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People fear they’ve got too much cash in their bank accounts
From Donald MooreThe savers are becoming restless.Running out of guaranteed ways to become meaningful yields, some of us are increasingly being tempted to raid their interest-earning cash savings to load up on resources such as bitcoin, gold and stocks. The comfortable, if small, yields of high-yield savings account are appearing less palatable as volatile assets…
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Canada-based Genecis wins the XTC Global Challenge 2020 – the world’s largest startup competition for entrepreneurs addressing global challenges
How can we improve the world? How can we innovate with purpose? How can we make food that is free of toxins? How do we make quality education accessible? How do we convert waste into value? How do we enable rural farmers to earn a decent living? There are innumerable challenges like these today and…
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11 Benefits of Blogging for Small Business Owners in 2020
Are there any benefits of blogging? Sure there are. For decades, entrepreneurs have promoted their businesses through content marketing. The form content marketing has taken has differed over the years though. Think about the invention of the printing press, the massive impact of television, and then the outburst of digital technologies. One common trend throughout this…
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Sending back foreign students is bad for everyone. Especially US
From Vivek Wadhwa & Alex SalkeverWhat when Sundar Pichai was deported while studying in Stanford? Would he have grown into Google CEO? We can ask this question honestly since, right now, in case there are any future Pichais in Stanford or elsewhere, they’re likely packing their luggage after the US authorities passed a draconian principle…
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A ‘Zero-Sum Game’: Is the World Defeating Itself in the Covid Olympics?
Michael Piontek believes his native Germany is putting too much money on one vaccine. The reason is Donald Trump. In June, Germany paid a whopping sum for a large stake in German drugmaker CureVac, which was developing a Covid-19 vaccine. Piontek was shocked. “Why CureVac?” he thought. The company’s vaccine is based on promising but…
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The art of thoughtful disruption: reimagining the Opower Home Energy Report (part 1)
Our perception of change is interesting: it can feel gradual or sudden, and sometimes it feels gradual while you are in it and then incredibly fast when you look back. Reed Hastings’ decision to move people away from DVDs and toward Netflix’s new online streaming platform back in 2011 was sudden, and it almost killed…
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These 9 Tesla board members stand to make the most if the company’s red-hot stock keeps soaring
Tesla Tesla inventory has skyrocketed over 130% annually, outpacing the broader market. Shares of this automaker have notched several all-time highs in recent weeks. CEO Elon Musk will make payouts when the inventory continues to profit, but board members have stakes in the company that would profit. These are the two board members who stand…
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9 tech skills that will land you a salary of $125,000 or more
Flickr/Thomas Bonte Stack Overflowa favorite Q&A website for programmers, surveyed 65,000 users concerning their wages and what programming languages they use. Based on these responses, Stack Overflow compiled a list of. This poll was conducted in February, prior to the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic in March. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for additional stories.…
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How Americans worry the coronavirus will damage society
REUTERS Brunswick, a strategic advisory firm focused on critical issues, is running a weekly survey to a sample of American workers about their perspectives regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic. The firm asked Americans about what they are most worried about concerning the impact of the pandemic . The negative impact on the worldwide economy had…
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Residential energy is becoming companies’ business
Residential energy is becoming companies’ business Sarah Golden Fri, 05/29/2020 – 01:45 In this crazy upside-down world, the line between residential and commercial energy is getting fuzzy. Everything changed so quickly, it makes sense that climate and energy teams have yet to figure out how to account for the shift. But as companies such as…