States have laws stipulating that the government becomes the owner of abandoned property after a period of time.
Billions of dollars in unclaimed life insurance benefits are at the center of a legal wrestling match as cash-strapped state governments step up their efforts to make sure insurance companies properly account for the funds.
Business Colonies: Matching talent with pending work projects
Futurist Thomas Frey: The average person that turns 30 years old in the U.S. today has worked 11 different jobs. In just 10 years, the average person who turns 30 will have worked 200-300 different projects.
Continue reading… “Business Colonies: A study of structure, organization, and the evolution of work”
“The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense,
while substance has an affinity for income” – Dee Hock, former CEO of Visa
Futurist Thomas Frey: Disintermediation is a term that sprung to life in the mid-1990s during the formative years of the Internet. Enterprising people learned very quickly that this new communication system could disintermediate, or bypass, many different layers of the business food chain and eliminate entire categories of decision makers both inside and outside of corporations.
Continue reading… “The Headless Organization”
Regulators are asking food makers and restaurant companies to make a choice: make your products healthier or stop advertising them to youngsters.
The Federal Trade Commission has proposed sweeping new guidelines that could push the food industry to overhaul how it advertises cereal, soda pop, snacks, restaurant meals and other foods to children.
Continue reading… “FTC Proposes Stricter Guidelines on Food Ads for Children”
A woman smoking an electronic cigarette.
On Monday, the U.S. government said it plans to regulate electronic cigarettes as tobacco products.
Continue reading… “FDA to Regulate Electronic Cigarettes as Tobacco”
Over 44,000 trade mark files have gone missing in India.
Justice Muralidhar of the Delhi High Court on April 7 asked the government to reform the Trade Mark Office. This was after an investigation revealed that the office had lost 44,404 trade mark registrations without even realizing.
Continue reading… “Growing Concerns Over Problems with the Indian Trade Mark Office”
McCain and Kerry are backing a bill that would require companies to seek a person’s permission to share data about him with outsiders.
Sens. John McCain and John Kerry are circulating proposed legislation to create an “online privacy bill of rights,” according to people familiar with the situation, a sign of bipartisan support for efforts to curb the Internet-tracking industry.
Continue reading… “The Coming Privacy Bill of Rights”
IRS says breastfeeding expenses are tax write-offs.
Breastfeeding is easier on the planet because formula takes energy to produce, transport, and it wastes space in landfills. Not to mention that breastfeeding is the most natural means of giving your baby the best possible start. Michelle Obama even promoted breastfeeding as a means of reducing childhood obesity down the line. And most recently, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced tax breaks for breastfeeding moms.
Continue reading… “IRS Gives Tax Breaks to Breastfeeding Moms”
The most conservative states are typically in the South and West. The least conservative states are in the Eastern part of the country and on the West Coast.
Where do people who call themselves liberals and conservatives live in the United States? A new Gallup Poll shows Mississippi has the largest percentage of people who self-identify as conservatives, at 50.5%, followed by Idaho(48.5%) and Alabama (48.3%).
Continue reading… “Mississippi is Most Conservative State in U.S.”
Online games will be blocked between the hours of 10pm to 8am.
Gamers in Vietnam will soon have to rearrange their schedules if they’re used to playing videogames online at night. The country’s Ministry of Information and Communication is requesting that local internet service providers block online games access between the hours of 10pm and 8am.
Continue reading… “Access to Nighttime Online Games Will Be Blocked in Vietnam”
A coal truck drives through an railroad tressel near downtown Welch, W.Va.
Nestled within America’s once-thriving coal country, 87-year-old Ed Shepard laments a prosperous era gone by, when shoppers lined the streets and government lent a helping hand. Now, here as in one-fourth of all U.S. counties, West Virginia’s graying residents are slowly dying off.
Continue reading… “1 in 4 U.S. Counties Are Dying”
Under 50-year-old laws, local councils currently have a legal obligation to provide comprehensive library services.
Public libraries across the country could be closed to save money, under plans being considered by ministers. More than 450 libraries are facing closure because of public spending cuts. The Government believes that the spread of the internet and other social changes may mean that councils should be free to close libraries.
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