Friday, July 31, 2015
New Product Innovation in Student Loan Refinancing
There has been a significant increase in the number of lenders in the student loan refinancing market since 2012, spurring growth in product innovation. This article outlines several of these important innovations by student loan lenders that could help you better manage your student loan repayments, including differentiated repayment periods, eligibility for non-US Citizens, forbearance and deferment offers, cash back bonuses and hybrid loans.
How Do Hackers Learn Their Craft?
How Do Hackers Learn Their Craft? This question was originally answered on Quora by Kim Guldberg.
Movers & Shakers: AIG, Tyson, Clorox earnings in focus
Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Monday’s session are American International Group, Tyson, and Clorox.
How Do Hackers Learn Their Craft?
How Do Hackers Learn Their Craft? This question was originally answered on Quora by Kim Guldberg.
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Regulation & Compliance: An Interview with Adam Kokas, Atlas Air Worldwide
Adam Kokas, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Human Resources Officer and Corporate Secretary of Atlas Air Worldwide discusses regulation and compliance.
Killer Robots: One More Thing To Worry About?
The autonomous warfare horse has already left the barn. It?s too late to call for a moratorium on such innovation. At best such a call will be ineffective. At worst, it will put our side at a disadvantage in the ongoing cyberwar.
Land Of Opportunity: Two Brothers Cash In On Singapore's Multi-Billion Dollar Startup Investment
Two brothers are cashing in on a virtual land of opportunity in Singapore, where the government is investing billions of dollars into startups. The city-state is the leading destination in Southeast Asia for start-ups. With investor-friendly, government-matched finance programmes, low taxes for individuals and businesses, ease of use factor, and political stability, VC investment in Singapore’s
MarketWatch First Take: Lynda.com can’t hide LinkedIn issues
LinkedIn went on a roller coaster ride Thursday after the company’s better-than-expected earnings, as a fast start from acquisition Lynda.com only briefly masked a sputtering display ad business and static usage for the professional-networking site.
How Ancient Origami Techniques Could Help Engineers Fold In 3-D
Folding is going rogue. The action that's been reserved for thin, flexible materials is about to get a boost, as scientists are discovering folding panels and thick sheets of wood or metal, could all be possible.
Why It's 'Game On' For Video Entrepreneurs
Live streaming apps transform the way major events are broadcast to a global digital audience.
Snoops Can Silently Track You Just Looking At Your Typing, Clicking And Battery Status
No matter how many protections web users take, someone will find a way of tracking them. According to researchers, just using a keyboard, mouse and phone or laptop battery leaks enough information for snoops to have their wicked way. There are some solutions to this burgeoning problem, however...
MarketWatch First Take: Facebook mulls purchases on Instagram, but warily
Facebook Inc.’s second quarter earnings call with investors lacked much of the drama that Twitter and Yelp created a day earlier, but one tidbit of interest was a brief discussion of new ways the company may make money from Instagram.
Remote Control Biology
Here at Lux we are approached on a weekly basis by PhDs looking to leave academia and enter industry. The first question I ask them is “How much time do you have left before graduating?” What I’m really asking is “How much time do you have left to network the hell out of industry?” There’s a lot of downtime in science, and that downtime is invaluable if your mind is made up that professorship is not for you.
Growing bacterial clones? Inoculate the liquid media, place flask in a shaker at 37 degrees, and wait 3-6 hours.
Trying to get an understanding of gene expression? Add DNA to master mix, distribute at infinitesimally low volumes in 384-well plates, place in PCR machine, input settings and wait 2-3 hours.
Want to visualize protein expression? Grow cells (at least 1 day), fix cells to dish (hours), add antibody to cells and wait overnight.
Running gels, growing bacteria, transfecting cells, enzymatic reactions, sequencing, PCR, breeding mice, sectioning, staining and imaging tissue it all takes time. And there’s a lot of waiting. Now for the PhDs that aren’t long for academia, that time can be spent researching their next career move. But there’s another movement that is specifically looking at that downtime, and further to the entire process of biological experimentation and thinking that science research can get a whole lot more efficient – at Lux we call them the biological hackers.
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
The A-hole Defense
Bad bosses beget revolving-door workforces doomed to failure. Good bosses create loyalty and retain good employees.
IronSource CEO Tomer Bar-Zeev Paves the Road to Success
Recently, I sat down with Tomer Bar-Zeev, CEO of IronSource, to discuss how IronSource was designed to keep developers focused on the task at hand, and satisfying customers while monetizing the product.
Scientists Solve The Cosmological Mystery Of Lithium In The Milky Way
European scientists have solved the lithium problem of the Universe for the first time, by spotting the chemical element exploding out of a nova.
The anti-social network: Users are ‘detoxing’ from Facebook, Twitter
Has the “digital detox” trend reached a tipping point?
How To Make A Killer First Impression Before You Even Open Your Mouth
Non-verbal cues can say it all.
The Tell: Facebook stock options point to post-earnings fireworks
Traders of Facebook stock options are pricing in some extra fireworks after the social network reports second-quarter results.
MarketWatch First Take: Yelp pulls reviews of lion-killing dentist
As if Yelp didn't have enough problems, it is now looking like the bad guy in an international furor over the American who killed Cecil, Zimbabwe’s most famous lion, on a hunting trip.
'Purpose Creates Movements And Builds Tribes,' Author Says
Author Ty Bennett argues that finding and living your purpose will enable you to build success as a social entrepreneur.
The Ratings Game: Analysts waiting for Twitter’s rollout of features to simplify platform
Though Twitter beat earnings expectations, analysts are cautious as they wait for the rollout and outcome of new features designed to make the platform more understandable and easy to use.
Damn Right, There Is Only One Park City
How do you turn two very different ski areas into one unified brand and vision? In the case of Vail Resorts, the answer seems to be by dreaming big and simultaneously making the fewest possible changes.
Market Snapshot: U.S. stocks end higher as Fed leaves September hike on the table
U.S. stocks close higher Wednesday after the Federal Reserve offered no clear indication of the timing of the next rate hike, but left itself room to act as early as September, citing continued “solid” gains in the job market
Five Customer Experience Lessons British Airways Taught Me
My British Airways experience was so memorable and thought-provoking I have to thank them for the inspiration for this article. It was not from how they delighted me but for providing numerous examples of how companies today have gotten “customer experience” wrong.
Facebook haters just took another hit
Users love the social-media platform, which bodes well for the stock, writes Michael Brush.
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