SkpSoft Business News Feed: November 2016

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

McDonald's franchisee who created Big Mac dies

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In this Aug. 21, 2008, file photo, Big Mac creator Michael “Jim” Delligatti attends his 90th birthday party in Canonsburg, Pa. Delligatti, the Pittsburgh-area McDonald’s franchisee who created the Big Mac in 1967, has died. He was 98.

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Carrier: Trump gave us state 'incentives' to save jobs

Carrier: Trump gave us state ‘incentives’ to save jobs – Nov. 30, 2016

Carrier is keeping more than 1,000 jobs in Indiana — thanks to “incentives” offered by the state run by Vice President-elect Mike Pence.
Carrier released a few more...

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How companies should treat their most enthusiastic customers

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Jonathan Long: 7 Ways to Convert More of Your Holiday Website Traffic into Sales

We are in the middle of the holiday season, which is a prime time to generate increased online revenue. Last year, holiday season U.S. retail e-commerce spending from desktop computers for the entire November-December holiday season topped $56.4 billion.

That figure is impressive, but...

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Ross and Mnuchin are relatively safe choices - analyst

President-elect Donald Trump picks ex-Goldman Sachs Steven Mnuchin to lead the U.S. Treasury Department and billionaire Wilbur Ross for the Commerce, and Wall Street breathes a sigh of relief, says an analyst. Bobbi Rebell reports.
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Breakingviews: Steven Mnuchin Is More Pragmatist Than Ideologue

President-elect Donald J. Trump has made an illogically logical choice for his Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin.
Mr. Mnuchin’s Wall Street past will rankle Democrats. But unlike many people whom Mr. Trump has put on his team, he is neither an ideologue nor a populist. He is also well q...

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Japanese homebuilder, Sidwell Friends buying Fannie Mae headquarters

The Fannie Mae headquarters building on Wisconsin Avenue N.W. (TWP)
Japanese home-building giant Sekisui House announced Wednesday that it is buying the main Fannie Mae headquarters building on Wisconsin Avenue NW in an $89 million deal for one of the largest development sites in the ...

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Dot Earth Blog: TED’s Science Curator Sees Hope in Earth’s Anthropocene Age

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Earlier this month I had a chat on the fate of the planet and humanity in a Brooklyn bookstore with David Biello, who recently became curator of science at TED (as in talks) after many years at Scientific American. The subject was his first book, “Unnatural World: The Race t...

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Modern Love: The Modern Love Podcast: Dan Savage Reads ‘DJ’s Homeless Mommy’

In this week’s podcast, the author and advice columnist Dan Savage reads “DJ’s Homeless Mommy,” his 2005 essay about the baggage that can come with an open adoption.
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Netflix is finally letting you download videos for offline viewing

Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings has grappled with the company’s international reach and the connectivity issues that come with it. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)
Netflix will allow customers to download some shows and movies to their devices for offline viewing, fulfilling ...

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Trump's Treasury nominee: People 'that wanted to stop being friends, they’ve all come back'

Steven Mnuchin arrives at the Trump Tower for meetings with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Trump named Mnuchin for U.S. Treasury Secretary, filling key slots on his economic team. Trump also announced plans to leave his businesses to avoid any conflict of interest. (AFP PHOTO Eduardo M...

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Bharara, key Wall Street prosecutor, will remain Manhattan U.S. attorney under Trump

Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks briefly to reporters at Trump Tower, Nov. 30. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
NEW YORK — Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Wednesday that he had accepted President-elect Donald Trump’s...

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Entrepreneurship: How Banza, a Chickpea Pasta Start-Up, Thrives on Attention

Yet the public humiliation would pay off handsomely for Mr. Rudolph and his brother, Scott, the chief financial officer.

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Brian Rudolph, in particular, understood throughout the journey from obscurity to the shelves of nationwide retailers that drawing...

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Jared Hecht: Learn How Commercial Real Estate Loans Work

Buying real estate for your small business? It’s an exciting move, but also a stressful one.

Expanding to a new location or just renovating your current space is a big step for a small business owner–so you should know the ins and outs of the process before you get too far...

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Jessica Lui: Conference Stars: How to Get the Most Out of Conferences (Part Two)

This is the first of a two part article titled:“Conference Stars: How to Get the Most Out of Conferences”.

You can read Part One here.

You’ll be making a lot of first impressions during the event, and it helps to look sharp. Some conference attendees will opt to...

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Is the anger over trade justified?

Economics and populism: Schrödinger’s Brexit

Payday pressure no big deal, says SBI

Early withdrawals in November, shift to e-payments reduces load; servicing rural areas remains a challenge

The country’s largest bank State Bank of India expects less pressure from demand for cash in “payday week” in Decem...

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The 3 Things You Must Do to Build Your Network

The strength of your professional network can make or break you in the early days of your startup. Trust me, I should know.
When we launched Unshackled Ventures, a firm focused on immigrant entrepreneurs, we started with a simple thesis: retain and attract the best entrepreneurs in the...

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This 10-Year-Old Kidpreneur Swam on TV's 'Shark Tank'

Perhaps you recently watched 10-year-old Jack Bonneau, from Broomfield, Colorado, on ABC-TV’s Shark Tank, show pitching his lemonade stand and marketplace business and picking up a $50,000 low-interest loan from billionaire venture capitalist Chris Sacca.
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3 Ways Small Businesses Can Profit from Local Outreach

Small business marketing is tough — especially on a shoestring budget — so developing a community outreach program is an excellent way to gain local traction and up visibility without a huge investment. Here are three low-cost community outreach strategies that add real value to y...

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How to Overcome Writer's Block and Create Great Ad Copy

The following excerpt is from Craig Simpson and Brian Kurtz’s book The Advertising Solution. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes
The tendency for the mind to go blank and lose touch with any creative impulse has stymied the efforts of many copywriters. But legendary copywri...

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Burn Calories at Work and Increase Productivity with an Ergonomic Sequel Lift Desk

Business owners can burn an extra 120 calories a day by standing for 4 hours with the Sequel Lift Desk.

Sequel Office set a new standard for efficient and organized workspaces. BDI continues to raise the bar with the Sequel Lift Desk.
Home Business Magazine recently received a Sequel Lift...

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Retiring: College Towns Can Be Attractive Later in Life

“The economy is really stable in college towns,” said Bertrand Sperling, an author and researcher who created the website www.bestplaces.net. “Retirees don’t want to live where businesses are closing, the economy is suffering and services are becoming curtailed.”

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4 Tips for Protecting the Corporate Veil

In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Mark Kohler discusses how to protect yourself in a corporation or LLC.
Protecting the corporate veil is vital to prevent yourself from being sued personally in matters related to your business. In order to help you prevent any issues with the law, ...

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Grant Tinker, Former Chairman of NBC, Dies at 90

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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Ackman's fund asks SEC for exemption after campaign donation

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss
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BOSTON Pershing Square Capital Management, the hedge fund firm run by billionaire William Ackman, wants to be exempted from possibly having to return millions of dollars in fees after a former employee donated $500 to a family...

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Trump taps ex-Goldman banker Mnuchin for Treasury post

by Chris Isidore and Phil Mattingly @CNNMoney November 29, 2016: 6:18 PM ET

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs banker who profited from the housing meltdown, as his Treasury secretary, according to an official briefed ...

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How “driver mode” for phones will affect those who work behind the wheel

FOR business travellers moving between cities, there’s no better place to get work done than the train. But for travellers in America, going by rail is generally not an option outside of the transit corridor from Washington, DC to Boston. And so people covering ground for business are often f...

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Loolwa Khazzoom: Get Endorsed by VIPs in Your Field

A successful media, marketing, and PR campaign is a game of psychology, a matter of perception. I find that it’s based on three components: media, VIPs, and venues. By leveraging one, you get the other, in a never-ending synergistic loop, all the while rising to the top. Today...

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Kellogg Pulls Ads From News Site Run By Top Trump Adviser

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Kellogg says it will no longer advertise on Breitbart.com, the website formerly run by one of President-elect Donald Trump’s top aides, Steve Bannon.
Kellogg Co. spokeswoman Kris Charles says the food company regularly works with media buyers to ensure i...

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Steven Mnuchin Is Donald Trump’s Expected Choice for Treasury Secretary

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Steven Terner Mnuchin at Trump Tower in Manhattan this month.

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WASHINGTON — Steven Terner Mnuchin, a financier with deep roots on Wall Street and in Hollywood b...

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D.C. United stadium faces scrutiny at zoning commission

By Shaun Courtney November 29 at 3:48 PM

D.C. United is trying to get zoning approval for its planned 19,000-seat stadium in Southwest D.C. (DCU/Populous)
Members of the D.C. Zoning Commission peppered D.C. United officials with questions about the team’s stadium plans Monday, raising c...

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Pope Francis: “Never been such a clear need for science” to protect the planet

Pope Francis greets physicist Stephen Hawking at a plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican. (L’Osservatore Romano via AP)
Pope Francis this week implored world leaders not to postpone the implementation of global environmental pacts, an appeal that appeared a...

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SiriusXM Agrees to Pay Up to $99 Million to Settle Turtles-Backed Copyright Suit

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The Turtles in 1967. From left, in the back row, Al Nichol, Jim Tucker, Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, and, in front, Johnny Barbara, left, and Jim Pon.

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That shopping app you downloaded might be fake

(Michael Dwyer/Associated Press)
Fake news isn’t the only thing that smartphone users should be cautious about these days.
As the holiday shopping season is in full swing, a slew of fake retail apps are appearing in smartphone app stores. These apps, which usually look like of...

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This IBM employee quit over her CEO's letter to Donald Trump

IBM chief executive Ginni Rometty speaks at an IBM Watson event in New York in 2014. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
Most CEO letters are greeted by employees with a yawn. But after IBM CEO Ginni Rometty wrote a public letter to president-elect Donald Trump, one of her employees decided to...

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Trump just named a new health secretary who might push to undo one of his biggest promises

Tom Price
Donald Trump ran for president as a conservative populist, not a traditional Republican. He blasted free trade deals. He embraced massive government infrastructure spending. And he promised to safeguard two massive – and massively popular – safety-net programs for ...

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How this STEM school is shattering stereotypes

Dr. Ellis Crasnow (center) with students on the first day of school.

At STEM3 Academy, sticking to the norm doesn’t work.
In fact, the school was launched to do just the opposite.
“Our emphasis is on learning versus teaching,” said Dr. Ellis Crasnow, the...

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Jared Hecht: How to Start Building Your Credit Fast

We’re thinking of a number between 300 and 850… and it’s your credit score.

Do you know what it is? And most importantly, is it where you want it to be?

Unless you have an absolutely perfect credit score–850–we’re willing to bet that you’d...

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Daniel DiPiazza: Entrepreneurialism vs Freelancing: What's the Difference?

A few years ago, I was watching an interview with Seth Godin, who is one of my heroes of the business world. He was explaining the core differences between entrepreneurship and freelancing. I was getting heated just listening to him.

Here’s how Seth explains it:

Freelancers get...

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How Trump's health secretary pick would replace Obamacare

Tax credits to buy insurance on the individual market. Incentives to sock money away in Health Savings Accounts. Limits on employer-sponsored plans. High-risk pools to cover the sick.
These are some of the ways Tom Price, Donald Trump’s choice as Secretary of the...

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A costly distraction: A bad time to be cutting Britain’s corporate-tax rate

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Economists are talking nonsense on GDP decline: Aditya Puri, HDFC Bank MD

Puri says demonetisation shouldn’t be looked at as an event in itself but as a series of events moving the economy towards greater transparency

The government’s move to scrap old notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 de...

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3 Key Questions to Ask When Designing an Incentive-Compensation Plan

We are big fans of incentive compensation for two reasons: First, a well-designed system can motivate employees to deliver the performance you want.
Related: The Wells Fargo Lesson? You Need Smart Incentives to Motivate Your Team.
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4 Excuses We Make To Ourselves When We Hire the Wrong People

Far too often — even in loose labor markets — we find ourselves hiring the wrong people. Once that’s happened, we are often stuck with these people; or at least we tell ourselves we are. But that’s not smart, because hiring the wrong people is bad for business and, wor...

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Personal Trainers Reveal the Most Important Things You Can Do to Help Your New Business Succeed

The following excerpt is from the staff of Entrepreneur Media’s book Start Your Own Personal Training Business. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes
Nothing teaches like the voice of experience. So we asked owners of established personal training operations to tell us w...

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The World-Changing Power of Sharing Your Story

There is power in storytelling, which is why many entrepreneurs, executives and brand representatives wonder how to share their personal stories effectively. They may not be sure of when, where, why and what to share. How much transparency, authenticity and vulnerability is too much?
We can l...

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Payday Loans and Why They Are Important

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Creative Destruction: Move Fast and Break Things

Mark Zuckerberg’s most famous quotation is “Unless you are breaking stuff, you aren’t moving fast enough.” It’s become common advice for entrepreneurs looking to get ahead. It’s insightful because it lets us know that there’s a tradeoff: move fast and break things, or move slow an...

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Facebook axes Zuckerberg's fake news posts

Facebook accidentally removed the wrong kind of fake news stories.
Two recent posts from CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressing the controversy over fake news spreading on Facebook (FB, Tech30) were briefly deleted on Tuesday. The posts re-appeared after media outlets called attention to the...

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Monday, November 28, 2016

More people shopped over Thanksgiving weekend than last year — but they spent less

Byron Siekavizza wheels his television to his car as he gets a jump-start on shopping for deals at Best Buy on Thanksgiving in Alexandria. (Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post)
About 154 million shoppers made purchases at stores or on e-commerce sites this holiday weekend, the National Retail...

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Time Inc reportedly rejects $1.8 billion takeover bid

How much are People, Time, Sports Illustrated and their corporate siblings worth?
Perhaps $1.8 billion, if you believe the recent report of a takeover offer by a group of billionaire investors.
The New York Post reported late Sunday night that Time Inc. rejected the $1.8 billion offer,...

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British mutual-fund fees are too high

John Rampton: 5 Secrets to Successful Infographic Creation and Dissemination

Infographics have played a huge role in blogging and content marketing this year, and you should expect the same to be true in 2017 and beyond. However, since infographic creation is half art and half science, very few people have a thorough understanding of what it takes to be successful....

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Wall St slips as banks, discretionary stocks drag

U.S. stocks declined on Monday for their worst performance in nearly a month, weighed down by a pullback in the financial and consumer discretionary sectors as some investors booked profits on the heels of a record-setting week. Bobbi Rebell reports.

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James C. Woolery Leaves Hudson Executive Capital Hedge Fund

The veteran deal maker James C. Woolery has left Hudson Executive Capital, the activist hedge fund he co-founded, the firm said on Monday.
In a statement, the firm said that Mr. Woolery had resigned “due to personal reasons.” It added, “We are grateful for the help that Jim provided in the su...

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His dad is worth $3.5 billion. At 50, the son left the family business.

Frank Saul inside the Patterson Mansion he is renovating with his new company, Saul Urban. (Pete Marovich for The Washington Post)
The last time Frank Saul gave an interview to a newspaper reporter, it was characteristically brief.
A 2012 filing from his father’s company revealed that Sau...

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Dot Earth Blog: What Changed, and Didn’t, After the 1988 Slaying of a Rain Forest Hero in Brazil

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The Fight to Save the Amazon

In 1988, the murder of Chico Mendes sparked a movement of environmental activists, celebrities and indigenous peoples that made saving the Brazilian rain forest an international rallying cry. But what is happening there now?

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Breakingviews: A Failed Bid for Time Inc. May Be Only a Start

Time Inc. owners may yet send a note of thanks to Edgar Bronfman Jr. Mr. Bronfman, the Seagram heir, teamed up with the Warner Music owner Len Blavatnik to make a bid for the $1.4 billion magazine company — an offer that was rejected, according to The New York Post.
The 30 percent premium o...

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San Francisco’s light-rail system was held hostage by hackers

A San Francisco Municipal Railroad (MUNI) train passing through the Mission Bay neighborhood. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images).
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency was hit with malware that held its computer systems hostage on Friday and caused problems over ...

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Having a younger boss isn't just awkward. New research suggests it could also hurt performance.

A new academic study from Germany examined the link between younger managers and older subordinates. (iStock)
It’s an awkward experience so relatable — the older employee who works for a younger boss — that Hollywood has made movies about it. Remember Dennis ...

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This could be the first big test of whether Donald Trump can keep his campaign promises

Donald Trump arrives for his election night rally at the New York Hilton Midtown in Manhattan. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters)
On Thanksgiving Day, President-elect Donald Trump hinted he is in contact with Carrier, a manufacturing company that has been in the spotlight for plans to move 2,000 jobs ...

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How to fight cyberthreats — on the cheap

When it comes to defending against cyberattacks, a common strategy includes investing in costly hardware and software products, and then shoring up both frequently. But there is a more effective and affordable way to fight cyberterrorism.
Nearly 70 percent of respondents said their...

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Gabrielle Pfeiffer: How Small Businesses Can Attract and Keep Customers

It’s hard for small, local businesses to succeed in big cities when they are surrounded by huge corporations that compete for the same markets. It takes some time for a company to make a name and a reputation for themselves, but they still have to pay the bills.

I interviewed Binu...

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Valerie Alexander: When it Comes to Building Your Business, Giving Thanks is Everything

In this week, when our entire country pauses to give thanks for what we have (at least, I hope that’s what we’re doing, and not just stuffing our faces and running out the door to save on the latest toys), now is the perfect time to share the importance of expressing thanks to...

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The global bond-market sell-off tests Japan’s ability to keep yields down

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Letters to the editor: On Turkish politics, Brexit, GM crops, Airbnb, trade, autism, cricket

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Govt working on lower costs for cashless sales in jewellery

Piyush Goyal, Union power minister, told jewellers in South Mumbai on Saturday to go cashless and assured them the government was working on reducing the costs involved in such transactions.

“I am aware of what you did on Tuesday night when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the wi...

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AR and VR Require Better Hardware, Software and Power for Mass Adoption

On July 6, 2016, Niantic released its augmented reality (AR) game, Pokémon Go. Over the course of the following few weeks, the game, according to SensorTower, was downloaded more than 15 million times, attracted 21 million active daily users and pulled in more than $160 million in under a m...

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How Your Business Can Thrive Even When a Recession Bites Hard

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How to Shift Your Mindset and Focus on Helping Others

I’m finally getting a chance to share some of what I’ve been learning at this meditation academy in India on The School of Greatness.
One of the most powerful mindset shifts I’ve made so far is learning that there are really only two states of being I’m ever in: Suffering or beauty.
Seems too...

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3 Ways to Read Your Customers' Minds

Admit it. As a business owner, you know you secretly dream about prospective customers or clients reading your sales copy or seeing your Facebook ad and instantly shouting, “Yes! That’s exactly what I need! It’s like you’ve read my mind! Where do I buy...

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Benefits of Glass Partitions in Your Office

Everyone dreads being condemned to live out their professional lives hunkered down in oblique office cubicles with little hope of escape. While office layouts and furniture must be functional, that doesn’t mean the environment must be designed to crush the souls of your employees. Cubicles a...

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Sketch Guy: Stop Spending Based on Other People’s Wealth

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You know what’s worse than judging a book by its cover? Judging a book by its cover, and then making financial decisions based on what you assume the book might tell you.
Here in New Zealand, where I’m spe...

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Restaurant Owners Reveal their Success Secrets

The following excerpt is from the staff of Entrepreneur Media’s book Start Your Own Restaurant and More. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes
Nothing teaches as well as the voice of experience. So we asked established foodservice business operators to tell us what’s con...

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Delta Air Lines Bans Trump Supporter for Disrupting Flight

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Sunday, November 27, 2016

3 Facts About Email Marketing That Make or Break Campaigns

Does your brand obsess over marketing? Good. Does your marketing team constantly try to stay up to date and fresh with their marketing? Great. Do they tend to abandon older technologies, and assume that they’re obsolete? Hold up.

American adults spend, on average, around 11...

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Winning $421 million Powerball ticket sold in Tennessee

A winning Powerball ticket worth $420.9 million was sold in Lafayette, Tennessee, in the state’s second-largest lottery jackpot ever, the Tennessee Lottery said Sunday.
The winning numbers were 17-19-21-37-44, and the Powerball was 16.
Saturday’s jackpot was the 12th...

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Malaysia’s central bank tries to stem a slide in the ringgit

“THERE is no new policy on capital flows. There is no proxy capital control either,” insisted Muhammad Ibrahim, governor of Malaysia’s central bank, in a dinner speech on November 18th. This echoed a similar central-bank promise 15 months ago. For those hoping to bring money in and out of Mal...

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Robot concierge “Ray” parks cars hassle-free

STORY: Stress-free parking is guaranteed at Germany’s Dusseldorf Airport, where travellers can call on the help of “Ray,” the world’s first robot concierge to park and deliver cars to their owners automatically.
Developed by Bavarian firm, Serva...

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Standing Rock Supporters May Block Canadian Pipelines: Chief

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. — A Manitoba indigenous chief says there’s a desire for action — which could include blockades of Canadian pipelines and railways — in support of a protest against a North Dakota pipeline project.
Grand Chief Terry Nelson of the Southern Chiefs Organ...

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Economic View: Trump, and Great Business Ideas for America

A businessman with a lifetime of experience in management has been elected president of the United States. Donald J. Trump’s administration may be viewed as an experiment — an opportunity to discover whether one particular businessman’s perspective and skills will be assets in governing a nat...

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Trump dumped his stock in the Dakota Access pipeline owner over the summer

Construction continues on the Dakota Access pipeline near the town of Cannon Ball, N.D., in October. (Reuters/Josh Morgan)
President-elect Donald Trump sold off his shares of Energy Transfer Partners, the owner of the $3.7 billion Dakota Access pipeline that has become the focus of...

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Combative, Populist Steve Bannon Found His Man in Donald Trump

‘Working 100 Hours a Week’
Friends at Harvard and later at Goldman Sachs were aware of Mr. Bannon’s conservative views, but politics was rarely discussed. “He was in mergers and acquisitions, I was in corporate finance, and we were both working 100 hours a week,” said Scot Vorse, who met Mr. ...

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Trump’s pick for attorney general could be bad news for Silicon Valley

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) speaks to reporters on Nov. 18 at Trump Tower in New York, where President-elect Donald Trump lives and has an office. (Andrew Gombert/European Pressphoto Agency)
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general probably wouldn’t have been the tech ind...

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Talking leadership with the country's chief technology officer

Megan Smith, OSTP (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
Megan Smith is the U.S. chief technology officer and assistant to the president. Smith—an engineer, entrepreneur, technology evangelist and former vice president at Google—spoke with Tom Fox about her views of government, inc...

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How Paul Ryan’s ‘profound debate’ could draw in Donald Trump

The Trump International Hotel in D.C. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post)
Late in October 2015, shortly before he would become speaker of the House, Paul Ryan delivered a sermon on the subject of crony capitalism.
“This is a profound debate we are having,” he told his colleagues, in a...

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Indonesian villagers cooking with gas - from garbage

June 15 – A community in East Java, Indonesia, is turning methane from the local garbage dump into gas for more than 400 homes. Local authorities have set up a system where methane produced by rotting waste is extracted and pumped to villages nearby, turning greenhouse gas emissions...

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Michael Mamas: The Storm Before the Calm - Which Generation Will Hear the Wake-Up Call?

1929, the Roaring Twenties. It was a time of carefree prosperity and stock market optimism that overtook the thirties. It seemed like everybody was getting rich, only to be followed by the Great Depression. December 7, 1941, the radar station based in Hawaii saw the planes coming. They were...

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Brian de Haaff: There Is an Elephant in Your Office

You are not imagining things. There is indeed an elephant in your office. Everyone tries to tip-toe around the beast — yet it is becoming increasingly difficult. You see, he started off small, but now he is enormous.

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Breaking the habit: The future of oil

Deere plows higher on Trump construction boom hopes

Nothing runs like a Deere — or John Deere stock. And there are hopes that the company could continue to plow higher thanks to President-elect Donald Trump’s ambitious infrastructure spending plans.
Shares of John Deere (DE) surged nearly 10% Wednesday to an...

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Basel bust-up: A showdown looms over bank-capital rules

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Rs 8,600 crore worth stalled highway projects turn chronic

These road contracts are spread across Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and West Bengal

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3 Dangerous Ways You May Be Failing Your Employees

We spend so much time focusing on the nuances of leadership that we often forget about the very definition of leadership and what we — as business owners, CEOs, executives and managers — should tangibly be doing to help our employees grow into the best versions of themselves...

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6 Proven Ways Content Marketing Benefits your Small Business

For small and local businesses, it can be hard to stand out against larger nationwide brands. However, content marketing can help your small business attract attention, and for relevant niches in your industry, too.
Content marketing is a marketing approach that involves creating and...

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3 Lessons to Learn From the Marriott-Starwood Merger

We’ve just passed the one-year anniversary of Marriott and Starwood Hotel’s merger announcement — and the happy couple is settling in just fine, having completed the $13 billion acquisition in September of this year.
Related: Sheraton-Owner Starwood Accepts Higher Takeover Offer F...

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5 Signs Your Small Business Is Using the Wrong Online Marketing Partner

Many small business owners rely on external help in a broad range of fields. Everything from shipping out admin to virtual assistants to hiring an HR expert can free up time while ensuring your business stays on track. Another common activity for small businesses is to outsource their...

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Fair Game: The Kind of Car Insurer That Gives Consumers the Best Value

Are people better off when they buy things from companies that don’t have public shareholders they need to please?
The answer, at least in the nearly $200 billion auto insurance industry, appears to be yes.
That’s the conclusion of a new and comprehensive study examining the claims-paying his...

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How to Build a Side Hustle Into a Massive Success

Natalie MacNeil is an Emmy Award-winning producer and the bestselling author of She Takes on the World, The Conquer Kit and Conquer Your Year.
MacNeil is now focused on transforming businesses around the world through The Conquer Club, a 12-month incubator program for entrepreneurs. She has a...

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Stocks week ahead: Sizing up Black Friday

Stocks week ahead: Sizing up Black Friday biopsy; O’Hare strike; U.S. jobs – Nov. 27, 2016

1. Black Friday biopsy: How much did Americans splurge on shopping’s biggest weekend? Decent, but not if you’re a brick-and-mortar location.
Buoyed by strong...

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Saturday, November 26, 2016

Held for Ransom

One of the hardest attacks to defend against is a distributed denial of service attack. In October of 2016, the Mirai botnet launched DDoS attacks against multiple well-defended web services such as Amazon, Netflix, and Reddit. Even though these websites have protections against denial of s...

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Flying to Cuba: What you need to know

Flying to Cuba: What you need to know – Nov. 26, 2016

Hoping to fly to Cuba? It’s complicated.
Cuba-watchers long-expected it would take the death of Fidel Castro for the U.S. to open travel links to Cuba, but many of those restrictions were already lifted...

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The future of the A380

Lisa Larter: How Social Media Can Close the Sale

Do you feel like social media is just one big pitch fest when for businesses? It seems like everywhere you turn someone is yelling at you, “BUY MY STUFF, BUY MY STUFF”.

Many entrepreneurs (and sometimes even big corporate companies) spend zero time emotionally connecting...

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Leonard Cohen's Music Sales, Streaming Rise Over 400 Per Cent

Leonard Cohen’s music sales and streaming plays have risen over 400 per cent following his death earlier this month.
In the week ending November 17, Cohen sold 56,000 albums, according to Billboard’s charts. His songs saw 72,000 downloads and 18.3 million streams.
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Inside Wealth: A Donald Trump-Led Trip Back to the Gold-Plated ’80s

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Dot Earth Blog: In Madagascar Test, Drone Delivers Medicine by Air

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A Filmmaker’s Belief in Himself Pays Off

Ms. Adams is considered by Oscar prognosticators to be a contender for best actress at next year’s Academy Awards.

Continue reading the main story

And “Arrival” in many ways is just the icing on Mr. Levy’s cake. Though 21 Laps mostly focuses on film, its television business — until now best...

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Reddit’s CEO regrets trolling Trump supporters by secretly editing their posts

Steve Huffman speaks at The Washington Post’s Transformers event. (April Greer For The Washington Post)
Steve Huffman, the chief executive of Reddit, knows he has some explaining to do.
Huffman, also a Reddit co-founder, landed in hot water Wednesday after admitting that he used...

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The ‘zombie directors’ who lurk on corporate boards

A new analysis by the Council of Institutional Investors reveals how often corporate boards of directors fail to get majority support from investors — but remain on the board. (iStock)
One of the ideas most Americans associate with the concept of elections is that the outcome is de...

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Researchers have quantified what makes us love Harry Potter

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A good story often takes its reader on an emotional journey from despair to elation, and hits many notes in between.
It’s something that writers and readers understand intuitively. But it also can be analyzed, quantified and graphed. In a fascinating ...

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7 Principles Of Life That Everyone Knows, But Only A Few Follow

Early 2015 I was pretty frustrated with my career. Just a year earlier I said goodbye to my entrepreneurial aspirations and took a job at an IT-research firm in London.

Normally, that’s a good thing. The pay was good, so were the benefits, and I had great colleagues. But it...

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Jared Hecht: Find Out Why Lenders Want Your Bank Statements

If you’ve ever gone through the business loan application process, you know that preparing all that paperwork is one of the biggest pains of applying.

There are a lot of business loan requirements out there and each lender could require slightly different documentation.

But...

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Ursula Nwobu: 3 Reasons Entrepreneurs Need Better Self-Care

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The challenge of being an entrepreneur is enormous and it has emotional and physical effects. As a consequence, you are at a health risk by virtue of being an entrepreneur. The stress and workload is capable of wearing and breaking you down health-wise. It does not mean...

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The burning question: Climate change in the era of Trump

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Economists are prone to fads, and the latest is machine learning

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The views of others: Britain’s European partners take a hard line on Brexit

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Smaller cities pip metros in debit card usage post demonetisation

India is witnessing higher usage of debit card transactions, with the majority coming from tier-2 and tier-3 cities since the last fortnight, when the country withdrew 500- and 1,000-rupee notes as legal tender.
Most of the new transactions are for less than Rs 300, says Innoviti, a payments...

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Business Etiquette Basics From Around the World (Infographic)

Expanding your business overseas? Have international clients? Either way, understanding each region’s varying business etiquette is key to closing a successful deal or working with a global client.
Related: 15 Business Etiquette Rules Every Professional Needs to Know
How to greet someone, pr...

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Fidel Castro in His Own Words

Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader who led a communist revolution and brought the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere, died on November 25, 2016 at the age of 90.
Over the decades of his tyrannical reign, Castro ruled every aspect of Cuban life and brought the world to the brink of nuclear war....

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6 Ways to Use the Holiday Season to Your Advantage

You can always develop your career if you really want and believe it or not holidays are perfect for it. During the holiday season, it is easier to get in touch with people because you have a perfectly valid reason for it. Therefore, it is up to you to use this excuse and advance your c...

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10 Ways for Small Businesses to Dominate Local Markets

Small Business Saturday (Nov. 26, 2016) is an American shopping holiday that aims to promote shopping at local businesses. Last year, it generated $16.2 billion in spending for small businesses which was a 14 percent increase from 2014. While it’s great to use Small Business Saturday as a w...

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Retiring: No Rest at Rest Home: Fighting Bias Against Gays and Lesbians

In the suit, she accuses the housing center and its managers of failing to protect her from hostile residents who have insulted and verbally abused her. The suit says that she has been pushed, shoved and spit on, and that she was injured, including bruises on her arm, a bump on her head and...

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5 Takeaways from G-Startup's Tech Olympics

Silicon Valley is where the startup tech frenzy began. So, the Valley was a particularly fitting venue for the September G-Startup Worldwide Finals — an event that is akin to an Olympics for emerging startups.
Related: Shortlisted: Ten Startups To Look Out For At STEP Conference 201...

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Vocations: Keeping the Electricity Grid One Step Ahead of the Storm

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Friday, November 25, 2016

Tech Tip: Fighting iOS Calendar Spam

Q. I have been getting spam invitations to my iOS calendar recently. They come from Chinese accounts and their subjects are for super-discounted Ray-Bans and the like. Is there any solution to this?
A. Many iCloud users have recently reported an influx of spam in the form of iOS calendar...

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Gun sales boom on Black Friday

Shoppers flocked to gun stores on Black Friday, the biggest day of the year for gun sales.
The Black Friday weapon sales are not driven by the Christmas spirit since gun laws in many states prohibit buying guns for someone else. The sales are driven by sharp discounts.
Not far from...

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Barcelona hits Airbnb with a hefty fine

Reuters on the Road: London too expensive? Be Frugl

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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Wall Street rallies on Black Friday

As shoppers hit the streets and malls on Black Friday, consumer stocks helped drive Wall Street to record highs. And the major indexes scored solid gains for the week.
Wal-Mart and Home Depot rose on Friday, but department stores, like Macy’s, J.C. Penney and...

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Value of Payments Provider Stripe Doubles to $9.2 Billion

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This island is now powered almost entirely by solar energy

The new solar project on Ta’u. (Photo courtesy of SolarCity.)
A small island in American Samoa is making the switch from diesel generators to 100 percent renewable energy. Ta’u, the easternmost of the Samoan islands, has just been equipped with a new microgrid with 1.4 megawatts of sola...

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Common Sense: In the Chamber of Secrets: J.K. Rowling’s Net Worth

So I set out this week to assess the size and scope of her fortune, not to invade her privacy but because she’s that all-too-rare commodity in the ranks of the ultrawealthy — a role model. Not only has she made her fortune largely through her own wits and imagination, but she also pays taxes ...

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How AT&T defends its free data policy to skeptical regulators

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Parent company AT&T is defending a feature with DirecTV before regulators who said this month that they harbor “serious concerns” about the practice, in a fight over how consumers get to experience video on their mobile devices.
The program allows consumers ...

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What companies get wrong about motivating their people

Duke University professor and author Dan Ariely. (Photo: Center for Advanced Hindsight, Duke University)
A few years ago, behavioral economist Dan Ariely conducted a study at a semiconductor factory of Intel’s in Israel. Workers were given either a $30 bonus, a pizza voucher or a ...

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The alt-right isn’t only about white supremacy. It’s about white male supremacy.

At the Republican National Convention in July, Stephen Bannon praised his former website to a reporter, declaring: “We’re the platform for the alt-right.” But on Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump told the New York Times that Bannon, his pick for chief White House strategist, isn’t part...

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Entrepreneurship: Seeds of a Fintech Start-Up Sometimes Come From the Trenches

When the future of that program became uncertain, Ms. Rowling decided there had to be a better way. She figured if she could design a simpler, more affordable, tax-savvy solution for her own firm, it would also be useful to others.

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Heather Garbo: Small Business Saturday: Where to Shop Small in Denver

I’ve never been a fan of Black Friday. My preferred post-Thanksgiving activity is lounging on a couch with a movie and leftovers. I definitely don’t want to be anywhere near a stuffy, airless shopping mall crammed with crowds. But, Small Business Saturday is a different story. I...

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Jason Olsen: Failure"s Silver Lining

Failure. Just reading the word makes us uncomfortable. Try whispering the word under your breath. Do you physically feel the discomfort? Most of us do…
Read more: Fail, Success, Failure, Entrepreneurship, 10Ksmallbiz Scholar, What-Is-Working-Small-Businesses, Small Business, Business...

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Up in smoke?: What will happen if America’s president-elect follows through on pledges to tear up environmental laws

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India's cash crisis could kill its economic boom

India’s chaotic move to replace most of its cash could slam the brakes on its red hot economy.
The country overtook China as the world’s fastest growing major economy this year, but may fall behind again as the withdrawal of big rupee notes hurts business activity.
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Charlemagne: Even without winning elections, populists are setting the European Union’s agenda

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Rabi sowing: Acreage more than 2015, but sowing pace slows further

Rabi crops were sown on 32.76 million hectares till Friday, which was 4.6 per cent more than the same period last year, but the pace of planting slackened further and from November 18 to 25, the acreage rose by just 35.5 per cent.

From November 4 to 11, the area covered under rabi crops...

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4 Ways to Sell Like the Rock Star Entrepreneurs

There’s more to entrepreneurship than just starting a business. The world’s best entrepreneurs have a powerful mindset that sets them apart from the rest. Whether you’re new at sales, or you’re a seasoned salesperson, there’s a lot you can learn about selling from today’s most successful entr...

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5 Personal Obstacles That Limit your Success

Though there are many advantages to owning your own business, the path to actually being an entrepreneur is not so rosy. And many of the problems actually affect the mindset of the entrepreneur.
Related: 3 Tactics for Dealing With the Stress of Running a Business
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25 Leadership Lessons Your Business Can't Live Without

When it comes to running a business, you may find yourself learning about skills you never thought you would need. One of those skills is leadership.
The reality is that running a business de facto puts you in a leadership position, even if right now your only employee is you. This can be a ...

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Shocking Social Media Marketing Myths You Need to Disregard Now!

As a modern business, you need to be coming up with the best ways of utilizing social media. And that means you have to be aware of all the myths circulating surrounding social media marketing. These are some of the big ones that you have to ignore right now! They will be detrimental to the...

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5 Predictions to Guide Your Marketing Plan in 2017

There’s never been a better time to be a trep. That’s because the ability to sell and create brand awareness never has been more robust. At the same time, this is the worst time for entrepreneurial marketers to sell products and services. Consumers are more fickle-minded and more di...

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Economic View: Why Surging Stocks May Not Mean the Economy Trusts Trump

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The early stock market reaction to Donald J. Trump’s election victory was overwhelmingly positive. But that doesn’t mean a Trump presidency will be good for the economy.
Stock markets often serve as an...

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Smart Marketing Tips for New Restaurants

The following excerpt is from the staff of Entrepreneur Media’s book Start Your Own Restaurant and More. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes
As you consider various marketing vehicles, keep this in mind: Research conducted by the National Restaurant Association (NRA) r...

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Lufthansa forced to cancel 2,755 flights

A bitter pay dispute at Lufthansa will disrupt flights for a fourth consecutive day after pilots extended their strike through Saturday.
The strike began Wednesday and was originally planned for 24 hours. Over the four strike days, Lufthansa has been forced to cancel 2,755 flights,...

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Thursday, November 24, 2016

Trump to accept inauguration funds from corporations and big donors

The restrictions, which members of the Presidential Inaugural Committee cautioned have yet to be finalized, represent a continued march back from standards set in 2009, when President-elect Barack Obama banned gifts from lobbyists, political action committees and corporations, and put a cap...

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The rich are winning the global economic recovery

The rich are winning the global economic recovery – Nov. 24, 2016

The rich are winning the economic recovery.
That’s according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which says in a new report that the poor — who were hit hard by...

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Quora: The Biggest Sign That You Should Probably Change Careers

When should one make a career change? originally appeared on Quora – the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.

Answer by Ken Mazaika, CTO @ Co-founder @ thefirehoseproject.com, on Quora:

If this one thought entered your...

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Trailer Park Boys Land Gig As Marijuana Brand Ambassadors

MONCTON, N.B. — Some of Canada’s most notorious dope-smoking louts will be brand ambassadors for a New Brunswick marijuana producer.
OrganiGram Holdings Inc. says TV’s Trailer Park Boys have chosen the Moncton company as their exclusive Canadian cannabis producer, b...

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Kochs and Other Madoff Investors Are Winners in Fight Over Profits Held Abroad

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The company led by the American billionaire Koch brothers, along with dozens of banks and fund managers, kept billions of...

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Dot Earth Blog: An Exercise to Sift for Sources Amid a Blitz of Fake News

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In a conversation with a colleague awhile back, I recalled two images in “The Conundrum,” a short and thought-provoking book on ene...

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She’s the Hollywood Power Behind Those Seeking a Voice

Despite strides in broadening onscreen and production roles in the wake of #OscarsSoWhite and other movements, the business side of Hollywood — in particular the talent agencies — remains “overwhelmingly white and disproportionately male,” according to a study released in February by the Ralp...

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The secretive brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders who are helping Trump

Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel speaks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio earlier this year (Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is putting together a brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders to share ideas with the transition team for ...

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There’s another reason a Clinton win would be historic. It has nothing to do with being a woman.

Hillary Clinton was formerly the Secretary of State, a one-time launching pad for the top job in early America that hasn’t been on presidential resumes in more than 150 years. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
Thomas Jefferson was one before becoming president. So was James ...

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America’s turkeys, mapped

President George W. Bush pardons Biscuit the turkey in 2004. Biscuit came from a farm in West Virginia.

One of the joys of being a born-again Minnesotan is learning about all the strange and wonderful things at which Minnesota is best in the nation. Voter turnout, for instance. Raising ...

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Want to succeed in this job? Learn to say no

Celebrities usually have one person who doesn’t sugarcoat things for them: their business manager.

A-list celebrities are used to getting what they want.
A prime table at a full restaurant? No problem. Shopping after hours in an exclusive department store? But of course! First...

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David Glickman: America, the Capital of Entrepreneurship

America loves an entrepreneur! If you’ve got a good idea and a solid business model, I would say that the United States is the easiest place in the world to secure funding for a new enterprise. While you might already be familiar with the vibrant venture capital and angel investment...

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Valerie Hayman Sklar: Celebrity Or Average Joe: Swag Is For Everyone

Did you see the video of Sir Paul McCartney during an NBA game between the Brooklyn Nets and Philadelphia 76ers when the t-shirt cannon began firing tees into the crowd? You’d never know he’s a celebrity.

Arms in the air, he cheers to get the cannon operator to shoot some...

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For peat’s sake: Despite tough talk, Indonesia’s government is struggling to stem deforestation

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India grapples with the effects of withdrawing 86% of cash in circulation

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Aesthetic and pleasing: The Design Museum reopens in an ambitiously renovated site

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Note ban creates ripples in global bullion market

The comments of US-based strategic investor Nigam Arora on the gold price fall being driven by India has been impacting the global bullion market since Wednesday.

He had, that day, written in his closely tracked The Arora Report that the real reason for crashing gold prices was not ...

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20 Quotes on the Importance of Thankfulness and Gratitude

This article originally published Nov. 24, 2015.
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I wanted to share with you 20 quotes that really help put into perspective the power and importance of being thankful more of the time and not just on one particular day out of the year.
1. &...

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Why You Should Treat Every Day Like Thanksgiving

This column originally published on Nov. 26, 2014.
Thanksgiving comes around once a year, but what if we adopted the mindset that every day was Thanksgiving and were intentional about the people and things in our lives that we’re thankful for?
When I was a kid, my dad started a family t...

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The Key to Meaningful Productivity: Being Receptive

We all want to be more productive and fulfilled in our day-to-day.
Even the words that we use to describe productive people and actions are filled with aspiration: ship, create, code, get things done, make things happen.
A quick search of Google for the phrase “increasing...

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Craig Simpson's Top 10 Must Read Books for Marketing Professionals

Entrepreneur Reads is a series designed to bring to our readers the best books we’ve found to help motivate your entrepreneurial drive. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to be notified of new features.
We’ve asked direct marketer and Entrepreneur Press author Craig Simpson for his...

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Strategies: It’s Not Just the White House. Change Is in the Air on Wall St., Too

Yet it is possible that the election could be remembered as a pivotal moment in the markets, and in politics — and not just because a new Republican-controlled government is likely to enact some very different policies. It is at least arguable that the election has given the markets the i...

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How To Add Wellness Coaching to Your Personal Training Business

The following excerpt is from the staff of Entrepreneur Media’s book Start Your Own Personal Training Business. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes
Professional coaching has existed for more than 20 years, and until recently, coaches concentrated on life, corpor...

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Here Comes Black Friday: How to Prepare

The unofficial start of the holiday shopping season begins on Thursday, when many national retailers open their doors and offer major sales, and kicks into high gear on Friday, when many more stores enter the fray. Starting Thursday evening, we’ll capture the scene with reporters around the c...

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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

As Samsung moves on from Note 7 crisis, SDI battery affiliate struggles

By Hyunjoo Jin and Se Young Lee
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SEOUL In the shadows of Samsung Electronics’ (005930.KS) Note 7 smartphone crisis, affiliate Samsung SDI (006400.KS) is quietly reassuring anxious clients including Apple Inc (AAPL.O) that its batteries are safe.

But...

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Millions may now lose eligibility for overtime after ruling

Texas judge’s overtime ruling: Millions may now lose eligibility for overtime pay – Nov. 23, 2016

by Jeanne Sahadi @CNNMoney November 23, 2016: 4:48 PM ET

A rule put in place by President Obama to expand eligibility for overtime pay to millions of ...

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You may be higher up the global wealth pyramid than you think

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Ivory Coast says Ebola next door could cripple the economy

Ivory Coast commercial capital, Abidjan has begun to see the economic impact of the Ebola crisis ravaging neighboring nations, with many airlines cancelling routes to and from Ebola-hit countries. Gavino Garay reports.
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