Here Are The Top 10 Part-Time Jobs For 2015
As the country has slowly recovered from the Great Recession in recent years, many workers have been forced to take on part-time or temporary work, as full-time options are often…
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Geico Creates ‘Unskippable’ Preroll YouTube Ads That You’ll Want To Watch Till The End
After sitting through the first five unavoidable seconds of a YouTube preroll ad, most people don’t bother watching the spot till the end. But Geico is now hoping to change…
Geico Creates ‘Unskippable’ Preroll YouTube Ads That You’ll Want To Watch Till The End
After sitting through the first five unavoidable seconds of a YouTube preroll ad, most people don’t bother watching the spot till the end. But Geico is now hoping to change…
Forbes 500 List Reveals A Disturbing Truth About Our Economy
The Forbes 500 is still, as Finance — banking, investing, hedge funds and private equity — accounted for 14 percent of the world’s 500 richest people in 2015, as listed…
Etihad Airways’ Rapid Growth Frustrates Rivals
ABU DHABI — Emerging from the desert like some giant steel squid, the organic forms of Abu Dhabi’s new airport terminal are starting to take shape. The existing airport has…
Here’s The Most Unique Job In Each State
This piece comes to us courtesy of Stateline. Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Charitable Trusts that provides daily reporting and analysis on trends in state…
10 Tricks To Appear Smarter In Meetings
Are you worried that you have to pay attention or be competent to seem smart in meetings? Stop worrying: Here are 10 ways to impress your co-workers without actually having…
At Aetna, A C.E.O.’s Management By Mantra – NYTimes.com
www.nytimes.com: On a recent wintry afternoon, Mark T. Bertolini, the 58-year-old chief executive of Aetna, the health insurer, was sitting in his Hartford office wearing a dark suit and a…
Here Are The Top 10 Billionaires Of 2015
On Monday, Forbes released its annual list of the world’s billionaires for 2015. There were some surprises: Michael Jordan made the list! — but when it comes to the richest…
If Patients Only Knew How Often Treatments Could Harm Them
Follow Us: Get the Upshot in your Inbox MARCH 2, 2015 By Austin Frakt and Aaron E. Carroll – Austin Frakt is a health economist with several governmental and academic…
Walmart’s Visible Hand
A few days ago Walmart, America’s largest employer, announced that it will raise wages for half a million workers. For many of those workers the gains will be small, but…
Google is becoming a wireless carrier
The search giant already makes the most-used mobile software on the planet, it designs and sells phones online, and it has become an Internet service provider with its Google Fiber…
PCs are dead. So says Wall Street. Again.
Related: Microsoft sales soar … for non-Windows products Intel is also emphasizing mobile as well as other growth areas, particularly the so-called Internet of things (aka connected devices) and data…
CEOs make double what NBA players do
The program brings middle schoolers to NBA arenas, but instead of learning about the game, they are drilled on compound interest and how to aim for the C-suite. It’s the…
China tops U.S. at the box office for first time
Chinese moviegoers also love foreign films”Transformers: Age of Extinction,” which was shot extensively in China, was a smash success. But it remains a tricky place for foreign filmmakers. Chinese regulators…
European Prices Continue to Fall, Fueling Concerns
PARIS — Europe experienced a third straight month of falling prices in February, adding to worries about possible deflation, official data showed on Monday, but the jobless rate ticked down…
Boom! Nasdaq finally tops 5,000 again
The plunge was breathtaking. By October 2002, the Nasdaq had fallen to around 1,1108nearly 80% below its all-time high of about 5,132. But tech stocks have come roaring back since…
U.K. fights Russian oligarch over North Sea oil
Related: Putin’s cronies lose $50 billion Fridman’s deal with RWE was first announced a year ago, just as the West imposed its first round of sanctions against Russia over Ukraine….
Guinness returns to sponsor N.Y.’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Brewers Heineken U.S.A. and Sam Adams also withdrew their sponsorships for the parade last year. A spokesman for Heineken said it hasn’t yet decided whether it will sponsor the parade….
Google+ is about to be broken up
Hangouts is Google’s one-stop shop for communications, combining instant messaging, text messaging, Internet phone calls, video messaging and group chats. Particularly because of its presence on Android phones and Gmail,…
Michael Jordan joins billionaires’ club
As in years past, Silicon Valley is the place to be for young billionaires. Among the 46 billionaires under 40 years old were executives at Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat. –…
This tiny card will give your smartphone 200 GB of storage
As smartphones become our primary cameras, those huge photo and video files tend to eat up space pretty quickly. A growing number of cloud storage options, including Google+ (GOOGL, Tech30)…
Costco teams with Citi, Visa
Related: Costco just killed my favorite credit card Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by…
ISIS supporters threaten Twitter founder Jack Dorsey
CNN’s Yousuf Basil and Samuel Burke contributed to this report Related: Meet the vigilante who hacks jihadists
Lumber Liquidators stock pummeled after ’60 Minutes’ probe
A doctor told CBS long-term exposure to chemicals at those levels “would increase the risk for chronic respiratory irritation, change in a person’s lung function, increased risk of asthma” and…
Colorado may have to give all its pot money back
Whenever a new tax is implemented, a law in Colorado aimed at protecting taxpayers’ rights goes into effect. – Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown…
Canadians “Spock” their $ 5 bills
Just for the record, Nimoy was from Boston and Los Angeles, not Canada, and Spock was from Planet Vulcan. Related: Star Trek technology that we use today
New Ikea furniture will charge your phone wirelessly
The Home Smart Ikea furniture uses a wireless charging standard known as Qi. It can be found in some Windows Phones and Android phones, including the just-announced Samsung Galaxy S6,…
Too much Facebook leads to envy and depression
Facebook has allowed me a little window into my friends’ lives back home. They have babieswell some of them have teenagers. They have lovely homes. And the dinnersoh the dinners…
Huawei’s watch is stylish as well as smart
Huawei is a telecoms company based in China. It’s a major player in computer networking, government and mobile communications. Recently, the firm has made a big push into consumer electronics….