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13 retailers that are not only surviving but thriving

Seven years into a bull market for U.S. stocks, we’re seeing warnings every day that valuations may be too high. But the economic news is mostly positive , and many big retailers are increasing sales and widening profit margins. Earnings season is nearly over, and analysts polled by S&P Global…

Sep 4, 2016

3 Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn From College Football

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College football season has, at long last returned, and that means that many Americans will be following their favorite teams trials and tribulations on a weekly basis. I know that I will. Anyone who knows me understands that there are two things that get me going: growing my company and Arizona…

Sep 4, 2016

Apple just tweeted for the first time — but not really

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Apple Inc. activated a long-existing but never used Twitter Inc. account Friday, and just after noon Pacific time, its first “tweet” hyped its expected iPhone debut next week. September 7 at 10 a.m. PT Watch the event on https://t.co/yLa2e4Xr2R . RT for a reminder on event day. #AppleEvent…

Sep 3, 2016

Police Puppies Offer An Adorable Alternative To Scary Police Dogs

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Cartoon by Keith Knight Use of police dogs have been in the news because of a guy in Ohio who got 45 years for killing one . I got to thinking that police puppies would be a far safer, and more pleasant way to seek justice. Cartoon by Keith Knight . Launch Gallery Comment on this story

Sep 3, 2016

Entrepreneurs With A Great Idea Need A Great Partner

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(L to R) Moderator and Internet entrepreneur Yossi Vardi, Chemi Peres, Managing General Partner and Co-Founder of Pitango Venture Capital, Edouard Cukierman, founder and Managing Partner of Catalyst Investments, Adam Singolda, founder and CEO of Taboola, Amit Lang, Director General at the Israeli…

Sep 3, 2016

Hacker who targeted U.S. officials gets more than 4 years in prison

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Home General National news The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Sept 1, 2016 7:04 p.m. ET Share ‘Guccifer’ admitted hacking about 100 Americans Reuters Marcel Lazar Lehel is escorted by policemen in Bucharest, Romania, after being arrested in 2014. By Kate…

Sep 2, 2016

IRS Redefines "Spouse," "Husband and Wife" To Include Same-Sex Couples

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Same-sex couples have faced no shortage of obstacles on their path towards equality in this country: religious dogma, deep-rooted bigotry, and eight seasons of Will & Grace have proven hard to overcome. But overcome they have, as evidenced by two recent landmark court cases that have dramatically…

Sep 2, 2016

Kaymera: The Anti-Spy Android OS Made By The Hottest iPhone Hackers In Surveillance

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Kaymera – an Android operating system that works on off-the-shelf devices. Its owners also hack mobiles, whether running Google or Apple’s OS. “We don’t have any relationship with NSO Group,” says Avi Rosen. He’s keen to put distance between the company over which he presides, the secure Android…

Sep 2, 2016

The amazing technology advances you’ll probably see in your lifetime

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By the time I’m 66 years old, roads will be filled with autonomous cars, I’ll have a holographic avatar for a personal assistant and my grandkids will be traveling the world while never leaving the classroom, thanks to the magic of augmented reality. Oh, and assuming I carry my fashion-forward…

Sep 1, 2016

4 Tools For Lowering Anxiety In Any Situation And Performing Like A Boss

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Whether it’s in response to an upcoming presentation, interview, round of layoffs, new position, or networking meeting , anxiety is an emotion we encounter repeatedly throughout our careers (and…lives). It’s not a comfortable experience, and it’s not meant to be. Anxiety is an evolutionarily…

Sep 1, 2016

Reset your Dropbox password — 68 million stolen in 2012 hack

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 31, 2016 8:46 p.m. ET Share Company says Wednesday it underestimated severity of breach Shutterstock 68 million Dropbox usernames and passwords were stolen in 2012. By Robert…

Sep 1, 2016

Amazon and Wells Fargo abruptly end student loan partnership

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A partnership offering discounts on Wells Fargo student loans to members of Amazon Prime Student has abruptly — and quietly — ended. An Amazon AMZN, -0.76% spokeswoman confirmed in an email to MarketWatch that the company is no longer offering the student loan promotion, which allowed Prime Student…

Aug 31, 2016

Microsoft to sell MSN China to XiChuang Technology

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 30, 2016 7:32 p.m. ET Share Chinese firm run by former Microsoft exec Getty Images Microsoft said in May it planned to shut down the Chinese Web portal. By Jay Greene Three…

Aug 31, 2016

How IoT Refines What Sales Success Looks Like

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Shutterstock Back in the 1960s the successful salesperson was typically seen as a confident and trusted ally that helped you solve a variety of business issues. It’s a given that the product or service had to work; the core of the relationship, however, was personal. It was between two people who…

Aug 31, 2016

Workforce Live Preview: Andrew Robinson Podcast - Workforce Magazine

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Workforce Live Workforce Live Preview: Andrew Robinson Podcast Workforce Live's Frank Kalman chats with Dallas speaker Andrew Robinson from TGI Fridays on his upcoming talk at the Four Seasons Dallas on Sept. 7. August 30, 2016 Hear Workforce’s very own Frank Kalman interview Andrew Robinson, senior…

Aug 30, 2016

Tesla Still Driving Towards The Perfect Autopilot With New Restrictions

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Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tesla is a smart company run by smart people. They know that there are going to be some missteps in the quest to achieve great things. Tesla has revolutionized how we view electric cars and are going to be at the forefront of how we transport ourselves in the…

Aug 30, 2016

Russian hackers targeting U.S. think tanks, security firm says

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 30, 2016 5:20 p.m. ET Share Cyberattacks linked to same group that hacked DNC Bloomberg News Center for Strategic & International Studies, confirmed on Tuesday that it was…

Aug 30, 2016

Asia's Quest For Google's Lunar X Prize

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Buzz Aldrin and Larry Page of Google with Bob Weiss and Peter Diamondis of the X Prize Foundation in September 2007. (AP Photo/Ric Francis) Google’s lunar X Prize competition is visionary. Sixteen teams from around the world are competing for the “Moon Shot” with a grand prize of $20 million and a…

Aug 30, 2016

FBI warns hackers are targeting state voter records

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 30, 2016 4:15 a.m. ET Share Recent cyberattacks on two state election boards Bloomberg News Federal officials have grown increasingly concerned that hackers, and even foreign…

Aug 29, 2016

Should The Boss Apologize For Having An Affair?

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Regrets: Antonio Horta-Osorio, chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group (Photo: Jason Alden/Bloomberg ) The British Press is calling its latest sex scandal “Lloyd’s Bonk.” The nation’s largest retail bank, still partly owned by the U.K. government has been caught with its trousers down. Or, rather,…

Aug 29, 2016

Brain implants would make ‘The Matrix’ come to life

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“The Matrix” is now 17 years old, but I still remember my jaw dropping when Neo interfaced with the Matrix for the first time and uploaded a kung-fu database directly to his brain. My first thought was: Wouldn’t it be cool to upload information directly into our minds, instead of wasting time and…

Aug 28, 2016

This Suburban Dad Positioned His One-Man Business To Break $2 Million This Year

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Not many people break $1 million in a one-person business . Laszlo Nadler , whose startup appeared in this blog last year, blasted through that milestone in 2015. This year, the father-of-two, based in East Brunswick BC -0.27% , N.J., is on track to break $2 million at his Amazon store…

Aug 28, 2016

6 Predictions For How IoT Tech Will Affect Online Marketing And SEO

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pexels.com We’ve got a few major technological developments competing to be the next major tech revolution, akin to the rise of the Internet a few decades ago. Virtual and augmented reality are contenders, but an even bigger phenomenon may be the Internet of Things (IoT). Through the IoT, everyday…

Aug 27, 2016

Want to invest in self-driving cars? Check out the chips

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The vision of a world that depends on self-driving cars has been the hottest topic in Silicon Valley this summer. In the past few weeks, a slew of partnerships have formed between big auto makers, tech companies and startups as companies place a variety of bets to ensure they are not left behind.…

Aug 27, 2016

Frank Ocean cranks up the Apple vs. Spotify beef

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Since launching Apple Music last summer, Apple Inc. has shelled out some of its massive cash reserves to the music industry’s biggest and brightest stars, landing exclusive album releases on the streaming service. But now there is a brewing backlash to Apple’s strategy. Last week, Universal Music…

Aug 26, 2016

You Can Fix Critical iOS Security Flaw By Jumping To iOS 10

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Apple AAPL +0.57% and security experts are urging iOS users to update to the newly released iOS 9.3.5 as soon as possible. Apple developed the update to address critical security flaws in iOS after exploits were used to compromise iPhones and spy on journalists and dissidents in the wild. Another…

Aug 26, 2016