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Temp jobs: Will they count against you in a job hunt?
http://fortune.com/2015/05/15/temp-jobs-permanent-employment
Will a long stretch of temping count against you in a job hunt? I got laid off from my accounting job in mid-2009 and, since comparable staff positions were scarce back then, I signed on with a temp agency and started doing short-term contract work with a variety of companies in several different industries. I’ve really enjoyed meeting new coworkers every few months, and I believe I’ve not only kept my skills sharp, but also learned quite a lot along the way. Still, permanent employment is a top priority...
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How Apple lost $533 million to an 8th-grade dropout patent troll
http://fortune.com/2015/02/27/how-apple-lost-533-million-to-an-8th-grade-dropout-patent-troll
How Apple lost $533 million to an 8th-grade dropout patent troll. Apple rarely comments on legal matters, and when it does it chooses its words carefully. So I read with interest the statement it issued after it was ordered to pay $532.9 million to Smartflash LLC for willful infringement of three U.S. patents. It’s a classic of the genre:. You don’t have to love the U.S. patent system or non-practicing entities (A.K.A. patent trolls. To wonder: How the hell did Apple lose this case? And 8,336,772. I have...
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How to build a great American city
http://fortune.com/2014/06/12/lake-nona-florida
How to build a great American city. As our helicopter banks sharply over Orlando, the sinuous shapes and bright colors of Disney World, Epcot Center, and Universal Studios rise up to meet our gaze. This is the land of the theme park, the most visited city in the U.S., and the ultimate family vacation spot. Extensive walking paths on Lake Nona grounds. Photograph by Rebecca Greenfield for Fortune. Interviewed Lewis, who rarely speaks to the press, about then-Florida governor Jeb Bush and the team of polit...
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The first wave of Apple Watch reviews got it wrong
http://fortune.com/2015/04/15/the-first-wave-of-apple-watch-reviews-got-it-wrong
The first wave of Apple Watch reviews got it wrong. Of Apple Watch reviews landed a week ago, and the next day “mixed” was the operative word in nearly every round-up, from HuffPo. To the LA Times. S Neil Cybart, who read every review he could find to the end, begs to differ. 8220;Out of 21 reviews, 14 were pretty much glowing recommendations while 3 were on the fence… and 4 had more concerns than positives.”. The reviewers, he concluded, obliged to balance pros and cons, were grading on a curve. Even mo...
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Volcker Rule Takes Effect Today After Years of Delays
http://fortune.com/2015/07/22/volcker-rule
The Volcker Rule takes effect today after years of delays. A rule that was supposed to be implemented back in 2010 becomes a reality Wednesday five years after its inception. The rule was initially scheduled for implementation in July 2010, but was repeatedly delayed. It is colloquially named for the economist who came up with it: former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker, who led the economic recovery advisory board President Barack Obama assembled in 2009. The rule “was greeted with a shrug.&...Reporte...
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Amaya is buying PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker for $4.9 billion
http://fortune.com/2014/06/13/amaya-pokerstars
Amaya Gaming betting $4.9 billion on PokerStars owner. Amaya Gaming Group is trying to bring the world’s largest online poker website back into the U.S. Amaya, a Canadian manufacturer of betting equipment and software, said Friday. In 2012, PokerStars agreed to pay $732 million. In a settlement of the Justice Department’s civil lawsuit, an agreement that also included the purchase of Full Tilt Poker. PokerStars did not admit to any wrongdoing. Despite that settlement, though, Rational Group...That a New ...
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Craft brewers now produce 1 out of every 10 beers sold
http://fortune.com/2015/03/16/craft-beers-volume-rising
Craft brewers now produce 1 out of every 10 beers sold. American craft brewers now produce about one out of every 10 beers sold in the United States, according to new data from the Brewers Association, an industry trade group. Craft brewers produced 22.2 million barrels last year. 8220;With the total beer market up only 0.5% in 2014, craft brewers are key to keeping the overall industry innovative and growing,” said Bart Watson, chief economist at the Brewers Association. During the Super Bowl. The succe...
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The race to the Internet of things
http://fortune.com/2015/03/05/the-race-to-the-internet-of-things
The race to the Internet of things. Brad Keywell is showing me. The deserted January landscape is chilling enough from within the warm confines of our car, but for Keywell, a serial entrepreneur, Cabrini-Green is simmering with opportunity. See that? He asks excitedly, his large, pale-blue eyes gleaming as he points at a newish-looking suite of mixed income condominiums down the street. That’s just the beginning. It may not be the most famous for long. Photo: Mark Lennihan AP. The 27th-biggest company on...
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Forget BRICS, here are the new 7 best emerging markets for business
http://fortune.com/2015/01/22/the-new-world-of-business
The new world of business. There was a time,. Not so long ago, when it seemed the rugged promise of the globe’s economic frontier could be summed up with a simple acronym: BRIC. To investors and corporate prospectors alike, Brazil, Russia, India, and China were like Gold Rush towns high in the hills deep, rich veins of commerce that could be tapped by anybody quick enough, industrious enough, and brave enough to stake a claim. Mass nearly the size of Europe’s, had an economy smaller than Spain’s. All are...
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Amazon’s Prime Day will be a massive ‘global shopping event’
http://fortune.com/2015/07/06/amazon-prime-day
Amazon’s new Prime Day will be a massive ‘global shopping event’. Amazon is turning 20 next week, and to celebrate the online retail site is launching Prime Day, a global shopping extravaganza for Prime members. The company has whet the appetite of shoppers around the world by announcing that on July 15 there will be a global shopping event, with more deals than Black Friday th. Said in a statement. Not a Prime member? The company expanded its one-hour delivery service Prime Now to parts of central Londo...
