Articles filed under Bloomberg
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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...
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IBM, Slack to build smarter data-crunching chatbotsOct 29, 2016 7:14 am - IBM is teaming up with Slack Technologies Inc. to make it easier for companies to build custom chatbots into the startup's workplace-messaging systems, the latest move b...
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Inside the iHome: Apple teams up with builders to pitch gizmo-packed housesOct 29, 2016 7:11 am - In a darkened master bedroom, David Kaiserman stood in shirt sleeves next to a turned-down king bed. "Good morning, Siri," he said to the iPad in his hand, and the light...
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The rise of the webcam job interviewOct 23, 2016 7:11 am - The future of job interviews might horrify you. It horrified Jake Rosen. A recent graduate of UCLA, Rosen was applying to be a page at NBC (yes, yes, just like Kenneth) ...