Articles filed under Bloomberg
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Apple who? Fitbit says Smartwatches 'more hype than reality'Sep 12, 2015 7:35 am - SAN FRANCISCO - Even with a heavyweight like Apple in the market, smartwatches remain "more hype than reality" and have yet to prove they're useful, said Fitbit, the big...
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Apple's iPhone financing, leasing means more options for youSep 12, 2015 7:34 am - Apple will finance and lease the iPhone for the first time, providing new competition to the nation's wireless carriers by offering consumers a way to get the latest mob...
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Why more employees are going back to their old jobsSep 07, 2015 7:32 am - Gone are the days of a burned employer writing off an employee who decides to leave for a different company. So-called boomerang employees-workers who return to a former...
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Hands on with Samsung's new Gear S2 smartwatchSep 07, 2015 7:00 am - Right now every electronics company is trying to figure out what the special sauce is that will help it bring smartwatches to the wrists of mainstream consumers (just ye...
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'Bonkers' and 140 other words never to say to market reportersSep 06, 2015 7:41 am - The comedian George Carlin darn near made a whole career out of a routine about seven words you're not allowed to say on television. The seven words were ... aww, shoot,...
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Aerial dog fences can't be counted on to curb wayward dronesSep 06, 2015 7:37 am - They've buzzed the White House, come too close to planes, attempted to airlift drugs over prison walls and interfered with firefighters in California. In fact, drones ha...
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Why you could be getting a big raise in 2016Sep 06, 2015 7:35 am - Even as the landscape for wages looks bleak, at least one rung of the compensation ladder is doing just fine. And 2016 may be even better. White-collar workers will get...
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How Costco, warehouse clubs have transformed retail more than AmazonSep 05, 2015 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON _ From the arrival of e-books and digital music in the 1990s to the recent explosion of online subscription services such as Stitch Fix or Birchbox, it's easy...
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TheScore bets on NFL debut of fantasy app for stock reboundSep 05, 2015 7:41 am - TORONTO - TheScore Inc. is betting a new fantasy app the Canadian sports news provider will unveil during the National Football League season will rejuvenate a stock tha...
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Amazon's 401(k) plan is pretty brutal, tooAug 30, 2015 7:30 am - To judge by Amazon's 401(k) plan, the giant online retailer doesn't have much in common with its more benevolent Silicon Valley peers. The workplace culture now under sc...