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Elon Musk's younger brother is on the board of Chipotle and owns a restaurant chain that's taking off
Business Insider - 12 Mar 2016 15:49
Wikimedia Commons Elon Musk’s younger brother owns an expanding restaurant chain that’s taking off After the brothers sold their company, Zi p2, for $300 million in 1995, Kimbal Musk moved to Boulder, Colorado and f...
Some U.S. Volkswagen dealers revolt amid turmoil
USA Today - 12 Mar 2016 04:30The 4 Mindset Shifts Marketers Need To Make Now
Forbes - 12 Mar 2016 05:41
If we see the rules as fixed, we'll tend to be limited by conventional barriers of achievement. But if we see that paradigms are, to a large degree, self imposed, the possibilities are endless. We are only bound by what ...
Scientists say lifting weights this many times a week may be beneficial for your brain health
Business Insider - 12 Mar 2016 21:48
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Every 25-year-old in America needs to see this chart right now
Business Insider - 12 Mar 2016 20:27
In its 2016 Guide to Retirement, J.P. Morgan Asset Management included a powerful illustration of how compounding returns lead to huge differences between investors who start out young and those who wait until later in t...
Is Barclays doing enough to protect its customers?
The Guardian - 12 Mar 2016 09:01
As more stories of people being defrauded in a highly lucrative email con trick come to light, pressure is growing on the bank at the centre of it all Barclays is coming under growing pressure to explain why so many acts...
Wall Street's rough first quarter leaves big banks reeling
New York Post - 12 Mar 2016 06:45
Wall Street looks like it's getting ready to fall off a cliff. The world's biggest banks are bracing investors for lower first-quarter profits this year, as roiled markets have slammed trading and all but put the brakes ...
City Council spit take: Move on MLB chewing tobacco a lot to swallow
Chicago Tribune - 12 Mar 2016 02:35Sony's Future Lab unveils Project N hands-free headphone prototype
Venture Beat - 12 Mar 2016 23:17
Sony’s Future Lab unveiled the first of many concept prototypes that it wants your feedback on. At the South by Southwest Interactive conference, the company touted its first project called “N”, a hands-free headph...
Comparing The Free 2016 NCAA Tournament Contests: Yahoo! Offers Prize To 1st Place; ESPN & CBS Don't
Forbes - 12 Mar 2016 20:00
With the NCAA selection committee expected to soon announce its 2016 tournament brackets, college basketball fans have already begun to scour the web for free NCAA Tournament contests to join. Once again this year, eac...
Elon Musk's younger brother is on the board of Chipotle and owns a restaurant chain that's taking off
Business Insider - 12 Mar 2016 19:02
Wikimedia Commons Elon Musk’s younger brother owns an expanding restaurant chain that’s taking off. After the brothers sold their company, Zip2, for $300 million in 1999, Kimbal Musk moved to Boulder, Colorado, and ...
6 ways marketing clouds will help you burn the competition (webinar)
Venture Beat - 12 Mar 2016 22:17
VB WEBINAR: With marketing covering more territory and tasks than ever, marketing clouds are becoming indispensable. But figuring out where to start and how to choose can make walking on hot coals a more attractive under...
Edovo, Maker Of Tablet-Based Education For Inmates, Aims To Reduce Recidivism--And Continues To Grow
Forbes - 12 Mar 2016 21:40
Edovo, a startup with a tablet-based education platform for inmates aimed at slashing recidivism, is in a SXSW pitch competition
Go board game champion Lee Sedol apologizes for losing to Google's AI
Venture Beat - 12 Mar 2016 20:13
Lee Sedol, who many people believe to be the top player of the ancient Chinese board game Go, put up a real fight in each of the three games against Google’s AlphaGo artificial intelligence (AI) program, but in the end...
Valve enables players to play non-VR games on the HTC Vive
Venture Beat - 12 Mar 2016 20:00
Valve just announced that it has launched an early beta test for the SteamVR Desktop Theater Mode, which enables players to play non-virtual-reality games with VR systems. The new mode will work with the upcoming HTC Viv...
3 Leadership Lessons that Executives Can Learn From Ronald Reagan
Forbes - 12 Mar 2016 19:35
I was recently at a marketing conference talking with Mike Murtagh, the VP of Advancement at Eureka College, about Ronald Reagan. Reagan happens to be the Illinois school's most famous graduate. I was listening intently ...
Unicorns aside, it's a good time to start a business
Venture Beat - 12 Mar 2016 19:09
GUEST: There's been a healthy amount of chatter lately from analysts and tech writers that we are approaching a meltdown in startup financing. Unicorns, those startups valued at $1 billion or higher, are being downgraded...
Avoiding The Obamacare Penalty
Forbes - 12 Mar 2016 17:45
Here's a look at how to avoid the Obamacare tax penalty.
5 Big Dividend Investing Mistakes (And How To Avoid Them)
Forbes - 12 Mar 2016 17:38
Dividend stocks are a great way to build long-term wealth. But how do you pick the right ones—and steer clear of companies whose payouts are headed off a cliff?
European Banks Are In Desperate Need Of Borrowers: Where Will They Come From?
Forbes - 12 Mar 2016 17:38
European banks with excess reserves have two choices: first, deposit them with ECB -- and pay ECB for this privilege -- or lend this money out and get paid by the ECB for doing so! Simply put, under the new ECB policies ...
Why Fruit Ninja developer Halfbrick went to an analytics boot camp
Venture Beat - 12 Mar 2016 17:20
Mobile gaming is more a science than an art, and that’s a problem for some developers that are heavy on creativity and lacking in a capacity to crunch through data. That’s why one company is offering a boot camp-styl...
Is Fitbit A Buy Down Here?
Forbes - 12 Mar 2016 17:19
Fitbit looking good