Articles filed under Bloomberg
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Allstate CEO starts unit to grow 'aggressively' in telematicsAug 05, 2016 1:00 am - Allstate Chief Executive Officer Tom Wilson created a stand-alone unit for a telematics business that he expects to grow rapidly by collecting data on drivers and sellin...
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Smartphones overtake computers as top e-commerce traffic sourceJul 30, 2016 7:11 am - For retailers at least, the most important screens are now the small ones. Smartphones accounted for 45.1 percent of web-shopping traffic in the first quarter of this ye...
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Are Americans finally getting smarter about money?Jul 24, 2016 7:17 am - Over the past decade, Americans got a crash course in money management. The financial crisis and the great recession offered a ton of lessons-the dangers of debt being a...
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By this measure, home ownership has never been more valuableJul 24, 2016 7:12 am - The value of owning a home in the United States has never been greater, at least according to one figure buried in a monthly Commerce Department report. The share of Ame...
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Google sprints ahead in AI building blocks, leaving rivals waryJul 23, 2016 7:15 am - There's a high-stakes race under way in Silicon Valley to develop software that makes it easy to weave artificial intelligence technology into almost everything, and Goo...
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The 10 most dramatic moments of the Republican conventionJul 22, 2016 1:00 am - The Republican convention wrapped up Thursday night in Cleveland with a lengthy speech from nominee Donald Trump and a requisite balloon drop. But the four-day long conc...
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Landlords giving tenants a shot at buying their rental housesJul 10, 2016 7:23 am - Melissa Suniga and her mother had been renting a three-bedroom Phoenix house for less than a year when their landlord, Blackstone Group's Invitation Homes, gave them the...
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Chip cards could mean end of ATMs at bars, corner storesJul 10, 2016 7:11 am - That ATM in the dark corner of the bar could be on its way out. By October of this year, ATM owners in the United States have to replace or upgrade their machines to acc...
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Buddhist monk uses age-old wisdom to create driverless taxisJul 03, 2016 7:23 am - Hisashi Taniguchi took a sabbatical from developing software for driverless taxis and drones to pilgrimage to a Buddhist temple in western Japan. He shaved his head, don...
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Millennials are pretty cocky about their investing skillsJul 03, 2016 7:18 am - One of the great things about young people is their optimism, the confidence that everything is going to work out. Sometimes, though, that can get them into trouble, lik...