Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Ford CEO opposes Trump travel ban: 'We have to live by our values'

Ford CEO opposes Trump travel ban: ‘We have to live by our values’ – Jan. 30, 2017


by Chris Isidore and Poppy Harlow   @CNNMoney January 30, 2017: 9:36 PM ET










The truce between Ford and President Donald Trump took a hit Monday, as the automaker...

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Trump’s Trade War May Have Already Begun

On Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany spoke by telephone with Premier Li Keqiang of China. “The two spoke in favor of free trade and a stable world trade order,” a German government spokesman later said in a written statement.

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The swift...

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India freaks out over U.S. plans to change H-1B high-skilled visas

Amid the hue and cry over President Trump’s travel ban, news of another potential change to American immigration rules has set off a panic attack in India’s tech industry.
Major Indian tech shares took a nosedive on Tuesday on reports that Trump is planning to make changes...

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‘Apple would not exist without immigration': Companies at Trump’s tech summit react to his travel ban

From left, then-Vice President-elect Mike Pence, PayPal founder Peter Thiel and Apple CEO Tim Cook listen to then-President-elect Donald Trump during a meeting at Trump Tower in New York in December. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
In less than two months, technology companies went...

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Deutsche Bank fined for $10 billion sham Russian trades | Reuters

By Karen Freifeld and Arno Schuetze
| NEW YORK/FRANKFURT


NEW YORK/FRANKFURT Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) has agreed to pay $630 million in fines for organizing $10 billion in sham trades that could have been used to launder money out of Russia, the latest in a string of...

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H&M fourth-quarter pretax beats forecast, sets new growth target

Swedish fashion retailer H&M reported on Tuesday a surprise rise in pretax profit for the September-November period and set a new growth target to increase local-currency turnover by 10 to 15 percent annually.
Pretax profit in H&M’s fiscal fourth quarter rose to 7.41...

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Tech Companies Fight Trump Immigration Order in Court

“Expedia believes that the executive order jeopardizes its corporate mission and could have a detrimental impact on its business and employees, as well as the broader U.S. and global travel and tourism industry,” Robert Dzielak, the company’s general counsel, wrote in the filing.
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15 Home-Based Retirement Businesses | Home Business Magazine

Savvy Business Start-Ups for 50+ Individuals
Though it is illegal to discriminate in hiring individuals who are forty years or older, studies reveal prospective employers have been reluctant to hire older, jobless workers in these slow economic times because they believe they will have to...

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I couldn't use THIS but you should: Janice Bryant Howroyd

You don’t become the first African-American woman to own a billion-dollar company overnight. The journey of ACT-1 Group founder and CEO Janice Bryant Howroyd began during the battles over civil rights.
When Howroyd enrolled in an integrated school in the Deep South, she said, her...

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SafiChoo toilet could save lives in developing world communities

Jasmine Burton helped design an inexpensive, portable plastic toilet to address the lack of basic sanitation around the world.


Everybody poops. But not everyone has access to a toilet.
“It’s shocking that this basic necessity is unavailable to nearly half of the...

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‘The Only Way We Can Fight Back Is to Excel’

All but one of the students were enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA. Created in 2012 by an Obama-administration executive action, DACA allowed teenagers and young adults who came to the United States illegally as children with their parents to...

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If Trump Wants To Get Tough On Trade, He Should Prioritize China, Study Says

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump has made Mexico the central focus of his push to reform U.S. trade policy, singling out the neighboring nation Thursday with a proposed 20 percent import tax that the White House subsequently walked back.


If Trump is truly committed to saving American...

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S&P 500, Dow suffer biggest drop of 2017

The Dow suffering it’s biggest loss of 2017, and, in fact, all the major U.S. indexes all posting losses. President Donald Trump’s orders to curb travel and immigration from some countries sparked uncertainty.
Max Wolff of 55 Capital:
SOUNDBITE: MAX...

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Science Will Suffer Under Trump’s Travel Ban, Researchers Say

Some foreign universities, while condemning the ban, also pointed out that they still welcomed students and researchers from anywhere. The University of British Columbia announced the establishment of a task force, with an initial budget of 250,000 Canadian dollars (about $190,000), “to...

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Trump administration lifts temporary freeze on EPA grants

The headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)
The Trump administration has lifted a temporary freeze on billions of dollars of grants from the Environmental Protection Agency, saying the programs will continue as planned.
An email sent...

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How Rich Couples Who Aren’t Pitt and Jolie Manage Their Divorces

The difficult divorces, Ms. Chemtob said, are less straightforward. “When someone has $12 million but $6 million is in real estate and they have three kids in private school and one spouse isn’t working, that’s a headache,” she said.

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Before the divorce...

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For Couriers, China’s E-Commerce Boom Can Be a Tough Road

Labor standards in the industry vary widely, but many couriers work under arrangements that might, for example, provide no overtime pay or no employer contributions to their government health care and pension benefits. Just as in the United States, where Uber drivers and many others work as...

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Match Point | Home Business Magazine

Put your donut down for a minute and pay attention. I have some questions for you:
1. Can you recommend a career coach for my cousin who’s thinking of leaving her job?
2. Can you recommend a mason who could repair my front steps?
3. Can you recommend a recruiter who could find a vice...

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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...

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Climate Change This Week: Trump Blocks Climate Information, Resistance Grows, and More!

Today, the Earth got a little hotter, and a little more crowded.


And the chances of Donald Trump’s family and fortune surviving climate change are small, dwindling daily and irreversibly.





Saving BUB, Beautiful Unique Biodiversity, as in these pygmy elephants in Borneo, is...

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Regulator Warns Of 'Get Rich' Schemes Using O'Leary's Likeness

TORONTO — Ontario’s securities regulator is warning investors about advertisements that use the image or likeness of Kevin O’Leary to promote “get rich” schemes.
The Ontario Securities Commission says representatives for the businessman and Conservative...

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10 Ways to Market Your Business Online for $500

The internet provides unlimited potential in terms of customer reach and opportunity, and while there is some online marketing that can be done for free, most effective strategies require a marketing budget.
My agencies focus on performance-based digital ad buys and influencer marketing...

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9 Sales and Marketing Tips for Startups

Marketing done right can be an incredible boon for your business’s net income. Done wrong, however, it can feel like throwing money into a raging bonfire. Because small business owners have to be whatever their small business needs — all the time — it can be difficult to master...

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Wie wir am Arbeitsplatz krank gemacht werden | Dr. med. Mimoun Azizi

Scherze und gelegentliche Auseinandersetzungen am Arbeitsplatz sind normal und gehören zum Arbeitsalltag dazu. Hierdurch wird kaum jemand krank. Wenn aber „Witze”, Beleidigungen, Entwürdigungen systematisch gegen eine Person oder eine Gruppe gerichtet werden, dann handelt es...

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Wall Street Reassures Employees, Without Wholly Rejecting Travel Ban

Mr. Blankfein’s carefully worded criticism still stood as one of the sharpest responses from the finance industry, where business is fundamentally about moving money across the globe. Wall Street has deep roots to immigrants. Marcus Goldman, as a case in point, was a German immigrant, as...

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Philanthropist Ann Friedman picked to turn D.C.’s Franklin School into ‘Planet Word.’

The Franklin School on Franklin Square in Washington. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and her economic development team have been looking for someone with a fresh vision and a robust balance sheet to restore the deteriorating but historic Franklin...

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‘Becoming Warren Buffett’ Goes Beyond a $74 Billion Fortune

But the movie doesn’t shy away from portraying Mr. Buffett, now 86, as something of a remarkable human computer, gifted with numbers and less so with interpersonal relationships. He is the kind of man who straightforwardly says that he can’t remember the colors of his bedroom walls, and the...

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Amazon explores legal options against Trump’s immigration ban

Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 29, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo
Some of the world’s biggest tech companies have criticized President Trump’s executive order to temporarily ban citizens and refugees from...

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‘Deeply concerned': Corporate America responds to Trump’s travel ban

Ajay Banga, CEO of MasterCard, wrote to employees that he is “deeply concerned” about Trump’s travel ban. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
A chorus that began in Silicon Valley is gaining voices across Corporate America, as more business leaders from other industries...

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Diabetes patients sue insulin makers for ‘pricing fraud’

Laura Marston holds up a vial of Humalog, a type of insulin she takes for Type 1 diabetes at her home in Washington, D.C. When she was first diagnosed at 14, the list price for the drug was $21 per vial. Now it’s list price is more than $250 for a vial. (Jorge Ribas/The Washington...

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Why Entrepreneurs Make the Worst Significant Others

1) You will need to adopt a new languageEntrepreneurs all use a mystical tongue of venture capital and startup lingo. This means you will be need to be able to decipher statements such as:


“I just 5 at a 40 pre from a16z and Sequoia.”Translation: I raised a bunch of money at...

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Enterprise 4.0: The Top 10 Tech Trends That Will Transform 2017

If you are like me you are running hard to keep up with the latest innovations in tech, what’s next for business and how the enterprise will navigate change. I am working to keep my clients and my myself Future Smart. I am learning new things everyday about how tech is changing...

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Monday, January 30, 2017

ExxonMobil in Iraq: Will Trump's travel ban hurt?

ExxonMobil may have a problem in Iraq.
The country is one of seven covered by President Trump’s travel ban. And the company is the only American firm still operating under an oil license granted by the Iraqi government.





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Farmer bodies want income guarantee

Some farmers’ organisations have demanded the Centre announce an income guarantee law for them to ensure a minimum income when crops fail and also when prices crash due to a bumper harvest.

To be called the Remunerative and Universal Price Yield Assurance (RUPYA) Act, the legislation...

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From Steven Spielberg to Richard Branson, Successful Entrepreneurs Share Their Secrets

Entrepreneur TV focuses on entrepreneurs, startups and stars who have created their own products or launched their own businesses. You’ll learn success secrets from celebrities, productivity hacks from billionaires and more. 
On the first episode of Entrepreneur TV, you’ll learn...

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Giving Away Your Content and Marketing to Gain Customers

This video is part of a series brought to you by Entrepreneur’s book division, Entrepreneur Press, the publisher of Jill Schiefelbein’s book Dynamic Communication: 27 Strategies to Grow, Lead, and Manage Your Business.
In this Dynamic Communication interview, author Jill Schiefelbein chats...

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Why You Must Be a 'Mad Scientist' to Achieve Your Goals

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When it comes to goals, often people don’t know what ones they should try to achieve. That’s OK. It’s normal.
We delve into this issue in The Goal Standard...

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5 Tools Your Online Business Needs for a Super-Productive 2017

You already know that running a business is hard work. The late hours, the managing of customers and employees, the brainstorming sessions for lead generation and handling cash flow: These are the reasons many businesses fail before they barely even start. And even some that escape the...

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Top 5 HDR Software for Mac Users to Try in 2017

Taking high-quality, long-range photographs and videos can be difficult. Fortunately, using high dynamic range (HDR) imaging techniques can drastically improve the quality of your images.
However, HDR isn’t a perfect solution. You need to know:

When HDR is appropriate to use
What HDR...

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Sunday, January 29, 2017

Trump supporters care about jobs, not voter fraud

Steve Mays is an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump. So much so that it’s his dream to see Trump visit his hometown.
He told CNNMoney that he supports Trump “probably more than I’ve supported any candidate for president since I’ve been able to...

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This week in stocks: Earnings bonanza; Jobs report; Fed talks rates; Last chance to enroll in Obamacare

This week in stocks: Earnings bonanza; Jobs report; Fed talks rates; Last chance to enroll in Obamacare – Jan. 29, 2017










1. Earnings bonanza: This is a busy week for earnings.
On Tuesday, Apple will reveal just how successful the iPhone 7 was during the holiday...

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Making protectionism unpopular again

BACK in 1906, an insurgent politician called Joseph Chamberlain (once known as Radical Joe, he had switched to the Conservatives over home rule for Ireland*) lured the British government into a campaign in favour of tariffs. The result was a devastating defeat for the Conservatives. The...

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To Understand a Tax on Mexican Imports, Consider the Avocado

The average retail price of an avocado varies considerably. Prices can creep up toward $1.50 for the Super Bowl and Fourth of July, the two biggest spikes in demand. The retail price falls toward $1 apiece around Christmas, as demand falters but the trees, grown in mild, subtropical...

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A little-noticed move by Trump could make it easier to deport immigrants

A little-noticed provision in one of President Trump’s executive orders this week stripped federal privacy protections from many immigrants, raising fears among advocacy groups that information people willingly submitted to the federal government during the Obama administration could now be...

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U.S. tech leaders sound alarm over Trump immigration order | Reuters

By Joseph Menn and Julia Love
| SAN FRANCISCO


SAN FRANCISCO The U.S. technology industry, a major employer of foreign workers, hit back on Saturday at President Donald Trump’s sudden executive order on immigration, with some leaders calling it immoral and...

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There are 4.9 million reasons to not slap border tax on Mexican imports, congressman says

A 20 percent tax on Mexican imports will be disastrous for U.S. consumers, Rep. Jared Polis told CNBC Friday.
“The only thing that will come from this is devastation for both of our shared economies,” Polis said on “Power Lunch.”
Polis, a Democrat from Colorado,...

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In America’s Heartland, Discussing Climate Change Without Saying ‘Climate Change’

Here in north-central Kansas, America’s breadbasket and conservative heartland, the economic realities of agriculture make climate change a critical business issue. At the same time, politics and social pressure make frank discussion complicated. This is wheat country, and Donald J. Trump...

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Ivy International Fosters Love in the Fast Lane

Inga Verbeeck

Valentine’s Day is an exciting holiday to be spent with the person or people you love in your life – that is, if you have the time. Many of the most successful individuals in the world simply don’t have space in their hectic schedules to unwind with someone special. Ivy...

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This is what makes a perfect investing partner

A fancy pitch and an elaborate business plan will only get you so far with these investors.
Instead, it boils down to this: How quick do you want to get rich? If the answer is “overnight,” better take your pitch elsewhere.
Self-made millionaires and veterans of the...

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Say goodbye to plastic sandwich bags

Kat Nouri with her Stasher silicone sandwich bag.


Kat Nouri has a love-hate relationship with plastic.
As an artist and product designer, she’s enamored with its transparency and the endless creative uses for it. But as a mother, and an environmentally-conscious consumer,...

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Innovations Threaten the Neighborhood Bike Shop

“The fact that these guys come here to me is a home run,” Mr. Sweeney said.
Velofix has over 80 franchises in Canada and the United States. The one Mr. Samson works for is owned by Justin Brundage, 46, an avid cyclist who also has a job at a financial services firm. Mr. Brundage leased two...

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Just 2 Of Trump's 19 CEO Advisers Publicly Condemn Order Targeting Muslims

There are nearly 20 chief executives and prominent business leaders signed up to advise President Donald Trump. But only Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick have so far had the gumption to speak out against the president’s executive order blocking refugees and citizens of seven...

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Wall St slips after soft GDP data, earnings

U.S. stocks edged lower for a second consecutive session on Friday as some underwhelming corporate earnings and gross domestic product data offset recent enthusiasm over policy actions by President Donald Trump. Bobbi Rebell reports.





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Off Long Island, Wind Power Tests the Waters

“We’re developing this first offshore wind project in federal waters, but it’s really a gateway project to other locations around Long Island,” said Thomas Falcone, the power authority’s chief executive. “We’re now at a point where developers can build projects at prices where utilities are...

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Endangered animals are already cut off by a border wall. Trump wants it to be much bigger.

An ocelot kitten at the Buffalo Zoo in January in New York. Ocelots are among many endangered animals that live where President Trump hopes to build a massive border wall along the Mexican border. (Buffalo Zoo via AP)
The “big, beautiful wall” that President Trump vowed again this week...

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How to Buy a Used Car in an Age of Widespread Recalls

How did the used-car market get so confusing all of a sudden? For starters, the Takata airbag recall is unprecedented in its scope, with over 60 million airbags affected, but also in its complexity. Dealers can’t simply fix everything at once, because there are not enough replacement parts....

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Farhad’s and Mike’s Week in Tech: President Trump’s Unsecured Phone and His C.E.O. Confidant

Farhad: Yeah, what if the cloud’s a fad? Sure, Microsoft just reported huge growth in its cloud business, and in its earnings report, Google said it had seen a “terrific upswing” in revenue from selling online server space. (That’s how they could afford Quentin.) But look, the newspaper...

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Seeming Real Online: Being A Social Media Wizard

Succeeding on a social network can seem like pure wizardry, but you can be your own wizard. Paying attention to your social media accounts, consistently updating and engaging directly with your followers can be a great way to generate traffic. But it will take a little bit of time, and...

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Insightful Study of 386 SaaS Startup Pricing Pages

Late last year, I combed through the Montclare SaaS 250 — a directory of the biggest SaaS companies in the world — to find common trends in what I thought would be a significant dataset. As it turned out, 80% of the 250 biggest SaaS companies didn’t have a pricing page at all.
Expecting to...

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There Is Still Work Ahead For Workplace Equity

Eight years ago today, landmark legislation was enacted in the name of women’s equality activist Lilly Ledbetter to advance equal pay.


Today’s anniversary is a reminder that while we’ve made strides to end pay inequality, the persistence of the gender and racial wage gap means we’ve got...

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WestJet Waives Cancellation Fee For Travellers Trump Has Banned

TORONTO — A Canadian airline has issued an advisory to travellers after President Donald Trump banned people with passports from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S.
WestJet says it is waiving its cancellation fee for people who hold passports from Iran,...

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The Many Ways the Cannabis Industry Lacks Traditional Marketing Expertise

The cannabis industry has yet to find its way in marketing, which isn’t altogether that surprising as the industry is new. The potential lucrative market makes it, and everyone involved in it, a bit frenzied and unfocused.
Of course, this no traditional industry. It’s owned and...

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The Number 1 Mistake Most Founders Make

I’ve met hundreds of entrepreneurs. Through a historied background in business, and most recently at Science, I’ve worked with dozens of brilliant minds like Mike Dubin at Dollar Shave Club and Kyla Brennan at HelloSociety. In my 20 year-career, whether over casual coffee or formal business...

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So treffend kommentiert Jan Böhmermann Trumps Einreise-Verbot

“Es reicht”: So treffend kommentiert Jan Böhermann Trumps Einreise-Verbot | dpa




Jan Böhmermann appelliert an die Deutschen: “Gemeinsam für die Freiheit. Es reicht!”


Der Entertainer reagiert damit auf die Isolationspolitik des...

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Trump’s Economic Vows May Be Harder to Hit After a Slow 2016

While Friday’s report will provide more support for Mr. Trump’s argument, the lackluster pace of economic growth may also complicate the new administration’s plans. Indeed, some of the headwinds in 2016 — like a widening trade deficit and cautious spending by businesses — could persist into...

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Deal nears for redeveloping Grimke School site in the District

By Shaun Courtney By Shaun Courtney January 26

The former Grimke School on 1923 Vermont Ave. NW. (Shaun Courtney).
The District is close to an agreement with a private developer to revitalize a long-vacant public property on the border of the booming U Street and Shaw neighborhoods...

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Uneasy About the Future, Readers Turn to Dystopian Classics

“The Handmaid’s Tale” is among several classic dystopian novels that seem to be resonating with readers at a moment of heightened anxiety about the state of American democracy. Sales have also risen drastically for George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” and “1984,” which shot to the top of Amazon’s...

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Tech firms recall employees to U.S., denounce Trump’s ban on refugees from Muslim countries

(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
The country’s leading technology companies are recalling overseas employees and sharply criticizing President Trump after he signed an executive order Friday barring for 90 days immigrants and visitors from seven Muslim countries from entering the...

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Trump adviser Gary Cohn is leaving Goldman Sachs with a $123 million payout

Gary Cohn, president and chief operating officer at Goldman Sachs, talks on his phone as he arrives at Trump Tower, November 29, 2016, in New York City. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
This story has been updated to include information about Andy Puzder, Trump’s nominee to lead...

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These Americans may suffer the most from a Trump hiring freeze

The federal government has played an important role in the economic advancement of black Americans, who comprise 18 percent of federal workers. (Photo by Matt McClain/ The Washington Post)
President Trump’s order this week for an immediate hiring freeze could hurt African Americans more...

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4 Ways You Didn't Know Your Small Business Can Benefit From Online Auctions

If there’s one thing that most consumers who are online are busy with aside from work-related matters, it’s browsing and shopping at online auctions. And why not? The feeling and satisfaction you get when you find great deals and awesome bargains is just simply unbeatable. For...

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HOAs Gone Haywire, Part IV: How to Decode Your HOA or COA's CC&Rs

HOAs Gone Haywire, Part IV: How to Decode Your HOA or COA’s CC&Rs


Thus far in my HOAs Gone Haywire series, I have discussed the most common issues of life in an HOA or COA community. Disputes and imbroglios go from the mild – you’re ordered by the Association to...

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Saturday, January 28, 2017

Tech leaders condemn Trump's immigrant ban

The ink was barely dry on President Trump’s sweeping immigration order Friday when the backlash from the tech industry began.
Four of America’s biggest tech companies warned their employees about the ban. And leaders throughout the industry, where foreign-born...

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India's growth doesn't have a story

For a plan to come together there has to be one in the first place. As India finds itself grappling with a sudden fall from grace, an economic blueprint continues to elude policy makers.


World-beating growth numbers of over 7% might look good when global growth is sagging, but the...

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The Secret to Outpacing Your Rival? Competitive Insights.

When United Airlines announced that early this year it would start offering a “basic economy” class (Delta and American have made similar announcements), the option was an obvious attempt to tap into a different market: budget airline passengers.
The deal? In exchange for...

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15 Modern Office Furniture and Layout Trends (Infographic)

Office culture and layouts have evolved tremendously over the past few years, thanks in part to the startup and tech world. Layouts that feature comfortable creative spaces, collaboration-focused work stations and an overall fun environment is a trend that is here to stay.
While Silicon...

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An Introvert's Guide to Job Interviews (Infographic)

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Interviews are daunting for anyone — but for introverts they can seem especially frightening.
Introverts can be labeled as “shy,” “nervous” or even “anti-social,” when in fact...

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Which Apps Are Right for Your Business?

Due to the Thousands of Apps Available, It Can Be Hard to Decide Which One Is Right for Your Small Business
As new generations begin to take over today’s workforce so does the growing presence of technology. With over 55 million sold, the iPad is changing the way in which people conduct...

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Friday, January 27, 2017

A 20% Mexico tariff would pay for the wall. But it would hurt Americans

The Trump administration floated the idea of using a 20% tax on goods imported from Mexico to pay for the wall.
The math works. The U.S. imported $303 billion from Mexico in 2015 and 20% of that is about $60 billion — more than enough to pay for President Trump’s...

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Nando's to Donald Trump: #everyoneiswelcome

Walk into a Nando’s restaurant in Washington, D.C. and you’ll find much more than a grilled chicken menu.
To mark the inauguration of Donald Trump as U.S. president last week, the South African company launched a campaign with the hash tag #everyoneiswelcome.
It has printed...

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Tax Plan Sows Confusion as Tensions With Mexico Soar

Retail businesses could see their tax bills surge, said David French of the National Retail Federation, who predicted that those costs would be passed on to consumers. He called the idea “very counter to the way consumers are feeling at the moment.”

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If...

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Shell set to sell $3 billion North Sea assets to Chrysaor | Reuters

By Ron Bousso and Clara Denina
| LONDON


LONDON Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) is nearing the sale of a large part of its North Sea oil and gas assets to private equity-backed Chrysaor for $3 billion, banking sources said, marking a milestone in its drive to reduce debt...

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There’s Something Very Weird Happening Inside Russia’s Cybersecurity World

A series of surprising arrests of some of Russia‘s top cybersecurity figures has left the international cybersecurity officials and analysts wondering whether Russia is cleaning house of suspected spies, or going through an internal shakeup of the FSB, Russia’s national...

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Making the Rust Belt Rustier

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Ambridge, Pa., a former steel town west of Pittsburgh, was once a Democratic stronghold but supported Donald Trump in November.

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Donald Trump will break most...

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ChefDance Brings Sundance 2017 Influencers Together for Divine Dinners & A Charitable Cause

Kevin Bacon, Chef Cat Cora and CEO Mimi Kim come together at ChefDance benefitting Operation Smile at Sundance 2017.

The first weekend of Sundance 2017 was an exhilarating whirlwind of movie screenings and parties, but ChefDance was undoubtedly the one fête all VIP’s wanted a coveted ticket...

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3 common excuses for not starting a business—and how to get over them

Over the last 10 years, I’ve worked with thousands of entrepreneurs. I’ve noticed it’s the same handful of obstacles preventing them from starting.
Let me show you three of the most common, and how you can overcome them.
1. “I don’t have time”
...

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Death Wish Coffee scores a free 30 second Super Bowl ad

Touchdown for Death Wish Coffee Company! The startup just scored a free 30-second commercial during the Super Bowl on February 7.
The Super Bowl is the most watched event of the year and is notoriously expensive for advertisers. A 30-second ad during this year’s game is expected...

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The Little Kitchens That Could

As they spooned out samples of Snow Monkey last weekend, one fan jumped and fist-pumped her approval. Now, they only need 100,000 more customers like her.
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Rachel Geicke, left, took a photo of Jenn Chan at the Winter Fancy Food Show. Ms. Geicke and Mariana Ferreira,...

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You Haven't Seen A Mr. Clean Commercial Like This

Mr. Clean has a new approach to household chores, and it involves making you weak in the knees. 


The folks at Procter & Gamble want consumers to “get busy” with its Mr. Clean products, and they’ve created an animated, ripped version of its mascot to help make that happen.


The ad is...

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Wall St ends flat after two-day run; Dow stays above 20,000

U.S. stocks were little changed on Thursday as investors paused following a two-day rally that pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average above the 20,000 mark, while the latest wave of earnings rolled in. Bobbi Rebell reports.
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What Trump Can and Can’t Do to Dismantle Obama’s Climate Rules

However, it’s not clear how much impact this move would have on jobs or the environment. It affects only mines in Wyoming and Montana, where coal companies had for years shed jobs because of increased automation and declining coal demand.

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Limits on...

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Seniors Welcome New, Battery-Powered Friends

Some simple tools that can help older adults are already mass-market consumer items, like Amazon’s personal assistant, Alexa. Other inventions, such as virtual reality technologies and robotic limbs, are still in their early days but could soon provide more freedom, resources and constant...

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German Prosecutors Widen Volkswagen Emissions Probe

BERLIN — German prosecutors have expanded an investigation into Volkswagen’s emissions test-cheating scandal and said the carmaker’s former chief executive may have known about the manipulation sooner than he has so far said publicly.
Prosecutors in Braunschweig near...

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How to Develop an Email Marketing Campaign That Works

In the age of technology, learning how to create and launch a successful email marketing campaign can mean an astronomical boost in sales and traffic for your company. Nevertheless, the matter of email marketing is more complex than it seems. With that said, the following is an overview of a...

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Why This New Chatbot Is More Likely To Get You Promoted Than Fired

Confession: For the past several months I’ve been furiously coding away on a new project as part of HubSpot Labs. It’s called GrowthBot. It’s a chatbot for marketing and sales people — and anyone looking to grow a company (like startup folks).

The launch has gone...

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What Are the Challenges of Running a Values-Based Company?

What are the challenges of running a values-based company? originally appeared on Quora – the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.


Answer by Jordan Ritter, CEO of Atlas Informatics, formerly of Napster and Cloudmark, on...

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Apocalypse Now? U.S. Elites Stocking Up On Guns, Gold, Exit Strategies

Business elites are the most mobile people there are, and they have become especially mobile in recent years. For the truly wealthy, changing countries is at worst a paperwork headache (someone else’s paperwork headache, mostly).
So it’s not a good sign when a country’s business...

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Sean Spicer May Have Just Tweeted His Password to His 214,000 Followers

At the start of 2017, Wendy’s took the world by surprise with some sassy remarks on its Twitter account. In response to Wendy’s tweet about its “fresh, never frozen beef,” a Twitter user called Wendy’s a “joke,” saying that the food chain does freeze its beef. Wendy’s fired...

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Entering a Small Business Funding Contest #financeyourbusiness

The following excerpt is from Entrepreneur’s book Finance Your Business. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes
Prizes from business contests run the gamut. A seemingly infinite number of local and business-school competitions offer small-change awards of $5,000 to...

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Regierung gab 2016 fast 22 Milliarden aus

Exakt 21,7 Milliarden Euro hat die Bundesregierung im vergangenen Jahr für Flüchtlinge ausgegeben


Für 2017 plant das Finanzministerium mit ähnlich hohen Ausgaben


Ökonomen sind sicher: Die Milliarden-Investitionen lohnen sich

Der Bund hat nach einer vorläufigen Schätzung im...

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Toshiba, Desperate for Cash After Scandal, Will Sell Microchip Business

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Toshiba headquarters in Tokyo. The company will spin off its microchip division, which makes the information-storing “brains” inside millions of smartphones and other devices.

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Behrouz Mehri/Agence France-Presse —...

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Why ‘1984’ Is a 2017 Must-Read

Orwell had been thinking about the novel that would become “1984” as early as 1944, when he wrote a letter about Stalin and Hitler, and “the horrors of emotional nationalism and a tendency to disbelieve in the existence of objective truth because all the facts have to fit in with the words...

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Finding A Business Idea You Love By Trial and Error

“I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.”


Thomas A. Edison’s quote reminds me of my father. Sitting around the dinner table with my family when I was growing up, my dad always admonished us to “Find something you love to do!”


I...

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When is the Best Time to Start Your Small Business Loan Search?

As any business owner knows well, no two small businesses are alike.


Small businesses across the U.S. operate in very different industries, serve very different customers, and have very different ways of operating their business smoothly.


That’s why there is no one time to...

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How To Ride the Motivation Wave and Overcome Distraction By, Daniel DiPiazza

For 20 years, filmmaker Sooyong Park has devoted his life to the study, recording and preservation of the wild Siberian tiger. 2-3 times a year, he leaves his family for months at a time to stay in the frozen forests of Eastern Russia, Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula in hopes of catching...

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Thursday, January 26, 2017

Trump's foreign profits plan is doable, but experts say it's an ethical minefield

If a foreign dignitary checks into a room at one of President Trump’s hotels, the hotel’s profit from that stay is supposed to go to the U.S. Treasury.
The pledge was a big part of Trump’s plan to counter ethics concerns created by his business interests.
Figuring...

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Living in the dark: 240 million Indians have no electricity

Screams alerted Dadasaheb Vidhate to the fire trapping three of his children in the family’s thatched-roof hut in rural India.

“Neighbours rushed to help douse the fire, but we couldn’t save anyone,” Vidhate, 45, said of the blaze four years ago, which he blames on an overturned kerosene...

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Who's Managing Your Online Reviews?

Today’s entrepreneurs are well aware of the importance of online reviews. Those few words, usually written by total strangers, can give your business’s online reputation a huge boost — or plunge it into a one-star muck bath you’ll spend days or even weeks recovering...

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Pain-Free Performance Reviews? Possible. Here are 5 Tips for Getting There.

Let’s face it: Everyone, employees and managers, dreads performance reviews. The tired ritual of sitting down for an hour once a year is uncomfortable and unproductive. No wonder companies like General Electric and Adobe are redefining how they approach feedback.
Related: Employee Reviews...

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The Productivity 'Secret' Needed to Make Progress on Your Goal

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Before the official start of The Goal Standard Challenge on Jan. 30, productivity expert Chris Winfield discusses how to tap into the power of continuous improvement and movement on a...

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How to Create an Eco-Friendly Home Office

Working from home is wonderful. And one of the more fun and creative aspects of remote work is designing your home office. But if you want to reduce your impact and save energy, it’s imperative that you integrate eco-friendly features into this space.

The Way to an Eco-Friendly Home...

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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Super Bowl gives small businesses a chance to score

Super Bowl gives small businesses a chance to score – Jan. 25, 2017










Ayesha James and her husband were living in a Houston hotel in 2016 after their home and all the paperwork for their catering business were destroyed in a fire.
Their company, OMG Baked Potatoes,...

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The markets have second thoughts on Donald Trump

MARKETS are always full of surprises. In the run-up to the Presidential election, many investors were nervous about the possibility of a Trump victory. But on the night of the results, there was a dramatic turnaround. Within a few weeks, the market capitalisation of global equities had risen...

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Server-Ausfall legt Hamburger Flughafen für eine halbe Stunde lahm

Am Hamburger Flughafen ging am Mittwochmorgen eine halbe Stunde lang nichts mehr


Grund war ein Server-Ausfall

Am Flughafen Hamburg konnten am Mittwochmorgen für rund eine halbe Stunde Flugzeuge weder starten noch landen. “Aufgrund eines Server-Ausfalls ist der Flugbetrieb...

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Trump Revives Keystone Pipeline Rejected by Obama

In his opening days in office, Mr. Trump has also modified or reversed Mr. Obama’s policies on health care, abortion and housing while ordering a freeze of any pending regulations left behind by the former administration.

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The pipelines were more about symbol...

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No Olympics? No problem. Washington CEOs decide to rebuild region anyway.

Russ Ramsey, chairman and chief executive officer of Ramsey Asset Management, and the leader of the new Greater Washington Partnership. (Jonathan Alcorn/Bloomberg)
In their bid to host the 2024 Olympics, Washington business leaders plotted a transformation of the region into a more...

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New Formula One Chief Hopes to Grab Americans’ Attention

“People have said we’re going to ‘Americanize’ it,” Carey said. “And we’re not going to do that totally. But realistically, there are some elements of Americanization that the sport could use.”

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While Formula One commands enormous audiences throughout much of...

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Trump taps net neutrality critic to lead the FCC

Ajit Pai, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has been a staunch critic of Democratic efforts aimed at breaking the dominance of some of America’s biggest Internet providers, including AT&T, Comcast and Verizon. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News)
President...

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Americans can’t agree on the country’s ‘most important problem.’ Why that’s also a problem for Trump.

President Trump delivers his inaugural address after being sworn in as the 45th U.S. president on Jan. 20. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
President Trump faces a number of challenges as he begins his new job at the White House. He has the lowest approval rating of any president to enter the Oval...

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Judge says Aetna dropped out of some Obamacare markets to help win its merger fight

(AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
Aetna announced it would pull out of most of the state exchanges where it sold health insurance under the Affordable Care Act last August, citing financial losses. But a U.S. District Court judge who rejected the company’s proposed merger with Humana on...

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Start-Up New York Gets a New Name, and a Focus on Start-Ups

And the program had a new name: the Excelsior Business Program, a rebranding that carries some irony. Instead of allowing businesses of any size to apply, the program will now be open only to what most people would define as start-ups — small companies in their formative stages — in a move...

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Release Your Inner Franklin: 4 Tips to Develop a Lifelong Learning Strategy

Charles Darwin once said, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one most adaptable to change.”


If there was ever a time to be adaptable to change it is NOW. Driven by digital transformation, no one can rest...

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Here's A Strategy For This Year: Be Afraid

Monday, January 2nd was a holiday for most people. And hey, why not? The Federal government was closed. So were schools. It was the day after New Year’s Day and because New Year’s Day fell on a Sunday, most companies were also closed. But not for some business owners I...

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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Five best entries to vie for B-School Award today

Five best entries, shortlisted by a power-packed jury, will now compete for the coveted Business Standard Best B-School Project Award 2016, in the final round to be held on January 25.

The jury included Nishi Vasudeva, former chairman and managing director, Hindustan Petroleum...

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5 Ways to Be More Mobile-Friendly in 2017

Look away from your screen for a second. Go ahead; I’ll wait. What’s going on in the world around you? Are any other people looking up from their screens, or are they all just as absorbed as you were a moment ago?
Related: Planning Your Mobile Marketing Strategy
It’s not just your...

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3 Tips to Declutter Your Product Offerings

The more bells and whistles your product has, the better, right? Not necessarily. A Berkshire Hathaway-owned company recently faced the consequences of an overly complicated product, in what turned out to be a worst-case scenario: legal action.
Related: The Importance of Staying True to Your...

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Join the Perfect LinkedIn Group to Boost Your Bottom Line

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LinkedIn can be a powerful tool for entrepreneurs who know how to use it correctly. Unfortunately, most business owners fail to take full advantage of the site’s Groups...

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Ask and You Shall Receive

When it comes to reading books, I employ a simple rule: 60 pages. I give the author in question 60 pages to convince me to keep reading.
At that point, if I’m not liking it, I give myself permission to put the book down and never look back.
And I have to tell you, it wasn’t looking good...

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Top Tips for Creating a Home Office That Encourages Productivity

Working from home offers a lot of advantages including avoiding the stresses of daily commuting and the ability to dictate your own hours. In addition to that, working from home gives you the opportunity to be your own boss as well as being able to design your workspace to your...

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Monday, January 23, 2017

Apple supplier Foxconn could create 50,000 jobs through new U.S. factory

One of Apple’s biggest suppliers says it may spend more than $7 billion to build a new factory on U.S. soil that would create tens of thousands of jobs.
Foxconn is famous for its enormous iPhone assembly plants in China. Its potential investment in the U.S. came to light last...

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You can’t be both a populist and a free-market conservative

IT WOULD be hard to find two more different characters than Theresa May and Donald Trump; the former a suburban vicar’s daughter, the latter a brash reality TV star. But they face similar problems—how to keep both the markets and their supporters satisfied.
For Mrs May, the problem is h...

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Die AfD will Fördergelder für eine NS-Gedenkstätte streichen

Die AfD-Fraktion Baden-Württemberg will Fördergelder für NS-Gedenkstätte in Frankreich streichen


Fraktionschef Meuthen verteidigt zudem die Dresdener Rede von Björn Höcke


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Ex-Homeland Security Chief to Rejoin New York Law Firm

Jeh C. Johnson, who has stepped down as secretary of Homeland Security, is rejoining the New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where he formerly worked. He will be a partner in the firm’s litigation department.
Mr. Johnson, 59, has worked intermittently at Paul, W...

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Update: Feds say it’s ‘premature’ to judge lease for Trump’s D.C. hotel

The 11th Street entrance to Donald Trump’s D.C. hotel, which is in a building owned by the federal government. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
This story has been updated.
Federal officials overseeing Donald Trump’s lease for his D.C. hotel said it’s too early to determine whether the ...

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Snapchat Discover Takes a Hard Line on Misleading and Explicit Images

Snapchat said it also planned to give publishers a tool in February that would allow them to age-gate content, or stop minors from seeing some content altogether.
The moves — which come ahead of an initial public offering expected for this spring by Snapchat’s parent company, Snap — under...

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Samsung cites two separate battery issues for its Note 7 recall woes

A man walks behind a logo of Samsung Electronics at the company’s headquarters in Seoul. (Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters)
Samsung looked to regain the trust of its customers as it revealed late Sunday that two separate battery issues caused one of its best-selling smartphones to catch fire...

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What presidential rhetoric scholars hope to see in Trump’s inaugural speech

President-elect Donald Trump at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Jan. 19, 2017. (Mike Segar/Reuters)
When Ulysses S. Grant gave his second inaugural address, he closed with an unusually grumbling note. From his time as a Civil War general to both of his campaigns, he said, “I have bee...

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It’s usually difficult for people to agree on a crowd’s size. Here’s why.

“A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” is one of George Seurat’s most well-known paintings. (Art Institute of Chicago/PRNewsFoto)
If there is one fact about crowd size over the weekend that everyone can agree on, it’s that an inordinate amount of time has b...

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Women are reshaping the gun industry

Women are buying handguns in record numbers — especially weapons that are small enough to conceal.
But they are frustrated by the lack of firearm accessories catering to them. So some are starting companies of their own to tailor products to women.
“I thought to myself,...

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2016 In Review: Top Tips from the Best Entrepreneurs in the Business

Over the past year, I’ve compiled more than 150 business-building insights and actionable strategies from some of the top entrepreneurs in their respective fields–including social media market mavens, consultants to some of the world’s most affluent families, and even a...

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Sunday, January 22, 2017

OMCs may recoup card charges at motor fuel outlets through price hikes

Decision to spare dealers from MDR charges has had an impact on private retailers




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The Growth of Artificial Intelligence in Ecommerce (Infographic)

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From creating personalized shopping experiences to offering virtual buying assistants — AI is improving the online shopping experience for consumers and retailers.
Shoppers will be...

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I Used Social Media and Blogging to Become Famous for Nothing

In 2006, I set out to brand myself. I had an idea that I shared with the owner of the small company at which I was employed. I called it “Publish or Perish,” and despite the lack of originality, the idea was simple, but purposeful: We needed to elevate the name recognition of our company R...

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5 Common Writing Problems and How to Fix Them

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Writing is a skill that you can always improve. Whether you are a seasoned copywriter or a marketer who dabbles in writing now and again, you need to keep working on your writing te...

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Small Is the New Big

Do you like hot dogs? Yeah, me too.
And even though they’re not healthy (I’m not even sure they count as food), I admit to indulging in one every now and then.
My favorite spot? Snappy Dogs, an occasionally mobile (it sits on the back of a trailer) hot dog stand located in the rear of a supe...

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Canon U.S.A. Helps Maximize Small and Home Office Business Efficiency with New Series of Wireless Inkjet Printers

MAXIFY iB4120Wireless Inkjet Small Office printer

New MAXIFY Models Ideal for Small and Home Office Business Owners Looking for Cost-Effective Printing Solutions with 100-percent U.S. Based Service and Support
 Designed with users in the legal, accounting, construction, real estate, ...

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Saturday, January 21, 2017

Ahead of women's march, women of color on what's at stake under President Trump

Hundreds of thousands of women are expected to march in Washington D.C. and other cities across the country this weekend to raise awareness of women’s rights and other civil rights issues that many think are being threatened by the Trump administration. The gathering is expected...

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Das sind die Pläne des 45. Präsidenten der USA

Das Weiße Haus hat die ersten Pläne der Regierung Trump veröffentlicht


In Außenpolitik und Außenhandel gilt künftig: “Amerika zuerst”


Die erste Anordnung Trumps: Er macht die Gesundheitsreform von Obama rückgängig

Donald Trump hatte angekündigt, mit Volldampf ins Am...

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Betsy DeVos Won’t Shed Stake in Biofeedback Company, Filings Show

Ms. DeVos and her husband promote Neurocore heavily on the website for Windquest Group, a family office the couple use to manage some of their many investments. The website, for instance, includes a link to a Washington Post article about Kirk Cousins, a Washington Redskins quarterback who...

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Marriott, close to reaping $62 million in subsidies, chooses Bethesda site for HQ

Arne Sorenson, chief executive of Marriott International. (Simon Dawson/Bloomberg News)
Marriott International is still pressing to secure up to $62 million in state and county incentives for a new headquarters, and now the firm knows where it would like to spend it.
The $33.1 billion...

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‘Star Trek’ Copyright Settlement Allows Fan Film to Proceed

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A starship, the U.S.S. Ares, as depicted in “Prelude to Axanar.”

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It was a legal battle worthy of a Federation starship taking on a Klingon destroyer.
On one side was Axanar Pro...

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Donald Trump made it to the White House. His treasured phone may not.

President Trump speaks to the crowd at the Capitol after being sworn in. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post)
Just shy of becoming the most powerful Android in the free world, President Trump’s personal cellphone has reportedly sent its last tweet.
The incoming president of the ...

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In his dark ‘America First’ inaugural speech, Trump has a message for the world

President Donald J. Trump delivers his Inaugural address after taking the oath of office as the 45th President of the United States in Washington. (Shawn Thew/EPA)
President Trump began his dark and forceful inaugural speech by addressing the Chief Justice of the United States, the four fo...

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How a Rust Belt teenager feels about the future under Donald Trump

Matt Gane hangs out on the Mall in Washington with his dad, Ed Gane. (Photo by Danielle Paquette)
Three times, President Trump mentioned the factories. Each time, Matt Gane clapped, feeling as though the country’s new leader was talking about his hometown.
Gane, 17, had taken a bus from D...

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Optimism on Main Street surged in December on hopes for changes under Trump: NFIB

A gauge of U.S. small business confidence rose to a 12-year high in December as optimism about the economy intensified among business owners following the November election, the National Federation of Independent Business said on Tuesday.
The group’s index of small business confidence...

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How Will Trump Policies Affect Small Businesses?

How do you expect the Trump administration will impact small business owners? originally appeared on Quora – the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.

The first thing to keep in mind is, small businesses are by-and-large...

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Are You Aware Of This Brand-New Way To Make Money On Facebook?

Did you know that Facebook users watch 100 million hours of video every day? It’s true. My household accounts for about 30 percent of that number. We like watching kittens, OK?


There are more than a billion people using Facebook every day, and video has exploded on the social media...

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Friday, January 20, 2017

Road outrage: To stop carmakers bending the rules on emissions, Europe must get much tougher

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Gas puzzlers: American regulators investigate Fiat Chrysler for emissions cheating

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Saving Siena: Italy presents the European Union’s new bank-rescue rules with their first big test

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The “special relationship”: Britain should seek Donald Trump’s respect, not his affection

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Rabi sowing nears end with higher area compared to drought year

Till January 20, rabi crops have been sown in 62.83 million hectares, 6% more than last year







As sowing of rabi crops reaches its last stage, the area covered is more than in 2015, but compared to the last normal monsoon...

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Why You Should (Sometimes) Celebrate Your Sales Team's Failures

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As often as experts offer counter-intuitive lessons about the amazing, life-changing results of failure, the fact of the matter is that most listeners don’t really believe them...

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Shaping the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs: the Tips They Need to Hear

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A report by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found that 27 million working-age Americans (or nearly 14 percent) were either starting or running new businesses. Another positive ...

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The Fallacy of Multitasking

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What is multitasking? Does it even really exist? Or is it all in our heads?
Take an example from the domestic realm: Have you ever tried to wash dishes and clothes at the same time? If s...

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4 Easily Overlooked Reasons Your Online Business Is Not Thriving

Internet businesses have come to stay. According to a Hosting Facts report, there were over 3.26 billion internet users as of December 2015. This amounted to more than 40 percent of the world’s population. In addition, the report showed that digital interactions influenced retail sales to the...

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Turning Your Smartphone into a Digital Assistant

One big headache for small business owners doesn’t involve a shortage of energy or effort – it’s the lack of enough time in each day to get everything done that needs to get done.
Small businesses are often constrained by tight budgets and limited staffing, stretching them too thin to hire ful...

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Thursday, January 19, 2017

Treasury pick Mnuchin will defend record on foreclosures

Treasury pick Steven Mnuchin defends record on foreclosures – Jan. 19, 2017


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Steven Mnuchin will defend his record running a California bank at his confirmation hearing for Treasury secretary, saying ...

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A flood of false headlines probably did not swing America’s election

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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

New York Budget Hinges on Contentious Tax on the Rich

Mr. Cuomo’s seeming nihilism was cast in even sharper relief considering he had just unveiled a $152.3 billion budget with a $3.5 billion deficit, a gap that the governor also envisions being filled in large part by tax revenue. And that deficit — caused by softer-than-expected tax revenues —...

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Two contractors allege getting stiffed for work on Trump’s D.C. hotel

The Trump International Hotel on its first day of business in 2016. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Their employees installed plumbing, air conditioning, baseboards and crown molding in Donald Trump’s $212 million luxury D.C. hotel.
Afterward, they say, they were stiffed.
Two W...

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Books of The Times: Review: ‘American Hookup’ Gives College Sex Culture a Failing Grade

But the pages that immediately follow paint a more lurid picture, giving the distinct impression that college kids are fornicating willy-nilly, like so many bunnies in a hutch. One of the very problems Ms. Wade bemoans throughout her book — how the media peddles “salacious stories” about part...

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Why Netflix isn’t worried about GOP plans to weaken Net neutrality

Reed Hastings, chief executive officer of Netflix. (Akio Kon/Bloomberg)
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take the Oval Office, one high-profile tech issue that many analysts are watching is Net neutrality. Republicans are widely expected to seek changes to the rules, which...

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Donald Trump's revealing answer to a simple question about heroes

President-elect Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York on Jan. 13. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
For some, the most alarming comments by Donald Trump in an interview with reporters from Times of London and Germany’s Bild newspaper may have been the ones h...

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Maker of $34,000-a-vial drug to pay $100 million for allegedly preventing competition

(Rachel Orr/The Washington Post)
This story has been updated.
Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals company has agreed to pay $100 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that a company it acquired in 2014 engaged in anti-competitive behavior to preserve its monopoly on a $34,000-a-vial infantile...

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SensaBubble floats novel approach to digital messaging

May 20 – A device that projects text or pictures onto scented bubbles has been created by UK-based computer scientists. SensaBubble uses a concept called ‘chrono-sensory experiences’ to deliver messages its creators say, could be adapted for gaming, education, or even email...

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Daniel DiPiazza: Reading Books Makes You Smarter And Richer (And Healthier)

I love them so much that I built an entire online business off of one dinky blog.


But there’s no blog in the world that can ever compare to a book. You can’t wrap a blog up and give it as a gift.


I’ve been on a particular Amazon binge recently, stocking up my shopping...

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Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Finance and economics: The Greenspan legacy

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Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Beyond Babel: The limits of computer translations

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Govt to streamline pay for rural contractors, agents

These 650,000-odd people work on a non-permanent or contractual basis, in various schemes


The central government is working on a performance-based remuneration structure for the 650,000-odd personnel who are employed in rural areas as employment assistants and community resource...

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