China has used more concrete from 2011 to 2013 than the United States in the entire 20th century, 6.6 gigatons vs. 4.5 giatons, according to the USGS cement statistics. Continue reading… “China has used more concrete in 3 years than the US did in 100 years”
One huge political issues in recent years has been that Wall Street has done better than Main Street. the Bank for International Settlements has a new study that shows exactly why rapid finance sector growth is bad for the rest of the economy. Continue reading… “Warning: rapid finance sector growth is bad for the economy”
It used to be that if you graduated from college with no marketable skills but dreams of a safe career path, you went to law school. For three years and about $150,000. Now people skip law school and go to a computer coding bootcamp. For just three months and $15,000 or less.
NOTE: Anyone interested in learning to code, DaVinci Coders offers multiple courses designed to get you into the rapidly growing technology industry. For more info please visit davincicoders.com.
Continue reading… “Can coding bootcamps save the day?”
The global stock market had a very different look 145 years ago than it does today. Continue reading… “Global stocks comparison, 1899 and 2014”
WorldRemit a London-based money transfer startup, has announced a new $100 million funding round, with a reported valuation of more than $500 million. Silicon Valley venture capital firm TCV, which has previously invested in everyone from Facebook to Spotify and Netflix, will lead this round. Continue reading… “Silicon Valley investors betting against banks”
According to the newest data from China Mobile, the company now has just over 100 million 4G subscribers. This comes only 14 months after the nation’s top telco switched on China’s first 4G network. Continue reading… “China Mobile zero to 100M 4G subscribers in 14 months”
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“We’re down to the wire here!” a young woman in flowing floral slacks and a crop top barks in the direction of a sound guy, her voice rising urgently. “The speakers aren’t working.” Continue reading… “Warby Parker sees the future of retail”
The FAA’s long-awaited rules for flying small drones have arrived. Up until today it was illegal to fly drones for commercial purposes unless you had a specific a testing exemption from the FAA.
Continue reading… “FAA takes huge step towards legalizing commercial drone flights”
A question that social scientists and economists have long puzzled over, how corruption arises in different cultures and why it is more prevalent in some countries than others. But finding correlations between corruption and other measures of economic or social activity has always been difficult. Continue reading… “Data mining shows global link between wealth and corruption”
By Nicholas Carlson, Business Insider
“In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a lot with bitcoin.” —Wences Casares
Serial entrepreneur Wences Casares created Argentina’s first internet provider and later sold his online brokerage firm to Banco Santander for $750 million in 2000. He was 25 years old. Continue reading… “Why bitcoin can be bigger than the Internet”
Despite Tesla not shipping nearly as many cars this quarter as they had projected, CEO Elon Musk remained upbeat during last week’s earnings call as he let some details slip about a brand new product. Musk says that the company is working on a consumer battery back for the home. Continue reading… “Elon Musk and Tesla to unveil a new battery to power your home”
Photo-sharing app Instagram has grown from internet infant to social media star in its 5 year existence. Instagram has surpassed Twitter in popularity among U.S. adults, according to new data from the Pew Research Center. Continue reading… “14 extraordinary Instagram stats”
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