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  • 50 Amazing Job Perks

    MoneyTalksNews, huffingtonpost.com Mon­eyTalk­sNews: Tech com­pa­nies will go to amaz­ing lengths to recruit tal­ent­ed employ­ees – and keep them from jump­ing to com­peti­tors. An increas­ing­ly impor­tant part of the equa­tion is ben­e­fits. A recent New York Times… http://flpbd.it/fG8hC 50 Amazing Job Perks Related articles Get Creative with Job Perks (business.time.com) Looking for a Lesson in Google’s…

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  • President Obama tears into Mitt Romney at last debate Alexander Burns, politico.com Pres­i­dent Barack Obama tore into Mitt Rom­ney as a vac­il­lat­ing for­eign pol­i­cy novice dur­ing the final pres­i­den­tial debate Mon­day, as the for­mer Mass­a­chu­setts gov­er­nor sought to close Obama’s long-standing advan­tage on…

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  • President Obama tears into Mitt Romney at last debate Alexander Burns, politico.com Pres­i­dent Barack Obama tore into Mitt Rom­ney as a vac­il­lat­ing for­eign pol­i­cy novice dur­ing the final pres­i­den­tial debate Mon­day, as the for­mer Mass­a­chu­setts gov­er­nor sought to close Obama’s long-standing advan­tage on…

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  • President Obama tears into Mitt Romney at last debate Alexander Burns, politico.com Pres­i­dent Barack Obama tore into Mitt Rom­ney as a vac­il­lat­ing for­eign pol­i­cy novice dur­ing the final pres­i­den­tial debate Mon­day, as the for­mer Mass­a­chu­setts gov­er­nor sought to close Obama’s long-standing advan­tage on…

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  • President Obama tears into Mitt Romney at last debate Alexander Burns, politico.com Pres­i­dent Barack Obama tore into Mitt Rom­ney as a vac­il­lat­ing for­eign pol­i­cy novice dur­ing the final pres­i­den­tial debate Mon­day, as the for­mer Mass­a­chu­setts gov­er­nor sought to close Obama’s long-standing advan­tage on…

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  • Obama campaign uses social science to boost Pennsylvania turnout

    Obama campaign uses social science to boost Pennsylvania turnout Byron Tau, politico.com The Obama cam­paign emails sup­port­ers in Penn­syl­va­nia this handy graph­ic remind­ing them to find out some sim­ple infor­ma­tion about elec­tion day. The email seems straight­for­ward enough, but it’s actu­al­ly an exact clone of a social… http://flpbd.it/QUp0x Related articles Get wired or wither: GOP…

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  • How Fly Farming May Help More Fish Stay In The Sea

    How Fly Farming May Help More Fish Stay In The Sea Eliza Barclay, npr.org What’s the lowly house fly got to do with the $60 bil­lion fish farm­ing indus­try? Quite a lot, says Jason Drew, a jet-setting British entre­pre­neur who is so enthu­si­as­tic about the poten­tial of flies, he’s just writ­ten a book called T……

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  • ZocDoc: Investment in Digital Health Triples

    Investment in Digital Health Triples Over Past Year Richard MacManus, readwrite.com It’s not just mobile health (mHealth) that is grow­ing fast. The over­all dig­i­tal health sec­tor – which includes mHealth, B2B apps and con­sumer ser­vices such as Zoc­Doc – is also rapid­ly expand­ing. That’s if ven­ture cap­i­tal fund­ing is… http://flpbd.it/eKNSC Related articles ZocDoc plans to…

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  • TSA Taking Controversial X-Ray Scanners Out

    TSA Taking Controversial X-Ray Scanners Out Of Big Airports And Shipping Them Off To Smaller Ones Chris Morran, consumerist.com Image from a backscat­ter machine Accord­ing to reports, the TSA is remov­ing backscat­ter full-body scan­ners, which use very small amounts of ion­iz­ing radi­a­tion, from major air­ports and replac­ing them with less-controversial mil­lime­ter… http://flpbd.it/CHJnN Related articles TSA…

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  • 6 Reasons Layoffs Are Really Dumb

    Erik Sherman, inc.com TECHTOWN It seems like smart just-in-time staffing: You hire for big projects and then let people go when they wrap up. But here’s why it hurts more than it helps. For the most part, there aren’t many par­al­lels between the cutting-edge… http://flpbd.it/wfdkE 6 Reasons Layoffs Are Really Dumb Related articles AFL-CIO’s Trumka:…

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  • Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education

    Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education bloomberg.com Cour­tesy of Udac­i­ty Udac­i­ty, the dig­i­tal uni­ver­si­ty co-founded by arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence and robot­ics pio­neer Sebas­t­ian Thrun, has raised $15 mil­lion, join­ing a crop of online edu­ca­tion star­tups to attract ven­ture cap­i­… http://flpbd.it/1FyIx Related articles Google Launches HTML Game Development Course with Udacity (apievangelist.com) Is…

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  • Don’t Hire the Best Person for the Job

    Jessica Stillman, inc.com START IT UP According to one expert’s counter-intuitive advice, here’s who you should hire instead. Inter­view­ing for many small busi­ness own­ers is more of an art than a sci­ence, rely­ing on gut instinct and a col­lec­tion of care­ful­ly… http://flpbd.it/k2Svl Don’t Hire the Best Person for the Job Related articles Slow into Flow…

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