Новости за 17.01.2017

Bonds can be a valuable tool in any retirement income plan, thanks to their low volatility, but how should you go about incorporating them?

Nintendo has added a sharing button to the Switch that will allow players to capture video from their games. Such an addition makes for a great moment where Nintendo can fix its incredibly outdated YouTube policies.

Americans are less optimistic about the kind of change Trump will bring to the country than they were initially about Obama. Still, the polls suggest that more people believe Trump’s changes will be for the better than for the worse.

We’ve written in this space before about the record number of bankruptcy filings last year, particularly among companies in the commodity space (oil & gas, coal and mining in general). But in the third and fourth quarters of 2016, we began to see somewhat of a recovery among coal companies [...]

As Exxon CEO Tillerson is said to have negotiated directly with Fort Worth billionaire Sid Bass. Will Rex keep delivering long after he's gone?

If you want to sample what these two cities have to offer in less than a week, Forbes Travel Guide has one action-packed itinerary for you.

I was pleased and proud when I learned that two of my former UC Santa Barbara students, Sieva Kozinsky, Founder of StudySoup and Eric Posen, Co-founder of Naritiv, made Forbes’ 2017 30 Under 30 list. This caused me to wonder which schools generated the most awardees. To this end, with the [...]

You don’t get a do-over when it comes time to retire. That’s why it’s critical to have your retirement plan in place earlier rather than later.

FSBO is “down,” but is it really? The 2016 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers by the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) found that for sale by owner (FSBO) sales are at an all-time low, at only eight percent, versus the all-time high set back in 1981 at 21 percent. Considering it’s [...]

Last month, entrepreneur and writer Benjamin P. Hardy voiced an ambitious goal—to create an online course based on his articles and to sell 500 seats in the first week of 2017. Here's how it went.

Netflix ($NFLX) is scheduled to release earnings after Wednesday's close. The stock is prone to big gaps (up and down) after reporting earnings so to help you prepare, here is what the Street is expecting.

Eric Yuan left Cisco in 2011 to build his own new version of WebEx. Now his video conferencing startup Zoom is valued at $1 billion after a $100 million investment by VC firm Sequoia Capital.

Guest postby Liesel Pritzker Simmons Pritzker Simmons is Co-Founder and Principal of Blue Haven Initiative, a single-family office she formed with her husband, Ian Simmons. Liesel oversees a portfolio structured to generate financial returns and address social and environmental challenges. She is a member of the family, entrepreneurs and philanthropists best [...]

Today’s column looks at the potential effects of public pensions, restricted applications, multiple exes and widow(er)'s benefits.

With a high number of counterfeit products being sold on major e-commerce websites, some consumers are losing confidence in buying high-end goods online. eBay is looking to address this issue through a service powered by a network of professional authenticators. Called eBay authenticate, this service was launched recently by the [...]

An artist's impression of an exotic binary star system. Image credit: M. Garlick/University of Warwick/ESO. When you think about our Solar System, with its lone, luminousstar dominating both the mass and light of our local corner of the Milky Way, you might think that this is what 'typical' looks like. In [...]

The Trump Era Begins The world has turned upside down. How you feel about the ascendancy of Donald Trump to the Presidency depends on whether you were already standing right side up or were already upside down. There is so much happening all at once that it is dizzying for long [...]

The Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) works with some of the biggest, most successful companies in the world to voluntarily provide more options that make the healthy choice the easy choice for consumers. We encourage President Trump to support their efforts.

The prolonged slump in commodity prices has led to a severe deterioration in the profitability and returns of oil and gas companies across the globe. ConocoPhillips , one of the largest independent oil and gas companies, has also witnessed a drop in its profits over the last two years, with [...]

At CES 2017 augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) were everywhere. There were demos in many of the booths, and CES had devoted a segment of the South Hall to AR, VR, and gaming. Going by CES standards, you would expect that VR was already a pervasive technology. But [...]

Are we seeing a pattern of investor overreach into startups in India? Many are starting to lament how young businesses, like Snapdeal and Flipkart, are facing excessive interference from venture capitalists. But how well founded are these suspicions?

Oxfam has told us all that 8 people have as much wealth as the bottom 50% of humanity and this is an outrage, Something Must Be Done. OK, so, let us think about what must be done then. The most obvious point being that we should reverse the outrage. Take [...]

Dangote Industries, the conglomerate controlled by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is establishing a $100 million truck assembly plant in Lagos in a move that is expected to create about 3,000 jobs.