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July 15, 2016
A Grammy Winner, A Circus Master, And An Apple Veteran On Career Reinvention
Stewart Copeland cofounded The Police. Kelli Richards grew up where her Apple office later stood. These are their career-change tips.
I grew up in Cupertino, California, before Apple ever existed. Later, I spent 12 years leading the company's music and entertainment business. My office at the time sat right where I'd picked apricots as a kid.
July 14, 2016
Even More Valuable Than His Endorsement, Bernie May Have Started Sharing Data
The Sanders voter data and email lists could be key to Hillary Clinton uniting the party and even winning the White House.
On Tuesday morning in a carefully choreographed appearance in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders ended his bid for the presidency and endorsed his fierce rival, the "establishment" candidate Hillary Clinton, much to the chagrin of millions of hardcore Bernie supporters.
How To Successfully Use Social Media At Every Stage Of Your Career
Social media is useful beyond your initial job search. Find out how to best utilize these tools to advance your career.
Want to learn more? Check out the full article here.
The Feds Just Cleared The Way For 5G, But Don't Hold Your Breath Waiting For It
New, insanely fast cellular technology will be radically different from what came before it, but getting it to work will take time.
The U.S. took the lead on cellular technology today when the Federal Communications Commission approved a plan making massive swaths of spectrum available for the next generation of wireless service, called 5G. Pushing the limits of physics, the promise of 5G is huge: data speeds from 10 to 100 times faster than what 4G offers (well over one gigabit per second for 5G) with virtually no lag, known as latency.
Watching Your Live Streams For Violence And Porn Is Now A Job For AI
Content on live video platforms like Facebook has been largely moderated by humans, but that's changing.
Yesterday, a week after the girlfriend of Philando Castile broadcast the aftermath of his shooting by a police officer on Facebook Live, another live stream showing yet more violence began spreading on Facebook. A young black man listening to music with two friends in a car in Norfolk, Virginia, was broadcasting on Facebook Live when he and his cohorts were shot in a flurry of bullets. Unlike the first video, which was briefly taken off Facebook due to a "technical glitch," the second video remained on the man's Facebook page.
Who's Using The iPad Pro At Work? Tattoo Artists
How Apple's biggest tablet, the iPad Pro, is leaving its mark—in indelible ink—on the tattoo industry.
It's 9:30 on a drizzly morning in San Francisco's SOMA district, and the day is just getting going at Seventh Son Tattoo. As I sit on a leather couch at the front of the studio with tattoo artist David Robinson, staffers are coming in, coffee is being brewed, and floors are being swept.
The Business Etiquette Guide To Emojis
Like it or not, smileys and assorted other tiny sentiment boosters are creeping into our work correspondence. Here are some dos and don'ts.
When was the last time you added a smiley or some other small graphic as a stand-in for words in a message to your boss or coworkers? Chances are it was pretty recent: A recent study found that nearly half (41%) of workers use emojis in professional communications. And among the senior managers polled, 61% said it's fine, at least in some situations.
If You Can Only Spare 15 Minutes A Week For LinkedIn, Do This
It takes much less time than you think to stay "active" and "engaged" on LinkedIn.
July is here and I bet your dance card's pretty full. Barbecues, weddings, camping trips—who has time for LinkedIn?
The Scientific Reason Why Coworking May Be The Future Of Work
Sure, the coworking movement may be a fad, but these researchers say it has a surprisingly strong psychological basis.
Employees from the likes of General Electric, Walmart, and Toyota— 4,000 companies a year, in fact—wend their way to a 60-person company based underneath a parking garage in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
A 6-Step Plan To Figure Out Your Next Career Move
You hate your job and and want a new one, but have no idea what's next. Here's how to get a clue.
More than half of U.S. workers aren't satisfied with their jobs. But even when you hate your job and you know it's time to make a change, it can be difficult to know what to do next. So, it's easy to stall, do nothing, and remain unhappy. That's a mistake, says career coach Barbara Sher, author of the best-selling Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want, and several others.
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