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August 2, 2016
What Uber China's Merger With Didi Means For The Company's Future
After years of bruising competition that cost them billions, the merger makes both companies much stronger.
On Monday, Uber China and its biggest rival in the country, ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing agreed to merge, ending a fierce competition between the two companies that was costing them billions of dollars. While Uber has a stranglehold on the market in many other countries, in China it was losing money, reportedly to the tune of $2 billion over the past two years.
These Are The 50 Best Places To Interview For A Job This Year
The best places to interview are probably not the companies you associate with the best employee experiences.
If you think the best places to work are also the best places to interview at, you're sorely mistaken.
An Exclusive Look At Airbnb's First Foray Into Urban Planning
Airbnb announces a brand-new innovation lab called Samara, whose first project is a novel community center in Japan.
Two years ago, the founders of Airbnb were asking themselves what the company could become, now that its vision of becoming the world's largest home-share community had come true beyond their wildest expectations. That's when they happened across a list of the top 10 tech companies of the 1990s. They were stunned—and scared. Nine of those once-hot companies were now floundering or dead, and they had all done everything right. But by simply focusing on their core businesses, each of those startups had allowed competitors to copy them. Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk realized that if they weren't thinking of what else their business might become, Airbnb would eventually become a dowdy has-been.
8 Steps To Push Past Your Limits When You Think You've Hit Them
We're all excellent storytellers, especially when it comes to spinning a tale about why we failed. Here's how to stop doing that.
Sometimes, when it comes to achievement, our biggest enemy is ourselves.
How The Most Emotionally Intelligent People Make Great First Impressions
You have a tenth of a second to make the right impact, but nailing that moment is all about behaviors you can practice beforehand.
You have a tenth of a second to make the right impact, but nailing that moment is all about behaviors you can practice beforehand.
We've all been told ad nauseam how how important first impressions are—how it takes just a fraction of a second for others to form opinions about us. Not only have Princeton psychologists estimated that we form impressions of strangers based on their faces within just a tenth of a second, they discovered that longer exposures don't significantly alter those initial assessments (even though our confidence in those judgments may strengthen when we're given more time). And we also know that negative first impressions are difficult to overcome.
4 Ways To Snap Into Speaking Mode Right Before Your Next Presentation
Self-affirmations may feel corny and strained, but these four statements can help remind you how prepared you really are.
Self-affirmations may feel corny and strained, but these four statements can help remind you how prepared you really are.
You're hours away from that big presentation you're scheduled to give, and you're feeling anxious. Jittery. Your palms are already sweaty. The familiar recommendation to just take a deep breath may not quite cut it—and might actually hurt your delivery. So what can you do instead?
Leadership Lessons From The Man Who Runs The U.S. Olympic Track Team
CEO Max Siegel shares his strategies for managing a team on a high-stakes project: the Olympics.
At this moment, 129 American track and field athletes are settling into their living quarters in Rio de Janeiro as part of the 555-person strong Team U.S.A. They are getting acclimated to the weather and training daily, using every last minute to prepare physically and mentally for one of the most important events of their lives. But behind the scenes, Max Siegel has been planning this moment for years.
Here's What You Need To Negotiate At Each Stage Of Your Career
Negotiation is one job skill you'll always need. But the things you'll want to negotiate should change with your career.
If you're looking for ways to advance your career, you'll find lots of well-informed people telling you to change, grow, and learn new things. That isn't bad advice. It's been argued that the job skills you need, the types of people in your network, and even the ways you use social media all have to evolve depending on the stage of your career and the one you're trying to reach.
August 1, 2016
IBM Says New Chip Can Filter Blood For Signs Of Cancer
Particles that might hold markers for cancer pass through a silicon obstacle course that sorts them by size.
Cancer starts small—at the nanometer scale, as DNA, RNA, and proteins develop harmful defects. So cancer detection has been moving down in size—toward "liquid biopsies" that filter blood and other bodily fluids to detect problems in cells or pieces of cells before tumors emerge.
How Women Are Swiping The Weirdness Out Of Online Dating
A growing movement of activists and entrepreneurs is putting the spotlight on creeps and trying to make Internet dating a more human affair.
At first glance, Nathan seemed damn near perfect. At least, as far as one can tell from Tinder: He was a coffee-loving "urban adventurer" from the Midwest and an entrepreneur who walked dogs on the side. Oh, and get this: a self-described feminist. Finally, a guy that gets it. So when Nathan (not his real name) matched with Alexandra Tweten, a 28-year-old woman living in Los Angeles, she was eager to start chatting. The similarities just kept piling up. Like her, he loved beer, tattoos, and pizza. In his free time, he could be found digging through all the right vinyl genres: indie rock, shoegaze, electronic, and new age. Jackpot.
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