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Klout is dead – how will people continuously rank themselves online now?
The app that analysed and scored users’ online followings has closed after 10 years – to make way for a tool that may cheapen social media even further
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An online marketplace that enables anyone to auction off their available time.
Instead of a race to the bottom with professionals bidding low to win a gig, clients bid on the available time blocks of professionals. Clients can hire who they want, at the time they need.
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Twitter stock nosedives after it reports sluggish revenue growth
Twitter just can’t win with investors. Every quarter it seems to miss expectations on either its financial metrics or its user growth. This quarter it reported that its daily active user count was...
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Aetna’s $37 Billion Humana Takeover Blocked by Judge
Aetna Inc.’s $37 billion deal to buy rival insurer Humana Inc. was blocked by a federal judge, thwarting one of two large mergers that would reshape the U.S. health-care landscape. Aetna said it was considering an appeal. The transaction would violate antitrust laws by reducing competition among insurers, U.S. District Judge John D. Bates in Washington ruled on Monday. With the deal defeated, Aetna owes Humana a $1 billion breakup fee under the terms of the merger agreement.
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Nobel Prize Economists Say Free Market Competition Rewards Deception and Manipulation
It’s “the economy, stupid!” said James Carville, campaign advisor to presidential candidate Bill Clinton in 1992. He wanted to stick it to President George H. W. Bush for an array of economic problems that were tied to the economic recession that started during the Bush presidency. Well, we have a different, broader interpretation of Carville’s statement: that many of our problems come from the nature of the economic system itself. If business people behave in the purely selfish...
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