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How to turn your side hustle idea into a real business According to a survey by YouGov and Volusion, 84% of full-time workers would rather pursue a career tied to one of their passions than their current job. And there is a way to pursue your passion without quitting your job: Start a side...

‘Audience is a commodity’ says Bleacher Report COO Alex Vargas The first few months of a calendar year can be sleepy for some publishers, but not for Bleacher Report. The Turner-owned sports publisher has already announced a content partnership with Caesars focused on sports betting and wrapped...

Apple acquires talking Barbie voicetech startup PullString Apple has just bought the talent it needs to make talking toys a part of Siri, HomePod and its voice strategy, with the acquisition of PullString. The company makes voice experience design tools, artificial intelligence to power those...

German Accounts Although it shrank for the third year in a row, Germany had the world's biggest current account surplus (at 7.4%) last year, thanks to strong exports. The new figures could add to criticism of Chancellor Angela Merkel's fiscal policies. The European Commission has been saying...

Huawei Defiance Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei says the U.S. will not prevail in its crusade against his company. "There's no way the U.S. can crush us," said Ren. "The world cannot leave us because we are more advanced. Even if they persuade more countries not to use us temporarily, we can always...

Brexit Latest Carmaker Honda will close a major U.K. plant in 2021, cutting 3,500 jobs. Why? Brexit is a factor, according to staff—although the company denies it. Speaking of which, seven lawmakers have quit the opposition Labour Party for a variety of reasons, one of which is Brexit and the...

Facebook Regulation Facebook says it is "open to meaningful regulation" after a report by U.K. lawmakers said the company acted like "digital gangsters" when it came to fake news, privacy and antitrust. That's the kind of (entirely characteristic) response that plays really badly in Europe—new...

Rare Michael Jordan shoe found at a demolition site expected to fetch $20k https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nba/2019/02/18/most-significant-air-jordan-shoe-saved-crumbling-milwaukee-mall/2872366002/

Brexit Donor Odey Renews Sterling ‘Short’ Position, Does Not See Hard Brexit (Reuters) (Reuters) – British hedge fund manager and Brexit supporter Crispin Odey said on Monday he was again positioning for sterling to weaken, calling the currency “mortally damaged”. The trade reverses a move...

Insider Trading at Apple: Objectivity Under Cloud(Nyoooz.com) According to the suit filed, he continued with insider trading from 2011 to 2016, a long period of five years. Last week Apple’s former lawyer, Gene Levoff, was accused of insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission...

A Very Special Situations Hedge Fund (HedgeNordic) Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – After a relatively difficult first year since launching in December of 2015, Danish special situations fund Formue Nord Markeds neutral is providing more evidence of its uniqueness with each passing month. The...

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Woman And Octopus Are Best Friends - ELORA & EGBERT | The Dodo

Lee Radziwill, who parlayed her cachet as the younger sister of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis into a varied career as a fashion tastemaker, interior decorator, actress, princess and grande dame of cafe society on two continents, died Feb. 15 in New York. She was 85...

Fire breaks out at Tesla factory in Fremont https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/16/fire-breaks-out-near-tesla-factory-in-fremont/

The company printing cars:Local Motors is a startup that makes autonomous vehicles using the largest 3D printer in the world. The company has debuted a crowdsourced, 3D-printed, autonomous, AI-assisted shuttle named Olli. It can be manufactured to order, so it could end up as a clinic on wheels...