Category: Business

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Analysis, Business, Money Talk

How long will you need to save for a down payment on a home in your city?

The average down payment for a house is 20%.

How long will it take you to save  in order to afford a home? We calculated how many years it takes to save enough for a down payment in the 100 largest U.S. metro areas, factoring in both local average wages from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages and local housing prices based on the median asking price per square foot of homes listed on Trulia.

 

 

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend

Americans turning against ‘stuff’

Millennials are thinking entrepreneurially, viewing themselves as microbusinesses operating in a highly uncertain economic environment.

Millennials aren’t alone as they shift from tangibles (cars and homes) to intangibles (education and access to data). The business sector is moving along the same tangible-to-intangible path as the Millennials, perhaps at an even faster pace. Business spending on nonresidential structures, other than mining-related, is roughly 30% below the 2007 pre-recession highs, while investment in software is up almost 20% over the same period.

 

 

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Business, Food, Robots, Science & Technology News

Restaurant in China staffed entirely by robots

Robotic waiter at the Haohai Robot Restaurant in China.

Haohai Robot Restaurant in Harbin, China is staffed entirely by robots. 18 robots cook, serve, and even entertain diners (there’s a singing robot), all the while addressing them as “Earth Person.” Wait, so these aren’t just robots, they’re alien robots? (Pics)

 

 

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Analysis, Business, Globalism

Why American leaders of global corporations aren’t global leaders

Some 20 years of research by hundreds of experts have found that successful global leaders have great soft skills.

There’s a difference between leading a global company and being a global leader. America has a lot of people who can lead a global company, but not so many who can be global leader.

 

 

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Analysis, Business, Internet, Science & Technology News

The changing face of software development that every organization needs to know about

Cloud- based infrastructures and the rise of open-source technologies have heavily influenced the software development landscape.

Software is created in the midst of fundamental change. Agile, component-based software development are helping coders create applications faster and more efficiently than ever before, but the process has also introduced complex new risks and requirements. Four critical steps can help reduce those risks.

 

 

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Analysis, Business, Education, Science & Technology News

Collegiate entrepreneurs important to sparking innovation out of universities: Study

Business, tech and entrepreneurship types – get to know your graduate and post-doctoral counterparts and encourage them to take advantage of the collegiate environment.

The “University Technology Transfer through Entrepreneurship: Faculty and Students in Spinoffs” study found that graduate and post-doctoral students are critical participants in university commercialization efforts.

 

 

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