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“To be in retail now, you need to be unique; you need to offer something you can’t get online. And typically private equity firms tend to cut back,” Josh Kosman, author of The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Will Cause the Next Great Credit Crisis, told BuzzFeed News. “They’re not improving their stores and…
Earlier in the week, I was working with somebody on getting Dropbox loaded onto her machine. For some reason, Dropbox would not install after you hit the “Install” link. Instead, we kept receiving a blank screen. So I went to Google to see if it could direct me to the answer to our problem and…
Lately I’ve been working on this reconciliation problem where I want the spreadsheet to highlight for me all potential problems with the data. A lot of the reconciliation deals with employee ids, social security numbers, dates and deductions. I want the spreadsheet to do the work for me since I actually do not have the…
It’s time to assess the impact of that tax cut that was heralded at the end of last year. The Republicans predicted that the tax cut would generate growth and trickle down to improve the living standards of the general population via renewed investments. They even said everybody would see the tax cuts in their…
I haven’t done any “just-for-the-fun-of-it” reading in quite a while, so two weeks ago I finished a fun action thriller book. The book was called The Four Legendary Kingdoms by Matthew Reilly and it was a fun read. It was about an ex (?) military guy kidnapped to compete in a “to the death” series…
“When you read parts of the applications, it’s really clear that this is spyware and a surveillance system meant to serve you up to advertisers,” says Jamie Court, the president of Consumer Watchdog, “The companies”, Mr. Court added, are “basically going to be finding out what our home life is like in qualitative ways.” Sapna…