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Amazon Targets Unprofitable Items, With a Sharper Focus on the Bottom Line (#GotBitcoin?)
Inside The Amazon Fulfillment Center In Fall River, Mass. Amazon.com Inc. has trained people to buy everything from major appliances to daily staples online. Now it is having second thoughts about some of those sales because they don’t make money—and is pushing big brands to change how they use its…
Jailed Women’s Activists Tell Saudi Investigators of Torture (#GotBitcoin?)
Many Of The Detained Women’s Rights Activists Were Leading Champions Of Women’s Right To Drive. Human-rights commission investigating alleged waterboarding, electrocution of activists who led campaign to end driving ban on women. Jailed Women’s Rights Activists Tell Saudi Investigators of Torture. A human-rights commission reporting to Saudi King Salman is…
Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA (#GotBitcoin?)
Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA Unintended consequences have included enlarged rabbit tongues and extra pig vertebrae, as bioethicists warn of hubris. Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA The purported birth last month of the world’s first gene-edited human babies, claimed by a Chinese scientist, spurred a…
New Ways To Profit From Renting Out Single-Family Homes (#GotBitcoin)
Two-and-a-half years into the U.S. housing recovery, the real-estate industry is rolling out new ways for individuals to invest in the property market. New Ways To Profit From Renting Out Single-Family Homes (#GotBitcoin) [caption id="attachment_5881" align="aligncenter" width="569"] New Ways To Profit From Renting Out Single-Family Homes[/caption] Brokers, property managers and…
Boy Scouts of America Considers Bankruptcy Filing Amid Sex-Abuse Lawsuits (#GotBitcoin?)
Nonprofit has hired law firm Sidley Austin for assistance in a possible chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. Boy Scouts of America Considers Bankruptcy Filing Amid Sex-Abuse Lawsuits (#GotBitcoin?) The Boy Scouts of America is considering filing for bankruptcy protection as it faces dwindling membership and escalating legal costs related to lawsuits…
Senior Homeowners Give Reverse Jumbo Mortgages New Life (#GotBitcoin?)
Senior Homeowners Give Reverse Jumbo Mortgages New Life Such real-estate loans have a bad reputation but may be a good fit for older Americans who want to supplement incomes without taking on more debt. It’s time to let the reverse jumbo mortgage out of the doghouse. The loan option got…
Proposal Would Let Postal Service Sell Access To Your Mailbox (#GotBitcoin?)
Government report suggests raising revenue by letting companies make direct deliveries, for a fee. Proposal Would Let Postal Service Sell Access To Your Mailbox (#GotBitcoin?)U.S. Proposal Would Let Postal Service Sell Access To Your Mailbox Looking for ways to raise Postal Service revenue, the Trump administration has proposed a fundamental…
Ultimate Resource On Meng Wanzhou Chief Financial Officer of Huawei
American companies have been crucial in helping Huawei Technologies Co. become the world’s dominant telecommunications player. Ultimate Resource On Meng Wanzhou Chief Financial Officer of Huawei CyberSecurity Newsflash!: (Youtube) Related Article: Chinese Tech Shares Tumble on Spying Concerns (#GotBitcoin?) Meng Wanzhou Chief Financial Officer of Huawei The arrest…
Robot Reality Check: They Create Wealth—And Jobs (#GotBitcoin?)
Robots may be coming for our jobs. But a growing body of evidence suggests that workers have everything to gain from welcoming them. Robot Reality Check: They Create Wealth—And Jobs Economists say automation is the key to next boom, and the U.S. is falling behind. The more robots a country has,…
The World’s Rivers, Canals And Reservoirs Are Turning To Dust
Harvard Quietly Amasses California Vineyards—And The Water Underneath. Making a bet on climate change, university’s $39 billion endowment has been snapping up farmland and the related water rights. The World’s Rivers, Canals And Reservoirs Are Turning To Dust Steve Sinton, a rancher, was baffled when a company he’d never heard…
Amazon, Amid Crackdown on Seller Scams, Fires Employees Over Data Leak (#GotBitcoin?)
Amid crackdown on seller scams, fires employees over data leak. Amazon was also investigating suspected bribes of its employees, The issues were reported in September. Since then, the company has dismissed several workers in the U.S. and India for allegedly inappropriately accessing internal data that was being misused by disreputable…
Clemency For Ross Ulbricht, Serving Double Life For A Website (#GotBitcoin)
[caption id="attachment_5669" align="aligncenter" width="510"] Clemency for Ross Ulbricht, Serving Double Life for a Website[/caption] This is a sentence that shocks the conscience. Clemency For Ross Ulbricht, Serving Double Life For A Website (#GotBitcoin) My son, Ross Ulbricht, is serving a double life sentence plus 40 years, without the possibility of parole,…