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Employees at Pinterest, which had its initial public offering last week, are each reported to have an average of $700,000 in company stock. Pinterest, an image-sharing site, has 1800 employees. After its IPO it closed at $24.40, up 28 percent from its $19 pricing, taking these staff to within a whisker of being millionaires. The…
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UPS, in partnership with the drone technology company Matternet, operates a daily drone delivery of medical supplies in WakeMed’s campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. The drone delivery cut the transport time of crucial medical samples from about half an hour to just over three minutes. That can be challenging when the material being moved is…
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I have a fabulous leather collectable Mickey Mouse Wild One jacket and every time I wear it I get offers to buy it. At a studio party the other day I was offered $500 for it. The thing is that I only paid $80.00 for it at a street market. That’s the great thing about…
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I have a great guest on my global radio show today at 5pm Los Angeles time. Gerri Knilans from Trade Press Services. Great information for any business operating B2B. I’m on a flight today to Australia for a week, mostly business meetings unfortunately. LEmily Meade who plays a porn star on HBO’s “The Deuce,” was about to film…
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I hope that all our readers, and non readers for that matter, had a wonderful Easter and Passover. Now it is back to work. For the first time, scientists in Israel have created a working, vascularized engineered heart using human cells by printing it in 3D. The advancement, which could change medicine forever, was unveiled this…