Articles filed under Bloomberg
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Illinois dodges downgrade to junk as Moody's affirms ratingJul 21, 2017 1:00 am - Illinois avoided becoming the first junk-rated U.S. state after Moody's Investors Service opted to leave its grade unchanged, pushing the price of the state's bonds to t...
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Former Chicago cop's firm uses technology to predict crimeJul 15, 2017 7:20 am - There's a story Brett Goldstein likes to tell. It starts on a Friday night in 2010 with him sitting in a darkened Crown Victoria on a Chicago Street, poring over maps. G...
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He saved the world from WannaCry; what's next?Jul 15, 2017 7:18 am - The 23-year-old who saved the world from a devastating cyberattack in May was asleep in his bed in the English seaside town of Ilfracombe after a night of partying when ...
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Apple's billion devices give it AR edge over GoogleJul 15, 2017 7:16 am - Later this year, Apple will put augmented reality software in as many as a billion mobile devices. Alphabet Inc.'s Google beat Apple by three years in releasing AR tools...
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United to start buying back, reselling passengers' seatsJul 12, 2017 1:00 am - This week, United Airlines is quietly unveiling a new technology platform that it will use to manage the problem of oversold flights - and, in the same breath, turn them...
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Essay: Why it's so hard to do good work in the modern officeJul 09, 2017 7:21 am - When I peered in the window at 140 Hawthorne St. in San Francisco, the place looked deserted. Maybe Automattic, the company that owns WordPress, had already abandoned th...
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T. Rowe Price CEO: Stock pickers still matterJul 09, 2017 7:17 am - William Stromberg is ready to take on the naysayers. Even as investors continue to abandon actively managed mutual funds, the chief executive of T. Rowe Price Group is d...
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Why the robot takeover of the economy is proceeding slowlyJul 08, 2017 7:23 am - Vik Singh's company has powerful artificial intelligence software that helps firms hunt down the best sales leads. Getting somebody to use it - well, that's a story that...
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Trump's rural broadband goal easier said than doneJul 08, 2017 7:21 am - President Donald Trump has promised to expand broadband service to rural areas as part of his $1 trillion nationwide infrastructure plan. That may be easier said than do...
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Uber, Airbnb, TaskRabbit: How much do people make with these side hustles?Jul 08, 2017 7:16 am - The "gig economy," popularized by the likes of Lyft, Airbnb and TaskRabbit, has for years been promoted as an effective way for Americans to make money on their own term...