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7 Reasons the Best Employees Quit, Even When They Like Their Job
Losing a great employee is a terrible thing. There's the expense of finding, onboarding, and training a replacement. There's the uncertainty of how a new employee will work out. There's the hardship on the rest of your staff until the position can be filled.
When Building Your Team, Don’t Focus on Superstars
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One of the oldest rules about passwords is totally wrong
Your school or workplace may require you to change your password every couple months or so to keep your account safe. It's a widely-implemented security recommendation. Except it's totally wrong. The Federal Trade Commission's chief technologist, Lorrie Cranor, busted...
eBay to Ban Active Content, Your Questions Please
eBay has been warning sellers about its upcoming ban on active content that it announced 4 months ago, and we are getting questions from readers about what it means and how it will impact them.
Gold prices Spike Higher after Bank of England Rate Cut
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Fed Up Merchants File Lawsuits Over EMV Credit Card Chargebacks
When the EMV card liability shift happened in October 2015, the situation seemed to be fairly straightforward: If a merchant wanted to avoid new rules transferring liability for stolen or counterfeit cards to them, they needed to accept the more secure types of...
Are these the 10 qualities you need to be successful?
It’s unfashionable to ascribe success to talent. Hard work is a much more acceptable explanation in a meritocratic society. The truth, of course, is that some measure of both is required to achieve excellence. On its own, Edison’s 99% perspiration would have produced...
10 Reasons Small Companies Fail
No small company wants to go out of business, yet many do. And the younger the company, the greater the likelihood that it will.
Here’s another reminder that Amazon is crushing Microsoft and Google in the cloud
Despite rising competition from Microsoft's Azure and Google's cloud service, Amazon Web Services still reigns supreme in the cloud computing industry.
Gold Sees Modest Gains Despite Slumping Oil Prices
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Are platinum, silver a better investment option than gold post Brexit?
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Google Prohibits Payday Lending Ads, Buys Payday Lender
Google has taken steps recently to control who can, and can't advertise. But after banning payday lenders, Google bought one of their own. Google’s “do no evil” mantra and the company’s sometimes arbitrary actions have been called into question time and again....
Acceptable is the assassin of amazing
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Gold waits for conclusion of FOMC meeting
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Pawnbrokers sue DoD over MLA rule
The National Pawnbrokers Association is suing the Department of Defense over its Military Lending Act rule changes, asserting, among other things, that the DoD violated the Regulatory Flexibility Act by failing to consider the costs of compliance for small...
Going Mobile is More Important and Affordable than Ever
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4 Unusual Ways Successful Companies Keep More of Their Best Customers
If you provide some type of monthly subscription service, such as a product or software as a service, it's vital to increase customer lifetime value and retain more of your best customers. But how do you do it?
Overtime Pay Reform Bill Seeks Three-Year Phase-In of New Rules
A new bill has been proposed that would give small businesses and others a three-year phase-in to handle a transition to new overtime regulations. Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-OR) introduced the Overtime and Reform Enhancement Act, legislation that would stretch out...