The unprecedented trio of major hurricanes that slammed the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico could wipe out job growth for September and October, and some economists are expecting actual declines. “We’re creating an average 175,000 jobs a month … The problem is it looks like the hurricane disruption will overwhelm those job gains in September […]
Read moreNaya Health hit the headlines this week as a poster child for the lack of venture funding for women’s health products. But reports in Bloomberg and New Yorker didn’t make a clear case for why the company should be attractive to venture capitalists, who look for billion-dollar opportunities. At $1,000, the pump a lot more […]
Read moreUber is announcing a few notable changes today, starting with a new feature that allows drivers to offer an additional layer of feedback to unruly riders. Working off the assumption that no one likes IRL confrontation, drivers can now choose from a preselected list of reasons to explain why they rated a passenger as less […]
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Live photos, which record a short clip of action when you snap a picture, are typically on but can be toggled by pressing the circular button on the side of your camera screen. Once it’s on, try to take a picture of a moving object, like your child jumping into the swimming pool. This will […]
Read moreDetails leaking out about the Republican tax reform plan hint that while two popular deductions would remain intact, they’d become useless to the majority of taxpayers who now take advantage of them. GOP lawmakers have signaled they’ll retain the tax breaks for mortgage interest and charitable contributions even as they pursue eliminating others. Yet given […]
Read moreAmerica’s largest employer is now working with America’s largest social network. Walmart has signed on as a new customer for Workplace, the enterprise version of Facebook’s social network specifically for interoffice communication. Facebook won’t say exactly how many of Walmart’s 2.3 million employees are using the Workplace service, but confirmed that it is Facebook’s largest […]
Read moreAmazon‘s recent $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods won’t really change brick-and-mortar retail, billionaire real estate investor Sam Zell told CNBC on Tuesday. “I don’t mean to be disrespectful of Amazon, but I don’t think Amazon reinvented the wheel. I don’t think buying Whole Foods is going to make it easier for Amazon to fulfill […]
Read moreAlways the man of mystery, Elon Musk is building the excitement ahead of his presentation later this week about just how humans will travel to and live on Mars. The SpaceX chief will be presenting an updated vision for his plan to get humans to Mars at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) conference in Adelaide, […]
Read moreJames Dyson, the billionaire inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, said his company was building a “radical” all-electric car for launch in 2020, with a commitment to spend 2 billion pounds ($2.7 billion) on solid-state battery technology and vehicle design. Dyson said a 400-strong team of engineers had already spent two and a half years […]
Read moreOath, the Verizon-owned parent company of Yahoo, is releasing for free some of its most important internal software, which the company has long used to make recommendations, target ads and execute searches. The Vespa software solves a common but surprisingly difficult problem: quickly figuring out what to show a user in response to input, like […]
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