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Even as campaigns to promote strong young women get national headlines, and toys designed to get girls interested in science and math receive popular acclaim, an alarming trend happens to many girls when they hit adolescence. It’s a phenomenon called “losing their voice,” where even the most audacious girls are likely to become more cautious…
On Tuesday night, Michelle Obama was joined by a handful of people to watch the President’s State of the Union address in person. From astronaut Scott Kelly to Alan Gross, the foreign aid worker who was recently released after five years of imprisonment in Cuba, each of the White House’s guests personifies a story the…
Bill and Melinda Gates have taken on some of the world’s messiest problems, funding projects to improve the design of toilets and condoms and even create urine-powered fuel cells. Now, in their annual letter published today, they’re outlining ambitions to tackle another messy sector: banking. The central thesis of the letter, which lays out goals for the 15-year-old Gates Foundation’s next 15 years,…
How big a hole is the U.S. daily newspaper industry in? We know the toll in newsroom jobs — about 20,000 lost in a little under a decade — and the fact that the industry as a whole took in about $26 billion less in 2014 than it did a decade earlier. We’re used to,…
It’s a measure of how much the economic and cultural landscape has changed in eight years that Apple’s app developers earned as much last year as Hollywood took in from U.S. box offices — $10 billion. There’s more to Hollywood’s revenue stream than the U.S. box office, of course. But as Horace Dediu wrote Thursday,…
Stewart Butterfield had one objective when he set out to raise money for his startup last fall: a billion dollars or nothing. If he couldn’t reach a $1 billion valuation for Slack, his San Francisco business software company, he wouldn’t bother. Slack was hardly starving for cash. It was a rocket ship, with thousands of…
Here’s a basic rule of investing. When everyone is crowded into a trade, run the other way. That’s what we have right now with the U.S. dollar DXY, +1.05% . A crowded trade. It is hard to find anyone who isn’t bullish on the dollar. So it makes sense to bet the other way. You…
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ECB QE launch boosts European debt, stocks and pummels euro By Marius Zaharia LONDON Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:26pm GMT A trader reacts in front of the German DAX Index board at the Frankfurt stock exchange January 22, 2015. Credit: Reuters/Ralph Orlowski LONDON (Reuters) – European government borrowing rates plummeted to record lows, the…
Today Tumblr is announcing the launch of Creatrs, a new program that matches up Tumblrs artists with brands and advertising campaigns. The project has been in development for roughly a year. At a breakfast meeting at Tumblr’s offices in New York, head of creative strategy David Hayes explained the ways in which Tumblr is expanding its…