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 Dough Alexander and Katia Dmitrieva. Canada’s financial industry is urging the federal government to consider alternatives to proposals that could require them to take on a greater share of mortgage defaults through a deductible — calling it one of the biggest shakeups to hit housing finance in 50 […]
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 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 Fast Company. Article by Michael Grothaus. “Any moment, someone could come through the door, tap me on the shoulder, and tell me that it’s been concluded that I’m really not very good, certainly not an asset to the business, and it would be better for everyone if I packed my things and […]
This article was sourced from Fast Company. Article by Mike Elgan. Twenty years ago, a Hitachi executive named Tsugio Makimoto predicted a revolution. In the future, he wrote, high-speed wireless networks and low-cost mobile devices will break the link between occupation and location. Thanks to Moore and his Law, millions would indulge an innate wanderlust by […]
This article was sourced from Market Watch. Article by Catey Hill. In some places around the world, even rich residents don’t pay income taxes. An analysis of personal top income tax rates released Thursday by Howmuch.net revealed that residents of some countries — many of which are in the Middle East — don’t pay any income […]
This article was sourced from Market Watch. Article by Greg Robb. The Federal Reserve on Monday fleshed out how its new fan charts might look when the central bank adds them to their economic projections starting next month. Analysts said the descriptive charts will be used to stress the uncertainty of its quarterly economic forecasts. A […]
This article was sourced from The Wall Street Journal. Article by Liz Hoffman. Morgan Stanley said it had given a “significant number” of wealth-management clients incorrect information that caused them to underpay their taxes. In its annual regulatory filing Monday, Morgan Stanley MS, +0.68% said it is in “advanced discussions” with the Internal Revenue Service to […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by John Mannes. Conversational AI is pushing deeper into enterprise with Workfit, a new startup promising to make conference call follow-ups and mid-meeting CRM updates as easy as playing a song or checking the weather on Google Home or Amazon Echo. Battery Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Salesforce Ventures and […]
This media release was sourced from Australian Financial Security Authority. Media release: NSW (ROSENBERG) Mr Gary Steven Rosenberg of St Ives, New South Wales, was sentenced on 21 February 2017 after pleading guilty to an offence of materially contributing to his insolvency by gambling. Mr Rosenberg filed for voluntary bankruptcy in June 2014. Between June […]
This article was sourced from Forbes. Article by Jason Bloomberg. In many corporate boardrooms, the word Agile conjures up images of small teams of hotshot software developers, iterating over their backlogs of requirements so rapidly they don’t have time to sit down during their daily status meetings. At ICAgile’s inaugural Business Agility 2017 conference in New […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Christoffer O. Hernæs. The idea of a cashless society is one of the topics that stirs up a heated debate when it comes to the digitalization of banking and society. On one hand, physical cash is the common denominator for corruption, tax evasion, money laundering and other various illegal […]
This article was sourced from Corrs Chambers Westgarth. BACKGROUND In the recent Court of Appeal decision of Primary Securities Ltd v Willmott Forests Limited, liquidators had been appointed to an insolvent company which was the responsible entity of a managed investment forestry scheme. Later, the Appellant replaced the company as the responsible entity of […]