American adults who have a job (or are looking for a job) has fallen to its lowest point since 1979, hovering around 63 percent. Thirty-seven percent of working-age Americans aren’t working. But, what are they doing? Bloomberg Businessweek gives us a snapshot of 2013 with this amazing infographic above.
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We totally get why women are living long, happy lives in Hawaii.
It should not be a surprise to anyone that you’re less likely to be depressed there than anywhere else in America when you live in a tropical island paradise like Hawaii.
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The fewer workers, the less growth produced.
In the United States millions of people have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth.
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The PC industry is dying, so let’s move on.
The market-research firm, Gartner, has finally come out and said it: The PC market is dying. Except it hasn’t said that, quite. But it is, and saying so is really important.
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Julian Assange’s website WikiLeaks set a ‘new normal’ for investigative journalism in the mainstream press.
You may be sweating a little bit this week if you are a rooked corporate mogul, property tycoon or prominent politician. Your millions of secret tax-evading dollars are safe in offshore accounts for the moment. But now, a lot more people know exactly where your money is and just how much you’ve been hiding.
Continue reading… “Wikiworld – Is this the future of investigative journalism?”
Not all mobile devices are equal when it comes to access.
Smartphones and tablets have revolutionized how consumers access media content. But move away from the big picture and there are essential details to consider, such as when consumers access your content.
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It’s impossible to set the “right ticket prices” months in advance of an individual ballgame.
On Opening Days across the country organists are again playing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” at the baseball stadiums. But there is another game being played in box office backrooms. Seventeen out of the 30 Major League teams were using some form of dynamic pricing last year. dynamic pricing is the concept of raising and lowering prices in accordance with demand — to price ballpark tickets. This year, the practice seems likely to grow.
Continue reading… “Pricing baseball seats like airline tickets”
During the post-recession years, each generation of Americans have suffered in its own way. The only age group that has managed to go the past year without reducing its unemployment rate is the 20-to-24-year olds.
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The smartphone-enabled checkup will actually improve doctor-patient relationships.
Can you imagine a comprehensive, clinically relevant well-patient checkup using only smartphone-based devices? The data obtained during the checkup is immediately readable and fully uploadable to an electronic health record. The patient understands – and even participates – in the interaction far beyond faking a cough and gulping a deep breath.
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Flurry Analytics began measuring mobile usage and helping developers sell ads when the iPhone was barely a year old and Apple had not yet launched the App Store.
Almost half of young women live with a guy without being married.
According to a government survey released this week, nearly half of young women say the first time they lived with a guy, they weren’t married.
Continue reading… “More couples in the U.S. living together instead of marrying”
When it comes to mobile display ads, Facebook has already outstripped Google.
Facebook is expected to rake in three out of ten dollars spent on mobile ads in the U.S. this year, says marketing research firm eMarketer.
Continue reading… “30% of all mobile ad dollars will go to Facebook in 2013”
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