTC4Lusso model, which is a four-seater. The other was a convertible version of the LaFerrari hybrid extreme supercar.
The convertible...

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Harley Finkelstein: 5 Lessons I Learned While Developing My Product

By Sara Rose Anderson, Britelites


A few years ago, after my daughter was born, I considered getting a serious makeover. Nine months of pregnancy will do that to you. Funky colors were calling my name but there was no way I could pull off blue hair at my conservative office job. My...

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Southwest flights delayed by online booking glitch

Frustrated Southwest Airlines customers have been forced to wait in long lines for a second day as the airline tries to solve a technical problem with its electronic booking system. In the meantime, passengers are being told to prepare for delays. Katharine Jackson reports.







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Nutanix soars on debut

Shares of Nutanix soared on their public debut on the Nasdaq Friday. Priced at $16 a share, the stock opened at $26.50. The cloud computing company is one of the rare recent cases of a tech company that priced its shares at a level ABOVE its valuation as a private company.
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Fair Game: Executive Pay Clawbacks Are Gratifying, but Not Particularly Effective

If the goal is to keep corporate executives honest, compensation clawbacks aren’t doing the job.
That’s what the recent action by Wells Fargo’s board shows. Yes, the bank’s directors acted on Tuesday to recover $60 million in stock grants from two top executives in the wake of the phony accou...

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Amidst building boom, an effort to save Washington’s last warehouse district

For 75 years independent merchants have worked out of warehouses in Northeast D.C. Should the warehouses be saved in the face of new development plans? (2006 staff photo)
Warehouses that make up one of the District’s largest and last-remaining industrial areas — the Union Market sectio...

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The government was letting residents kill nearly extinct wolves. A court said stop.

Two red wolves at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, N.C. (B. Bartel/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
A federal district court in North Carolina issued a preliminary injunction Thursday barring the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from capturing and removing red wolves in the state...

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Feature: How Donald Trump Set Off a Civil War Within the Right-Wing Media

In fact, Corey Lewandowski had reached out to Coulter for advice in the run-up to Trump’s announcement speech. The address Trump delivered on June 16 bore no resemblance to his prepared text, which contained a mere two sentences about immigration. Instead, he ad-libbed what Coulter today c...

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Feeding America’s startling statistics

Reuters is the news and media division of Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters is the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock market,...

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Judith E. Glaser: Are You Ready for the Naked Truth? Lessons from an IPO Offering

Going public with an IPO, for a number of important reasons, is pivotal to the growth of a company.


Walls come down and outsiders invade your business. Everything you do is open to examination, scrutiny and challenge. So, if you’re not ready to stand naked — think...

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Bobby Flay On What Customers Crave Most

TV host and restaurateur Bobby Flay discusses his passion for hamburgers at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s Burger Bash….
Read more: Burger Bash, Bobby"s Burger Palace, Small Business Video, Bobby Flay, South Beach Wine & Food Festival, Video, Small Business...

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Noel Irwin Hentschel: Debate Results by Einstein: Hillary Wins Status Quo Vote, Trump Wins Change Voters, Election Decision, Choose Past or Future, Insanity or Common Sense

According to the logic of Albert Einstein the “deplorables” Hillary Clinton despises are the only sane voters. The brainy Einstein reasoning sums up the choice for this critical presidential election, “Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting...

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Election brief: climate change: Notes from the undergrowth

In Flint, don’t drink the water

DESPITE deluges in the South, droughts in the West and fires throughout national forests this year, the words “climate” and “change” have seldom been uttered together on the campaign trail. Fifteen of the 16 hottest years on record have occurred since 2000. Y...

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Slip slidin’ away

INVESTORS in Mexico were among those cheered by Hillary Clinton’s strong performance in the American presidential debate on September 26th. The country’s ailing peso has lost 12% of its value against the dollar this year. But either side of Mrs Clinton’s first joust with Donald Trump it cli...

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Free trade: Coming and going

IN MARCH 2000, two months before a crucial vote in America’s Congress on whether to make normal trading relations with China permanent, Bill Clinton gave a press conference. In the first year of his presidency, 1993, he had made a bold case for the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (...

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Japan and corporate governance: At the sharp end

EUPHORIA has recently broken out over a supposed new dawn of better corporate governance and higher profits for Japanese industry. But bad news this week from Sharp, a firm once a symbol of the country’s economic clout, and Toshiba, another engineering giant, were reminders of how incomplete ...

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How the Samsung Galaxy Note7 Recall Affects Business Owners

As a business owner, it can be stressful to go without a phone for an extended period of time. There are things you have to take care of and some of them have to happen on the go. Because of its new features, the Samsung Galaxy Note7 is a great option for business owners.
Some of these...

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U.S.: Wells Fargo illegally repossessed 413 service members' cars

Wells Fargo will pay $24 million to settle allegations that it mistreated members of the military — including illegally repossessing their cars.
The bank, already reeling from a scandal over fake accounts, will pay $4.1 million to settle Justice Department charges that it...

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Tests of character

Lie-detection the old-fashioned way

HOW would you feel if you were invited to the moon? If you found a gold coin, would you save it, give it to charity or splurge on a holiday? Personality quizzes of this kind—“psychometrics”, in the jargon—are already the bane of many a jobseeker. Now, it ...

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Samsung’s ‘exploding’ washers raise serious questions about its quality control

A picture of a faulty washer, submitted to SaferProducts.gov.

Samsung, still recovering from the messy recall of its premium Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, has disclosed that products from another major category are also prone to exploding — its washing machines.
Consumers reported at least s...

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Why this big gap for women in the workplace should get much more attention

A new study from McKinsey & Co. and LeanIn.org, the organization founded by Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, is a reminder of the yawning gap young women face when it comes to early promotions. (Kuni Takahashi/Bloomberg)
By now the statistics are well-known, if still unsettling: Wo...

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Lawmakers to Wells Fargo CEO: ‘Why shouldn’t you be in jail?’

John Stumpf, CEO of Wells Fargo, speaks during a House Financial Services Committee on Thursday (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)
The chief executive of Wells Fargo, one of the country’s largest banks, stumbled his way through more than four hours of blistering questioning by House members Th...

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Fiber-like light emitting diodes for wearable displays

A research team at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed fiber-like light emitting diodes, applicable to wearable displays.

Professor Kyung-Cheol Choi and his research team from the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST have developed fiber-like light...

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'Incomprehensible' birth of supercrystal explained

Two years ago, a research team led by Utrecht University published an article in Science explaining how they had created a material with unique and extremely interesting electronic characteristics. In this ‘supercrystal’, the electrons move almost with the speed of photons, and...

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Playing the nanodrum

Like drums in regular drumsets, graphene membranes at the nanoscale possess a distinct set of oscillating modes that correspond to specific oscillation frequencies. The modes can be excited by applying an external voltage.

In a study published in Nature Nanotechnology, researchers from...

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Ink wars: Blot on the landscape

IT TOOK a while to join the dots. On the morning of September 13th owners of several types of HP OfficeJet, a printer designed for the home and for smaller offices that is manufactured by HP Inc, an American seller of printers and computers, switched on their machines and found them not...

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Migration: Needed but not wanted

STOKE-ON-TRENT in northern England is home to the world’s second-oldest professional football club, Stoke City FC. Founded in 1863, it enjoyed its heyday in the mid-1970s, when the club came close to winning the top division. The playing style was described by its manager, Tony Waddington, ...

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Stunted growth for Modi's Swachh Bharat

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project turns two on Sunday, the quality of data and the government’s approach to the scheme raise many questions about its claimed success




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10 Indirect Things We Get Judged On -- How Do You Shape up?

Every day, and in every way, we consciously and unconsciously analyze everything about everyone. This is part of being social; it is part survival; and it is how we size people up to establish some level of predictability about who and how people are. This is a natural and nonstop process we ...

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3 Simple but Powerful Tips for Startup Success

This column is part of a series brought to you by Entrepreneur Coaching. Click here to learn more.
Everyone has to start somewhere. Whether he or she works for the largest corporation or the hottest start-up, every entrepreneur starts at square one.
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5 Ways to Market Your Business for Free (or Nearly Free)

A lot of entrepreneurs get discouraged because they don’t have massive marketing budgets and assume there aren’t effective ways to promote their business without deep pockets. This is far from the truth.
Related: 6 Essential SEO Strategies to Incorporate in 2016
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How to Promote Your Podcast

Before we launched our Buffer podcast, so much of our time and energy (99.9% of it, I’d wager!) was spent getting the sounds and feel just right. We did all the podcast things we were supposed to do in order to make a really great podcast — the interviews, the mixing, the uploading R...

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Value as a Service: Embracing the Coming Disruption

Today’s businesses should brace for a new standard where they must offer customers a clear and quantifiable distinction from their competitors. That’s the basis of the new book, Value as a Service: Embracing the Coming Disruption, from author Rob Bernshteyn (Greenleaf Book Group, August 201...

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LinkedIn Your Way to Your Next Deal

What do you do when you need to get to a person or a company?
It used to be that when you needed to get through to somebody you didn’t already know you had to pick up the phone and persuade that skeptical receptionist/gatekeeper. Remember the movie “Wall Street,” when Bud...

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Franchise of the Day: This Taco Shop Will Have You Feeling Warm and 'Fuzzy'

Sometimes average ideas just need a little revamping to become a great one.
The mentality was that of father and son entrepreneurs Alan and Chuck Bush, who bought a store in 2003 and updated it to open what’s now known as Fuzzy’s Taco Shops. Specializing in baja-style tacos, the creations fea...

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Working from Home: Overcoming the Initial Challenges

Whether you have decided to open your own business, pursue a freelance career, or you are simply continuing in your present position for an employer who no longer requires you to be in the office every day, there are a number of challenges you need to overcome to be a successful home-based...

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Thursday, September 29, 2016

Wealth Matters: It Pays to Be Wary When Hiring an Estate Sales Agent

“We filed a police report, but the police said it’s a civil, not a criminal, matter,” Ms. Davis said.
Estate sales are a step up from tag sales, with the promise of nicer items, the potential for rare finds and an expert to curate it all. But they exist in an unregulated market in which an ag...

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Bloomberg"s "What Is Code" Feature Was A Massive Hit -- Here"s Why

The conventional wisdom is that Internet users have the attention span of a goldfish — the shorter, the better. That’s what makes the runaway success of Bloomberg Businessweek’s “What Is Code?” — a 38,000-word opus on software engineering that took up an entire double issue...

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Economic Scene: What Can Mexico Do About Trump?

The minister of the economy, Mr. Guajardo Villarreal, argues there is little point for Mexico to respond now to Mr. Trump’s threats to wall off the Mexican people and slap a 35 percent tariff on Mexican imports. “We must not overreact to campaign rhetoric,” he told me. Still, the truck story ...

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3 Ways to Charge for Your Medical Claims Billing Service

The following excerpt is from Start Your Own Medical Claims Billing Service. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes
Before you start your medical claims billing service, it’s important to determine how much money you can expect to make.
Medical billing services charge their cli...

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Harley Finkelstein: How to Use Google Shopping to Grow Your Business

All businesses know the power of Google – its search engine results can bring you customers that are actively searching for what you’re selling. But have you heard of Google Shopping?


You may have noticed thumbnail images of specific products that show up when you search...

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William Morrow: Why Quality Should Be the Driving Force in Every Buying Decision

When trying to buy a machinery, equipment or complementary service for your company, you will want to consider the best price, a way to minimise cost and maximise profit.


All good businesses try to minimize their expenditure in order to boost their profit margin. Whether it is by...

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First Phones, Now Samsung Washing Machines Are Blowing Up: Reports

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is advising people who bought certain Samsung washing machines to only use the delicate cycle when washing bedding, water-resistant and bulky items because of concerns about injury or property damage.
On its website, Samsung says people...

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Och-Ziff to Pay Over $400 Million in Bribery Settlement

Africa once represented a lucrative new market for a giant New York hedge fund.
But that hedge fund, Och-Ziff Capital Management, and its founder, Daniel Och, are now paying the price for what the United States government has charged were bribes to government officials to secure natural...

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Artist uses video to animate architecture, turning buildings into palettes

The 80-foot animated wall David Niles opened in Philadelphia’s Comcast headquarters launched his career in kinetic architecture. He now has two pieces in D.C. and more on the way. (David Niles)
“People walk through every day, and they may want to see something different,” says David Niles,...

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Nonfiction: Here Are 10 Practical Solutions to the World’s Big Problems

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Complexo do Alemão, a cluster of favelas in the north of Rio de Janeiro.

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Lalo de Almeida for The New York Times


THE FIXHow Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in DeclineBy Jonathan ...

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Eat: Chicken Tetrazzini, the Casserole Even Snobs Love

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Chicken Tetrazzini

Credit
Davide Luciano for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Alex Brannian.


In the early years of the 20th century, when the Italian opera star Luisa...

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Airbnb's Work To Fight Bias And Discrimination

Over the course of my career, I’ve learned that lasting change often begins with tough, honest conversations, genuine self-reflection, followed by bold action. In the last half century, we’ve made tremendous progress toward realizing our civil rights and equal opportunity goals....

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Saudia Davis: Using Social Media To Create Impact And Grow Your Business

If you are like most social entrepreneurs, you got into the space because you wanted to create a solution to a social problem. That was what drove me to start GreenHouse Eco-Cleaning. I saw my grandmother, a housekeeper from the West Indies, lose her battle with cancer–a disease I...

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The Moment I Knew (SUBMIT YOUR VIDEO)

At HuffPost, we’re kicking off an exciting new project and we’d love you to participate! It’s called “The Moment I Knew,” and is a user-submitted video series where readers tell the stories of life-changing moments they have experienced. Each section of HuffPost...

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Jonathan Long: How Positive Customer Reviews Can Help Your Business

A very large percentage of consumers turn to online reviews when it comes time to make a purchase decision. Whether it’s an electronics product or a medical procedure, online reviews influence purchases in every industry imaginable.


With so many options these days, especially...

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Hybrid cars: At last, the 48 show

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Surprising way laundry adds flame retardants to surface waters

Flame retardants may get into the environment through an unexpected medium: your laundry.
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Flame retardants may get into the environment through an unexpected medium: your laundry.
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Crop domestication is a balancing act: Some ants are still trying to get it right

Skinny lines of ants snake through the rainforest carrying leaves and flowers above their heads — fertilizer for industrial-scale, underground fungus farms. Soon after the dinosaur extinctions 60 million years ago, the ancestors of leaf-cutter ants swapped a hunter-gatherer lifestyle...

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Unsilencing silenced genes by CRISPR/Cas9

The ability to control gene expression in cells allows scientists to understand gene function and manipulate cell fate. Recently, scientists have developed a revolutionary gene-editing tool, called CRIPSR/Cas9, which employs a system naturally used by bacteria as protection against viruses....

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OPEC agrees to cut production; oil prices surge

OPEC agrees to cut oil production

OPEC is finally agreeing to cut oil production.
It would be the first time in eight years that the oil cartel would lower output. The agreement was reached on Wednesday at a meeting in Algiers.





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Business this week

The European Commission found that the tax advantages offered by Ireland to Apple broke EU rules on state aid and ordered it to recover €13 billion ($14.5 billion) in taxes from the company, by far the highest penalty the commission has imposed in its crackdown on corporate tax avoidance. B...

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Deutsche Bank: In a rut

THE biggest bank in Europe’s most robust economy may seem an unlikely victim of Brexit. Yet in the fortnight after Britons voted to quit the European Union Deutsche Bank’s share price tumbled by 27%—putting Germany’s biggest lender in the unexalted company of British and Italian banks. On J...

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Corporate governance in South Korea: Reconstructing Samsung

FOR many South Korean consumers, the chaebol, family-owned conglomerates that are into everything from electronics to amusement parks, are a source of pride. For investors, they can be a headache. Shareholders were reminded of this in May when Samsung proposed to merge two of its...

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Ronald P. Stanton, Trammo Founder Who Shared His Fortune, Dies at 88

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Ronald P. Stanton, at 80.

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Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times


Ronald P. Stanton, a refugee from Nazi Germany who made a fortune in petrochemicals and then gave or pledged more than $300...

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VW's new electric car will cost less, and go farther than, Tesla's Model 3

Volkswagen unveiled a new long-range electric car Tuesday in Paris, and, in terms of cost and range, it’s miles ahead of anything coming to market soon.
The car, called the I.D., is expected to cost less than $30,000, which is less than both the Tesla Model 3 and the Chevrolet...

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Another carrier experiments with child-free zones on planes

A FEW years ago a spate of airlines introduced child-free areas on their planes, in order to appeal to business travellers. Now another carrier has joined the list. This week, IndiGo, an Indian operator, said it was designating rows 1-4 and 11-14 (which includes the exit row) as “quiet z...

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Could Yahoo be in trouble with the SEC?

Yahoo is still reeling from its announcement last week that hackers stole information on 500 million user accounts, making it the largest breach in history. (Karen Bleier/Getty Images)
Yahoo said it learned of its recent massive breach, which affected more than 500 million user accounts,...

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What Trump doesn't seem to understand about leadership 'temperament'

Republican nominee Donald Trump speaks during the presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
According to the fact-checkers, Donald Trump kept them especially busy during Monday night’s first presidential debate with Hillary Cl...

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Chelsea Clinton ‘misspoke’ on marijuana risks, spokeswoman says

Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, addresses the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July. (Photo by Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)
Speaking at a town hall at Youngstown State University over the weekend, Chelsea Clinton made a ...

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Simulating technical textiles perfectly

The new T-shirt is nice and soft, it is comfortable to wear, and the fabric falls loosely. This usually meets the requirements in the field of fashion. The situation is different in the case of technical textiles. They have to meet different requirements. Compression bandages, for example,...

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Mass producing graphene using microwaves

Dr. Jieun Yang, an alumna of UNIST is part of an international team that has discovered a simple new method for producing large quantities of the promising nanomaterial graphene.

Graphene, a material that could usher in the next generation of electronic and energy devices, could be closer...

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New steel for better electric motors under development

Within a few years, the U.S. Department of Energy wants plug-in electric vehicles to be just as affordable and convenient as the internal-combustion machines most of us drive today.

But we’re not there yet.
When President Obama and the Department of Energy (DOE) launched the EV...

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Key power-splitting component for terahertz waves

One of the most basic components of any communications network is a power splitter that allows a signal to be sent to multiple users and devices. Researchers from Brown University have now developed just such a device for terahertz radiation — a range of frequencies that may one day...

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Machine learning: Of prediction and policy

FOR frazzled teachers struggling to decide what to watch on an evening off, help is at hand. An online streaming service’s software predicts what they might enjoy, based on the past choices of similar people. When those same teachers try to work out which children are most at risk of d...

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Decision-making by referendum: Interpreting the electorate’s wishes

ANYONE who has lost a close relative will have learned to beware the phrase “It’s what he/she would have wanted”. The deceased, alas, are no longer around to express their wishes. The temptation is to assume that one’s own desires coincide with those of the departed.
When it comes to the vi...

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Modi govt's first strategic sale gets Cabinet nod

The Union government formally started strategic sales on Wednesday with the Allahabad-based Bharat Pumps and Compressors (BPCL) getting the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA)’s in-principle approval for privatisation. The government has budgeted Rs 20,500 crore to come from...

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From Steven Tyler to Steve Wozniak: The Woman Rocking 'The Silicon Valley of The North'

Warning to residents of the Waterloo region of Ontario: for the next four days, things are going to get really loud. The inaugural FUZEnation technology and music summit has kicked off, bringing together visionary business leaders, tech innovators and the most forward-thinking artists in ...

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Content Marketing Takes Time, But Can Add Huge Value

Content marketing is the business buzzword du jour. Every brand, big and small, is trying to determine its content marketing strategy as a pathway to building better relationships with customers. That’s hardly a surprise, because when it’s done right, content marketing actually ...

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Your Sales Training Won't Stick Until You Modify Your Behavior

Back in the ’70s, IBM was the gold standard of sales training.
They would put their salespeople through a program that lasted up to six months and relied heavily on high-intensity role plays and simulations. While brutal for the students, the outcome was salespeople, who were ...

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Marketing Musts: Why Keeping on Top of the Latest Trends is Crucial for Business Growth

The world of commerce never stands still and if your business does that for any period of time, it runs the risk of getting left behind.
There are always new trends to consider, such as using GPS tracking to improve the efficiency of your business vehicles and keep track of your assets. The...

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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Making a Name for Yourself: How to Be a Successful Entrepreneur

Imprint Plus is a 33-year-old company. It is 100 per cent women owned. Imprint Plus today has over 35,000 customers spread out over 75 countries. We are proud to have over 26 Fortune 500 customers, but equally proud to be able to service companies that have 2 employees or 200,000 with...

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9 Tools to Run and Scale Your Marketing Agency

Did you know that you always wanted to be an entrepreneur, but now that you are, you feel like you are drowning, and it isn’t as much fun as all the entrepreneurs on Instagram and Snapchat are making it out to be?
I feel your pain.
In his popular book, E-Myth: Why Most Businesses Don’t Work a...

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5 Things to Consider Before You Open More Locations

There is no thrill quite like running a successful business—and no failure quite as painful as thinking you can replicate it, only to fall short and risk losing it all. Launching a single successful business is hard enough, but once you have proven your concept works, the allure of f...

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The True Cost of Outsourcing Software Development Overseas

One of the main reasons why so many businesses decide to outsource software development to the so-called developing countries is that foreign programmers charge less than domestic developers. Should you expect to get a quality product without spending a fortune? This is a good question...

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Starting Your Own UK Business: Tax 101

Starting your own business is an exciting time, but it can also be fraught with uncertainty. Most business owners would like to get on with running their business, but keeping track of finances is crucial. Not doing so can significantly affect your finances and could spell the end of your...

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Here"s One Succinct Takedown Of Donald Trump"s Management Style

Donald Trump has landed on yet another magazine cover. 
Bloomberg Businessweek, with predictably clever cover art, published the roughly 5,100-word profile of the Republican presidential hopeful Thursday.
The story, written by reporter Max Abelson, contains one of the most biting takedowns ye...

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10 Questions I Hope I Don't Get Asked During My Product Hunt AMA

I’m doing an “Ask Me Anything’ (AMA) session on Product Hunt tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb 23rd, 2016 at 10 am PST, 1pm EST).  

Would love for you to sign-up early, because I’m insecure, egotistical and I want to impress Ryan Hoover.  Would love for a decent number of p...

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American quadriplegic given driver's license i

Nevada’s newest driver doesn’t need a steering wheel or brake pedal to control his vehicle.
Wednesday morning, Nevada presented a driver’s license to a quadriplegic man, who the state deemed safe enough to drive his Corvette on public roads.
Sam Schmidt, a former...

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Harley Finkelstein: Do You See Faces in Everyday Objects?

By Alex Regenstreich, Iseefacestoo


“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust


I launched my business on Shopify to share images of faces found in everyday objects. This is why I did it.


Standing...

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BlackBerry outsources phone design

BlackBerry is hanging up on its smartphones. The iconic Canadian company will now outsource development and design. It’ll instead collect a royalty on phones sold by partners. It had earlier outsourced phone manufacturing to the Taiwanese company, Foxconn.
BlackBerry...

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Morning Agenda: Wells Fargo Clawback, Standard Chartered Investigated, Ex-A.I.G. Chief Testifies

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John G. Stumpf, the chief executive of Wells Fargo, in Washington. The bank has announced that it will claw back pay worth $41 million from him.

Credit
Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times


First,...

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Eleven things you should know about Trump’s new D.C. hotel, even if you’re not going to go there

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s newest hotel opens in a “soft launch” just blocks from the White House, as protesters gather outside the lobby. (Reuters)

Anything with the name ‘Trump’ stamped on the side of it is likely to kindle strong feelings this ele...

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The Deepwater Horizon spill may have caused ‘irreversible’ damage to Gulf Coast marshes

Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill floats on the water in 2010 as the sky is reflected in sheen on Barataria Bay, off the coast of Louisiana. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill has been called one of the worst environmental disasters in American...

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THE MODERATOR: Lester Holt, Given a Choice Assignment, Opted for Restraint

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Holt’s Moderation Gets Mixed Reviews


Lester Holt, moderator of the first presidential debate of the election, drew gripes from both sides, but seemed to avoid the kind of harsh criticism given to Matt Lauer, who moderated a town hall weeks earlier.

...

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Entrepreneurship: Maine’s ‘Clean’ Medical Marijuana: ‘Organic’ in Disguise

Prices are flat already. Ms. Haywood typically sells her marijuana for $10 a gram (0.035 ounce), but other growers are charging less and offering discounts for buying by the ounce. Margins are tight, but the business provides growers with a steady, if small, income, Ms. Haywood said, adding...

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Darilyn Aquino: Top 3 Mistakes Newbie Entrepreneurs Make and Their Solutions

In the current entrepreneurship boom we are experiencing nowadays, it is quite common that novice business owners — as well as those with more experience — make very frequent mistakes due to a lack of legal counseling and experience.


The top three legal mistakes entrepreneurs...

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You"ve Got... Grant Achatz

World-renowned chef Grant Achatz discusses his recipe for restaurant success and what it was like to create innovative dishes when he lost his sense o…
Read more: Grant Achatz Alinea, Progressive American, Next, The Aviary, Grant Achatz, Alinea, Small Business Video, You"ve Got,...

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Daniel DiPiazza: Why Boredom Is The Superpower Of The 21st Century

Our world is a hive and we buzz around glued to our phones, anxious to fill up the silence.


I take the opposite approach. I flood my senses with silence.


Every morning, just as the sun is coming up, I sit down at my desk to write. I’m talking deliberate writing, with a serious...

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The Economist explains: Why air-pollution apps can be misleading

A GROWING number of apps, such as London Air and AIRNow, are available for metropolitan residents worried about air pollution. In many big cities, including London and Paris, such apps indicate that air quality is good almost every day. At the same time, reports from government agencies...

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Fungi recycle rechargeable lithium-ion batteries

Although rechargeable batteries in smartphones, cars and tablets can be charged again and again, they don’t last forever. Old batteries often wind up in landfills or incinerators, potentially harming the environment. And valuable materials remain locked inside. Now, a team of...

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New winter wheat variety offers high yields, disease resistance

High yields and an excellent disease resistance package — these are qualities producers can expect from Oahe, the new winter wheat cultivar released by the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, according to South Dakota State University assistant professor Sunish Sehgal.

Bill...

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E. coli: The ideal transport vehicle for next-gen vaccines?

Most people recoil at the thought of ingesting E. coli. But what if the headline-grabbing bacteria could be used to fight disease?

Researchers experimenting with harmless strains of E. coli — yes, the majority of E. coli are safe and important to healthy human digestion — are...

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The emperor’s new paunch

PAUL ROMER made his name modelling the production of knowledge and the growth of economies. Now the World Bank’s chief economist, his latest, unusual, contribution to economics includes a “meta-model” of himself. “For more than three decades,” he alleges, “macroeconomics has gone backwards....

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Correction: Own goal

UK Only Article: 
standard article
Issue: 
Uberworld
Print section
In our story on Chinese investment in football, of August 27th, we exaggerated the valuations of two clubs, Aston Villa and Granada, by a factor of ten....

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Postal Savings Bank of China: A red-letter IPO

Not exactly Silicon Valley

FEW companies are able to go public with a valuation of more than $50 billion less than a decade after their founding. This rarefied group, which mainly consists of tech darlings, is about to admit a surprising new member: a large, lumbering Chinese bank. Postal...

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Corporate governance in South Korea: Samsung scores a victory for South Korea's succession tradition

SAMSUNG pulled out the stops to woo investors in Samsung C&T, the group’s construction and trading division, ahead of a much-anticipated shareholders’ meeting on July 17th. Watermelons and walnut cakes were hand-delivered to shareholders’ homes; text messages implored them ...

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China's death care market faces no overcapacity

Sea burial, tree burial and flower burial s are being promoted in Beijing, Shanghai and other cities, according to China Merchants Securities.
Tree burial entails burying the ashes of the deceased underground, while flower burial entails disseminating ashes in flower beds.
In...

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Wells Fargo CEO forfeits $41 million as company launches probe

by Matt Egan and Jackie Wattles   @CNNMoneyInvest September 27, 2016: 10:36 PM ET









Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf will forfeit much of his 2016 salary — including his bonus and $41 million in stock awards — as the bank launches a probe into its phony ...

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Split ends

LAST month Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), an American firm that owns financial exchanges, said it would do a stock split, dividing each of its existing shares into five new ones. The split won’t increase ICE’s underlying value—slicing a pizza three or four times doesn’t make it bigger. Bu...

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‘Skittles’ photo gets taken down from Donald Trump Jr.’s tweet

(Screengrab by Hayley Tsukayama)
Donald Trump Jr.’s now-infamous “Skittles tweet” has been widely shared across the world and embedded on countless websites.
Trump tweeted the picture, with a caption that compared the refugee crisis to a poisoned bowl of candy, with the ...

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Holding out hope for a bigger raise or bonus in 2017? Don’t.

According to a new survey, employers say they’re not planning to increase budgets for raises and bonuses for 2017. (Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images)
Anyone hoping his employer is planning to put more into raises and bonuses next year is likely to be disappointed. 
Human resources cons...

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Trump, Clinton target trade deals at a time when globalization is stalling

Container boxes are seen at the Yangshan Deep Water Port, part of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, in Shanghai, China September 24, 2016. Picture taken September 24, 2016. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
The steady march of globalization that powered the world economy for the past 30 years is...

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The 'worm' holds the key to treating epilepsy

Current methods to control epilepsy, which affects 1 in 26 Americans, are not only inefficient but haven’t improved in more than 150 years when the first anticonvulsant drug was developed. Treatment options include invasive surgeries and a combination of antiepileptic drugs that...

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Have scientists cracked clothes to power your phone?

Industrial design researchers at Brunel University London have solved two of the major challenges which prevent everyday items of clothing being turned into power sources for smartphones, tablets and other personal tech.

Technology to produce supercapacitor thread capable of being made into...

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Making catalysts smarter

The industrial catalysts of the future won’t just speed up reactions, they’ll control how chemical processes work and determine how much of a particular product is made.

A team of researchers led by Phillip Christopher, assistant professor of chemical and environmental...

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New detector overcomes key challenge in using light for wireless communications

Today’s high-speed wired communication networks use lasers to carry information through optical fibers, but wireless networks are currently based on radio frequencies or microwaves. In an advance that could one day make light-based wireless communications ubiquitous, researchers from...

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'Missing link' found in the development of bioelectronic medicines

New research, led by the University of Southampton, has demonstrated that a nanoscale device, called a memristor, could be the ‘missing link’ in the development of implants that use electrical signals from the brain to help treat medical conditions.

Monitoring neuronal cell...

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First quantum photonic circuit with an electrically driven light source

Whether for use in safe data encryption, ultrafast calculation of huge data volumes or so-called quantum simulation of highly complex systems: Optical quantum computers are a source of hope for tomorrow’s computer technology. For the first time, scientists now have succeeded in placing...

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Game on: The travel industry has been quick to jump on the Pokémon Go bandwagon

ONLY readers living under a rock for the past two months will be unaware of Pokémon Go. The smartphone game, which overlays augmented-reality onto real-world locations, has been downloaded some 100m times on Google Play alone. Players hunt for their favourite characters at “Pokéstops” and s...

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European defence: Potemkin Euro-armies

THE idea of a European army is as old as the hope for European unity. After creating the European Coal and Steel Community, the embryo of today’s European Union, the six founding members agreed in 1952 to form a supranational European force. But the plan was voted down by the French p...

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India jumps 16 spots on Competitiveness Index

India jumped 16 places for the second year in a row to the 39th rank on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Competitiveness Index 2016-17. It was ranked 55th in 2015-16. This is the largest gain made by any country on the list.
Switzerland was ranked the most competitive country for the e...

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6 Ways to Convince Your Boss That Traveling is Important

With leaner budgets and so much technology that enables online interactions with customers and prospects, the idea of a business trip doesn’t seem as beneficial as it once did, in terms of staying in contact with others. As an active writer with a busy speaking schedule, I actually have to r...

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How VR Will Change the Way We Work

We’ve been writing a lot about virtual reality lately, and for a good reason. It’s looking like VR might be the next seismic shift in how we experience computing. Just like the Internet changed the way we interact with machines and information, VR could take us to another level o...

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5 Essential Tips for Networking in Real Estate

Learning how to network effectively is a must if you work in real estate. After all, networking is fundamental to the success of any real estate business. When I consider this fact, always I’m surprised by the number of developers and realtors who don’t take advantage of incredible net...

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5 Simple, Low-Budget Growth Hacks to Increase App Downloads

Are you looking for simple strategies that can lead to thousands — if not millions — of downloads? Are you looking for out-of-the-box app marketing ideas to help your app get discovered? Getting downloads for your app is a tough task. But here are five simple growth hacks to help ...

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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Scaling Sales Training the Right Way

Technology is transforming the sales industry, and bringing new challenges. Thanks to the Internet and Social Media platforms, today’s customers have all the power. They expect nothing less than a superior customer experience. And if they don’t get a superior experience at every touch point f...

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A 5-Step Framework for Selling on Social Media

How many of you are frustrated with the time you spend on social media compared to the results you get? Social media is continuing to grow, with more platforms and more users.
But spending all that time on social media channels needs to have a clear impact on revenue.
People are not ...

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Here's the Top 20 Fastest-Growing Franchises of the Year

This is a snippet of a larger article that originally appeard in a 2016 issue of Entrepreneur.
The franchising business is booming, and nowhere is that more evident than Entrepreneur’s fastest-growing franchises ranking. Growth is the goal of every franchise system, of course, but not all ach...

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Leveraging UV Light for a Healthier and Safer Space

The dreadful multistate E. coli outbreak at Chipotle, which hospitalized 21 and prompted JP Morgan analysts to forecast the company will have lost three years of earnings between fiscal years 2014 and 2017, has underscored the extent to which all businesses—not just food service—are vul...

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