Category Archives: Business
How to Use Flow to Make You More Productive
Flow is a blissful state of effortless productivity where distractions vanish. Here are five ways to achieve this state of mind.
Source:: Entrepreneur
Google Blocked Over 780 Million Bogus And Annoying Ads In The Past Year
More than 1,000 Google employees are playing whack-a-mole with crummy and dangerous ads.It’s no wonder that use of ad blockers is taking off, given that online ads are often annoying at best and illegal and dangerous at worst. Google today put some big numbers behind the bad-ad epidemic by reporting that, in the past year, it blocked more than 780 million of the very worst from getting through its ad network. Among the offenders: malware, links to data-stealing phishing sites, and those ads on mobile Web browsers and apps that are almost impossible to not click on.
Source:: Fast Company
U.S. Growth May Struggle to Find Support From the Third Quarter’s Strongest Industries
Shoppers cover themselves from the rain while waiting to enter a Best Buy in San Diego in November. Fourth-quarter retail sales have looked weak.
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The Commerce Department’s breakdown of gross domestic product by industry shows broad-based growth through the third quarter of last year. But some of the strongest performers have since faltered, leaving underlying strength of the economy in question through the end of 2015.
The latest report is meant to complement the department’s widely followed gauge of economic output by types of expenditure, such as personal consumption, trade and business investment.
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Source:: wsj
How a Rule Change by Pope Francis Gives a Lesson in Leadership to All
The Pope knows what he believes, is clear about his intentions and isn’t afraid to fight.
Source:: Entrepreneur
Ex-Drug CEO Martin Shkreli Ordered to Testify on Spike in Drug Pricing
A congressional committee has demanded that Shkreli appear at a hearing about his decision to raise the price of a lifesaving medicine by more than 5,000 percent.
Source:: Entrepreneur
