- The Best Legal Services Overview
Legal services and online platforms make it easier and more affordable to access legal help. Here's a breakdown of key features, service providers, and who benefits most:
Key Features to Consider When Choosing Legal S…
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- Big business is big time tax avoider: Airbnb is the latest to pay as little tax as possible
Yet another story of a big business doing good business but paying very less taxes. We shouldn't be surprised to hear te latest news, this time, about Airbnb paying less than £200,000 in UK corporation tax last year desp…
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- All modern industrial supply chains rely on labor exploitation to succeed
Smartphones, iPhones, jeans...and now laptops. A newspaper writes about a labor watchdog saying that the world’s biggest laptop brands, HP and Acer among them, relying on Chinese student labourers as young as 16 to work …
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- The 25 Most Important Business & Career Skills All Smart People Should Know
1. Business Management: Basically, the art of getting people to do things
2. Marketing: Because the purpose of a business is to find a customer, thus, marketing
3. Selling: Knowing how to sell things to peopl…
Topic: Books and Literature, Remarkable, Careerskills, Education, Businessskills | Read more
- How to be remarkable #130: Tell honest stories (to fix your company, startup, yourself and your job)
The Bizarro Storytelling Exercise gets its name from Bizarro, the comic book villain, and it is about using honesty to get a clear idea about your situation. While storytelling has long being championed as a problem-solv…
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- Simple Things #1: The One Page Business Course
This text poster is the first in the series of Simple Things series - The One-Page Business/MBA Course.
If you liked this, please check out these great collections of useful advice:
1. The Gist: 1000+ Big Ideas F…
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- Journalists hall of infamy: People who got caught copying, fabricating…
So, Mike Daisey might have fabricated some parts of Apple/Foxconn awful factories in China, that doesn’t deny the truth about the awful working conditions under which your shiny, over-priced, status-gizmos are made, and …
Topic: List, Business, Media, Journalism, Controversey, Simpleguide, Scandal | Read more
- Why the friction of paper money defined our lives (and how bad a cashless future will be)
While the poor (and salaried) like the rise of electronic payments - the direct bank-to-bank money transfers - salary or subsidy, it doesn\'t matter, as long as you get the money fast and secure.
But, consider the f…
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- Yes, waitressing is a real job: Wall Street isn't a real job
Whatever prejudice you might subscribe to, any job that involves you serving other people's needs is a job. Damn all old stereotypes, waitressing is a job. It might be something you would do all your life - but, it is …
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- Stories about Goldman Sachs everyone must read
By now, all have read bout Greg Smith, who wote an op-ed in the New York Times about why he was qutting his job as a director with Goldman Sachs, which he calls a 'morally bankrupt' Wall Street bank. You will have read S…
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- Time to rethink unpaid internships: Companies benefit without paying, you do only menial jobs
We will see more interns suing companies they worked for - the pay is nothing or next to nothing. And, the work is far from important career-enhancing work, it is mostly menial work that no one else wants to do. USA Toda…
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- Ultimately, Microsoft will be the ultimate Microsoft killer
Ultimately, Microsoft's inability to do anything new (xbox and Kinect don't count) in the internet age, will be its downfall. Whatever its cash status, how long can Microsoft continue to copy other companies and try to p…
Topic: Business, Microsoft, Windows | Read more
- The age of recycled diamonds: There are $1 trillion worth of "used diamonds" in America alone
The story of "recycled diamonds" in America and how it might the hurt the global industry (as it is, high-quality rough diamonds have become more difficult to find, and more expensive to mine)is something that perhaps Ya…
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- The 'sell anything' age: A list of things you can buy on this planet
In the 'sell anything' age, you can buy and sell anything. People will get rich by selling all kinds of things. Morality doesn't matter. A few samplings from how our society is getting 'debased' by the unrelenting lure o…
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- Annals of just desserts: Court strips Copyright troll Righthaven of copyrights, to be sold to pay off its victims
Righthaven became infamous as a copyright troll that went after hapless bloggers for quoting newspaper articles and suing them for damages in court. As fate would have it, the defendant took on Righthaven and look how th…
Topic: Internet and Websites, Business, Legal | Read more
- Annals of social media policies gone bad: Honda pays bloggers to write about Civic and other cars
Evgeny Morozov was right all along. The internet is increasingly used more and more by big business and governments to further their interests. Big businesses paying people to write positive things about their products i…
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- How to change the world, idea #1: Seize properties of a major media house, starting with Murdock holdings
This post is about an idea for a French Revolution for the media industry in the 21st century. Left to their own devices, and considering how deeply entrencehd their reach is inside the system, media houses like Rupert M…
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- What America Sells To The World: Ironically, educational and financial services are among top exports
In 2011, America sold $2.1 trillion worth of goods and services to the world. Among the top sellers in the services segment were education and financial services. Which is ironic, considering the increasing scrutiny bein…
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- A simple guide to the KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) industry
Here are five questions people ask most about the KPO (knowledge Process Outsourcing) industry:
1. What is KPO?
KPO is the second wave of outsourcing. First, you had the wave of BPO (Business process Outsourcing) compa…
Topic: Business, Handbook, Kpo, Simpleguide, Outsourcing, Career | Read more
- How to handle deadlines without losing your sanity
Not all deadlines are detrimental to your mental and physical health. Deadlines can be good too, you know. HowYou ask. There are a ways to ensure you get the job done and don't lose your mind during this while:
Set effe…
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