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How did the work-life balance get so awful in America?

The most important reason why we rank so poorly is the increase in single mothers who face an extraordinary burden relative to their overseas counterparts.

If you listen to the leaders in the United States this is the greatest country in the history of everything.  But, if you read international surveys the U.S. is a disgrace among developed countries. The health care system is famously expensive and inaccessible. The education system is broken. And the income inequality, it’s just famous.

 

 

 

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Analysis, Economy, Globalism, Latest Trend, Money Talk

The 0.6% world: Who owns what of the $223 trillion in gobal wealth

The rich got richer, and the poor kept on getting poorer.

In 2010, Zero Hedge started an annual series looking at the (re)distribution in the wealth of nations and social classes. What they found then (and what the media keeps rediscovering year after year to its great surprise) is that as a result of global central bank policy, the rich got richer, and the poor kept on getting poorer, even though as they predicted the global political powers would, at least superficially, seek to enforce policies that aimed to reverse this wealth redistribution from the poor to the rich (a doomed policy as the world’s legislative powers are largely in the lobby pocket of the world’s wealthiest who needless to say are less then willing to enact laws that reduce their wealth and leverage).

 

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Business, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Android is becoming the operating system for the Internet of Things

Android is everywhere.

The work space of Ken Oyadomari at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., looks like a triage tent for smartphones. Dozens of disassembled devices parts are strewn on workbenches. A small team of young engineers picks through the electronic carnage, carefully extracting playing card-size motherboards—the microprocessing heart of most computers—that will be repurposed as the brains of spacecraft no bigger than a softball. Satellites usually cost millions of dollars to build and launch. The price of Oyadomari’s nanosats, as they’ve become known, is around $15,000 and dropping. He expects them to be affordable for high school science classes, individual hobbyists, or anyone who wants to perform science experiments in space.

 

 

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Analysis, Business, Entertainment, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Emerging trends inside iTunes


iTunes

Asymco analyst Horace Dediu has a very smart point regarding the real impact of shifting media consumption patterns on legacy gatekeepers.He estimates that iTunes’ average revenue per user (ARPU) has fallen from over $100 in the fourth quarter of 2007 to about $39 by the fourth quarter of 2012. Over that same time, the number of total iTunes accounts has roughly doubled, from around 250 million to roughly 500 million.

 

 

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10 tech-enabled business trends for the decade ahead

The technology-enabled business trends will not only be a boon for consumers but also stimulate growth.

McKinsey & Company described ten information technology three years ago that enabled business trends that were profoundly altering the business landscape. Since then, the pace of technology change, innovation, and business adoption has been stunning. Consider that the world’s stock of data is now doubling every 20 months; the number of Internet-connected devices has reached 12 billion; and payments by mobile phone are hurtling toward the $1 trillion mark.

 

 

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Top 12 disruptive technologies that are transforming the world

Where will the jobs be, and how can companies carve out a competitive advantage in the global economy?

Exactly what technologies and trends will change our lives are hard to predict. Few people understood just how powerful the Internet would be, dismantling entire industries and creating millions of jobs.

 

 

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Analysis, Education, Science & Technology News

Why high schools should start thinking of computer programming as a fundamental skill

Coding is just a fundamental tool, the same way writing in English and algebra are.

There’s a good chance that your kid’s classroom will be remodeled by the tech industry. After years of more or less resisting the pull of the web, both college and K-12 seem ripe to be remade for the digital age. There’s political buy-in. There’s investor buy-in. There’s a pervasive sense that it’s just time.

 

 

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Top 10 global technology trends for the energy and utility markets in 2013

Global energy an utilities sectors faces significant challenges from ongoing environmental sensitivity.

Gartner, Inc. has released a new report that identifies the top ten technology trends affecting the global energy and utility markets in 2013, as the industry faces significant challenges from ongoing environmental sensitivity, changing policymaker attitudes and consumer expectations.

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend

eBooks account for nearly 23% of all U.S. publishing revenue

Americans enjoy diving into a good book, but more and more of them prefer the digital version.

Ebook sales made up 22.5 percent of the publishing industry’s net revenue last year, according to a new survey from the Association of American Publishers. That’s up from just 0.05 percent 10 years prior, when the AAP first began keeping track of ebook sales, and up from 16.98 percent in 2011. The categories that saw the biggest increase in ebook revenues included adult fiction, adult nonfiction, and religious books. Even more encouraging, the overall net revenue for the US publishing industry was $7.1 billion, up 6.2 percent from 2011.

 

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