Articles filed under Bloomberg
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Microsoft introduces Slack rival to lure business-chat usersNov 05, 2016 7:19 am - Microsoft Corp. unveiled a corporate team-chat service that works with its cloud-based Office and Skype products, aiming to take on Slack Technologies Inc. and Atlassian...
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Angel investing boom fuels conflict in clubby Silicon ValleyNov 05, 2016 7:18 am - Oracle Corp.'s biggest cloud-computing takeover is in peril, partly the result of an investment made by Larry Ellison 18 years ago in what was then a little-known startu...
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Instagram experiments with mobile shoppingNov 05, 2016 7:15 am - For a week in May, some of Instagram's designers, engineers and product managers met not at the company's Menlo Park, California, headquarters but at a rented house, sto...
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Wall Street coders wanted, elite college degrees not necessaryNov 05, 2016 7:11 am - For almost five years, Gregory Furlong worked 50-hour weeks as a shipping clerk at a Best Buy two miles from his childhood home in Wilmington, Delaware. It was a kind of...
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How Cubs championship hats get to your store so fastNov 03, 2016 1:00 am - The moment Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant scooped up the ball and chucked it over to first for the final out of the 2016 World Series, workers 300 miles east of ...
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Cubs fans who didn't make it: a banker, a nun and a moving manNov 01, 2016 1:00 am - Much attention has been paid to those long-suffering, elderly Chicago Cubs fans who finally got to see their beloved team play in the World Series. The last time was in ...
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Next 10 years will be ugly for your 401(k)Oct 30, 2016 7:14 am - It doesn't seem like much to ask for - a 5 percent return. But the odds of making even that on traditional investments in the next 10 years are slim, according to a new ...
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Bill Ford to Silicon Valley: The future of cars is in DetroitOct 30, 2016 7:13 am - Bill Ford is tired of hearing the future of cars belongs to Silicon Valley. Yet for years, the Apple and Google crowd have been telling him that only Big Tech can make d...
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Pearson taps IBM's Watson as tutorOct 29, 2016 7:20 am - The world's largest education company is leveraging IBM's Watson platform as it tries to take college tutoring from campus libraries to the virtual world. Pearson is par...
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Nintendo hints of bigger ecosystem for its new SwitchOct 29, 2016 7:18 am - Nintendo's new gaming console Switch is part of a bigger plan that will include more accessories, a deeper lineup of software and possible tie-ups with other technologie...