This article was sourced from Market Watch. Article by Thomas H Kee Jr. Equity investors will receive information in three important areas over the next week, and two have been the driving force behind the stock market’s recent euphoria. First, China will release its export data on Wednesday. Given the growth warnings officials communicated over the […]
This article was sourced from Bloomberg. Article by Ellen Huet. There are a few early clues that a startup will be successful, according to market researcher Quid: Have the company’s founders worked together before? Is the business in a hot sector, one where many other new startups are also focusing? Has it raised funding at a […]
This article was sourced from Bloomberg. Article by Shelly Hagan. After a euphoric market debut, Snap Inc. shares dropped for the first time in three days and fell below the opening price of $24 on their first day of public trading after analysts began weighing in with their thoughts on the company’s true valuation. The parent company […]
This article was sourced from Bloomberg. Article by Eddie Van Der Walt. Rhodium’s on the best run in a decade on expectations of more demand for the material that’s used in cleaning toxic car emissions. One of the rarest precious metals, it climbed the past seven months and is up 19 percent this year, outperforming most […]
This article was sourced from Fast Company. Article by Daniel Terdiman. Virtual reality has been around for decades, but 2016 was the year millions of consumers got their hands on the technology for the very first time. Though the headsets are still bulky and ugly, they’re giving people breathtakingly immersive digital experiences. At the same time, […]
This article was sourced from Fast Company. Article by Ronald Pies. The phrase “alternative facts” has recently made the news in a political context, but psychiatrists like me are already intimately acquainted with the concept—indeed, we hear various forms of alternate reality expressed almost every day. All of us need to parse perceived from actual reality […]
This article was sourced from Fast Company. Article by Sean Captain. If you’re nodding off while reading this, it might not be because of my writing. You may not have had enough sleep—either the overall duration or the right mix of light, deep, and REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. Lots of fitness trackers measure the duration […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Kate Conger. After several courts shot down his executive order that banned travelers from seven nations from entering the United States, President Trump today made another attempt to implement his proposed Muslim immigration ban. Trump signed a new executive order this morning that reduces the list of affected nations to […]
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This article was sourced from Business Insider. Article by Mary Hanbury. Dallas Thompson has been fantasizing about a J. Crew purple cocoon coat for weeks. Unfortunately, the $US259 coat doesn’t come in her size. Thompson, who runs herown fashion blog, is a size 24. Shopping for fashionable clothes in her size can be a nightmare. “It’s […]
This article was sourced from Bloomberg. Article by Adam Haigh. Asian stocks were poised for a mixed start as the yen remained stronger and Australian bonds retreated with investors taking their first chance to react to China’s National People’s Congress and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s speech. The yen strengthened from its level prior to Yellen’s remarks […]
This article was sourced from Business Insider. Article by Frank Chapparo. David Hysong’s life is like something out of a James Bond film. The 29-year-old recent inductee to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for science has travelled the back roads of four different continents on his motorcycle. He’s been hit by a bus going 60mph, […]
This article was sourced from Bloomberg. Article by Jan-H Foerster and Jeffrey Vogeli. Credit Suisse Group AG’s push to expand in some areas of trading and across its wealth management businesses will make it harder to build up capital buffers at the same pace as last year, Chief Financial Officer David Mathers said. After selling billions […]
This article was sourced from Bloomberg. Article by Rahul Karunakar. Euro zone manufacturing growth accelerated to a six-year high in February as a weaker euro helped drive strong demand for its exports, with inflationary pressure showing further signs of recovering, a business survey showed. While the upturn in euro zone factory activity was not shared by […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Tien Tzuo. So much for the death of the newspaper industry. A recent Nielsen Scarborough study found that more than 169 million U.S. adults now read newspapers every month, in print, online or mobile. That’s almost 70 percent of the population. The New York Times picked up […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Natasha Lomas. With retro phone brands Nokia and Blackberry remerging at Mobile World Congress this year you’d be forgiven for thinking Mistress Fortune was up to her old wheel-spinning tricks again. And as old tech becomes tech news again, it’s a sign — say some — that smartphone innovation is on […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Tom Goodwin. In a month where Facebook launched its TV app with Samsung as a launch partner, we have to ask what this means for TV and then every other channel. What if social media was just becoming the aggregation layer we accessed content through? The concept […]
This article was sourced from LinkedIn. Article by Steve Blakeman. “They have one job to do. One job to do!” said Cheryl Boone Isaacs, President of the Film Academy. And boy did they mess that one job up. As a consequence, the accountants responsible for collecting votes and handing out the envelopes, Brian Cullinan and Martha Ruiz […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Devin Coldeway. The only thing I like less than getting a 50-megabyte attachment in an email is not getting it because it bounced. That should happen less frequently now that Google has raised the bar for Gmail accounts, and anything up to 50 megs is A-OK. Honestly, […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Matthew Lynley. Snap has given a final price for its IPO, setting the company’s valuation at nearly $24 billion with a price of $17 per share, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. With that, it looks like Wall Street had plenty of appetite for […]