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People with relatively minor health problems—say, the flu or a deep cut—aren’t the only ones getting relief from growing walk-in “urgent care” companies such as CityMD and PM Pediatrics. These companies also are providing a little tonic to retail landlords. In the last four years, more than 20 of these centers have opened in the…
Continue reading the main story Generated by ai2html v0.52 – 2016-03-14 – 17:26 ai file: readingdata preview: 2016-03-11-readingdata scoop : reader-data Artboard: 300 The percentage of readers who finished reading each chapter of three specific e-books. How people read a successful U.S. novel … 62 percent of readers finish the book. Front pages including a…
Recently, I landed the tech-journalism equivalent of a Thomas Pynchon interview: I got someone from Twitter to answer my call. Notorious for keeping its communications department locked up tight, Twitter is not only the psychic bellwether and newswire for the media industry, but also a stingy interview-granter, especially now that it’s floundering with poor profits,…
For the better part of the last decade, Silicon Valley tech companies have seemingly been on a mission to make up for the down years following the burst of the dot-com bubble, spending money at a record clip. The new offices have been stunning, the sales kickoffs have been larger than life, and the holiday parties have…
Picture a startup founder. Chances are you went straight for a Mark Zuckerberg-type: male, white, nerdy and, above all, young. Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004, three years after the collapse of the dotcom bubble, at the age of 20. Twelve years later, the company he founded is worth $270bn, and the tech world is in…
via Valuewalk.com, The Canadian housing market has done extremely well for a very long time. As such, many people expect the trend to continue. That said, there are major vulnerabilities in the Canadian economy that pose a threat to the housing market’s continued success. In the following report we will examine the economy, the financial…
Fannie Mae (OTCQB:FNMA) and Freddie Mac (OTCQB:FMCC) are two government sponsored enterprises that according to the White House Budget are private companies that promote home affordability in America. According to the public statements made by Treasury, both represent broken business models and Treasury served and still is serving the public good when they pumped billions…
When it comes to ad-supported services, pundits everywhere are fond of the adage “If you’re not the customer you’re the product”. It’s interesting, though, how quickly that adage is forgotten when it comes to evaluating the viability of said services. Twitter is a perfect example. In response to my piece How Facebook Squashed Twitter I…
Begin: WordPress Article Content The startup gold rush of the last ten years is over. Sorry. Those hordes of ambitious entrepreneurs still stampeding to the Bay Area in the hopes of building their Minimum Viable Product, getting into Y Combinator, and growing their app into the Next Big Thing–they’re already too late. That era is…
Glass ceiling? What glass ceiling? That’s the view of the vast majority of male employees when it comes to workplace discrimination faced by women, according to a new PayScale survey—and it points up a huge challenge to overcoming the problem: You can’t fix something that you don’t see. The PayScale survey, conducted online over the…