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JUNE 20, 2011

HSBC, the large global bank formally known as Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, has come up with CIVETS to describe a group of countries that will be the next economic powers.    The CIVETS are: Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

 Yahoo's Whoa: That Police Officer is a. The authors of that study also felt 40%-50% of U.S. will at risk of being replaced by automation. A good example of the type of robots entering the market is Throwbot, a small robot being used for survelliance by SWAT teams. Robot does a nice job of describing how Throwbot is used.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Yahoo CEO on Local Content | Main | Non-Mortgage Debt and Working in Retirement » June 30, 2010 Wisconsin, Illinois Companies Feeling the Recovery The QPS Employment Group is a staffing and recruiting firm operating in Wisconsin and Illinois. 

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JULY 22, 2010

My wife told me about an article on Yahoo (Buzz I think) today or yesterday about the thousands of inventors out there that can't get funding. Short and sweet. I actually didn't know there was too much capital chasing good deals. Maybe a VC specializing in individual inventors would flourish.

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JUNE 29, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Silicon Prairie | Main | Yahoo CEO on Local Content » June 29, 2010 Frugal Innovation and Homemade Nuclear Fusion One of the most powerful trends impacting business (and society) is the shift towards lightweight technologies. 

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JANUARY 8, 2018

job growth comes from the Yahoo Finance article Challenge for Trump: Job Growth is Slowing. .  U.S. job growth slowed in 2017 to an average of 171,000 jobs created per month, down from an average of 186,000 jobs created each month in 2016. 2017 was also had the lowest U.S. job creation total since 2010.  The chart below on U.S.

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JULY 27, 2020

   Key quote from the founder of Frame in Yahoo Finance's article This startup works like a dating site for therapy : “We facilitate free intro calls,” she said. .  Both Frame and Sondermind do this by asking patients to fill out questionnaires and based on the answers provide multiple therapist alternatives.  

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MARCH 30, 2017

Yahoo rather famously did this several years ago and Google and Apple have always tried to limit telecommuting. And by 2009, when remote work was still, for most, a novelty, 40% of IBM’s 386,000 global employees already worked at home. IBM, of course, isn't the only well known example of a company reducing or eliminating telecommuting.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

According to the Yahoo Finance article How the gig economy will fare under President Trump , the president-elect said he in favor of less regulation. This would reduce the tax drop benefits for some independent workers and many small businesses. But the net effect would still be positive. Trump has also commented on Airbnb.

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