Good news for those having numerous phone conversations with people abroad. The European Commission insists on eliminating the roaming price lists beginning with June 2017. The European Commission insisted Wednesday that it didn't give up on the promise of putting an end to the roaming price lists, despite the fact that last days it revealed a suggestion that would limit the … [Read more...]
Amazon Will Be Increasing Private Label Products
Online retail giant Amazon is planning to dramatically increase the private-label products it will be offering to consumers in the next few weeks, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. … [Read more...]
Apple Invests $1 Billion in Chinese Ride-sharing Company Didi Chuxing
Is an iCar showing up on our crystal balls? It sure looks like it after it was announced on Thursday that Apple has invested $1 billion in China's biggest ride-sharing company Didi Chuxing. According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, the strategic move was made to help the company better understand the Chinese market, the second largest after the U.S. … [Read more...]
7 Ways to Eliminate Annoying Meetings
Unproductive meetings have reached epidemic status in America. Bain & Company, using analytics tools from VoloMetrix, examined the time budgeting of several large corporations. The research found that big U.S. companies are wasting millions of dollars on unproductive hours. For one business in the study, management meetings "ate up" about 300,000 hours, or the equivalent of … [Read more...]
Proper Profile on LinkedIn Yields 40 Times More Opportunities
If you only have a LinkedIn profile because you’re supposed to have one, get ready to have your world turned upside down. OK, maybe not turned upside down, but there’s a whole lot more to the platform than uploading your resume and forgetting about it. You can totally rock the professional world if you set your profile up the right way. … [Read more...]
Respect in the Workplace – Managers, Do You Deserve It?
Many companies are evolving to become more trustworthy, transparent, ethical, collaborative and mindful of their employees' needs. This won't work however if the leaders are not as diligent to earn respect from their employees or colleagues. Just because you are the manager, that doesn’t mean you've earned respect. Too many leaders think their titles grant them authority, and … [Read more...]
Music Streaming On the Rise, Artist Revenue, Not So Much
The Recording Industry Association of America has released its annual report on the state of the music industry — and, well, things could be worse. You want the good news first? Overall, the industry is up almost 1 percent (.9 percent at retail, .8 percent at wholesale). … [Read more...]
Protestor Crashes Volkswagen’s Media Presentation … Oops
A Volkswagen executive presented in front of an audience at the Geneva International Motor Show in Switzerland on Tuesday when a coveralls-clad protester abruptly interrupted, getting on stage to make fake repairs to a VW car on display. … [Read more...]