Articles filed under Bloomberg
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What it's like to work inside Apple's 'black site' for contractorsFeb 17, 2019 5:22 am - Apple's new campus in Cupertino, California, is a symbol of how the company views itself as an employer: simultaneously inspiring its workers with its magnificent scale ...
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Analysis: At fireside chats, the talk is all smoke and no flamesFeb 17, 2019 5:00 am - Man invented fire. Business Man ruined it as a metaphor. The fireside chat is a mainstay of the corporate conference. Businesspeople fly in from around the country, chec...
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TV magnate Shari Redstone now prefers to curl up with podcastsFeb 16, 2019 5:09 am - When Shari Redstone gets home, she doesn't sit down in front of the television. The media mogul, whose family made billions of dollars in TV, prefers to catch up on "CBS...
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PopSockets conquered America's phones. Next up, Asia's.Feb 16, 2019 5:08 am - Nine years ago, a philosophy professor named David Barnett glued two buttons to the back of his mobile to keep his headphone wires from getting tangled. Now he's plannin...
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Analysts are questioning the latest retail sales figuresFeb 14, 2019 12:00 am - So much for a merry Christmas. That is, if you trust the numbers. Figures released Thursday by the Commerce Department show U.S. retail sales fell 1.2 percent in Decembe...
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How OpenTable can help you avoid at least one Valentine's Day fightFeb 12, 2019 12:00 am - Where to eat dinner is a high-stakes question, and never more so than on Valentine's Day. There's the double-edged challenge of picking from a seemingly infinite pool of...
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A new Toys 'R' Us emerges from the wreckage - and it's looking for partnersFeb 11, 2019 12:00 am - The remnant of Toys "R" Us Inc. is looking for licensing partners to revive the brand in several parts of the world, including in the U.S. by next Christmas. "That's cer...
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#MeToo has a Lehman moment as pre-crisis case drags on and onFeb 10, 2019 5:00 am - Sexist comments, lewd gestures - and worse. Allegations like these are sorely familiar in the #MeToo era. Only this time, they hail from what seems like Wall Street's Da...
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Russia offers a glimpse of the future of car sharing, and carmakers should be terrifiedFeb 09, 2019 5:16 am - When Evgeny Barkov owned a car, the 31-year-old software salesman would often look out of his Moscow window at it with disgust. His possession sat unused more than 90 pe...
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Cloud-computing giants keep growing despite slowdown fearsFeb 09, 2019 5:09 am - Cloud-computing companies have a message for skittish investors: demand is still booming. Earnings reports from the biggest providers of internet-based computing service...