Photo by LStockStudio / Shutterstock.com The coronavirus pandemic has turned a lot of homes into home offices, and some people aren’t keen to head back to the old workplace. If that’s a category you fall into, there’s good news: There are all kinds of full-time work-from-home jobs and part-time work-from-home …
Read More »Inspiration from Rachel Hollis, “Focus” Walks, Bob Dylan and More
Once a month (or so), I share a dozen things that have inspired me to greater personal, professional, and financial success in my life. I hope they bring similar success to your life. Please enjoy the archives of earlier collections of inspirational things. Today, I’m going to list a bunch …
Read More »COVID-19: Eligible S’poreans To Get Care & Support Package Payout Of Up To S$600 From June 18
The Care and Support Package was first announced in February to help Singaporeans with household expenses. The Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced today (June 4) that eligible Singaporeans will receive cash payouts of S$ 300 or S$ 600 via PayNow on June 18 as part of the Package. Those who …
Read More »Argo closes $2.6 billion round from VW at a $7.25 billion valuation
Argo AI, the self-driving startup with close ties to automaker Ford, today announced the close of a $ 2.6 billion investment from Volkswagen (VW) first revealed in summer 2019. It values the company at $ 7.25 billion, up slightly from the roughly $ 7 billion at which Argo was valued …
Read More »4 Types of Economic Damage Experts Predict From COVID-19
Blue Planet Studio / Shutterstock.com The coronavirus pandemic has upended lives and livelihoods and will leave long-lasting damage to the U.S. economy, analysts warn. The Brookings Institution think tank predicts that people will travel less, businesses will space workers and customers apart, restaurants will serve fewer customers at once and …
Read More »NASA resumes human spaceflight from U.S. soil with SpaceX launch
(Reuters) — SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched two Americans into orbit from Florida on Saturday in a landmark mission marking the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center …
Read More »For work from home, technology’s convenience matters more than its power
Over the years I’ve worked as a technology journalist, I’ve been lucky enough to watch multiple product categories evolve from their earliest days to maturity and sometimes sunsetting — a cyclical process that is rarely identical between different types of products, but often has similarities from category to category. One …
Read More »5 Benefits Local Entrepreneurs Can Get From Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba is one of the world’s biggest e-commerce companies providing solutions and products that are easily accessible to the masses. Alibaba Cloud is the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, which raked in a revenue of USD3.68 billion in 2019 alone—an 84% increase from 2018. Due to COVID-19, they’re offering …
Read More »How to Create Fun, Inexpensive Challenges From Your Hobbies
Last year, I issued myself a challenge to read 52 challenging books I already owned. I made up the list in advance and made it my goal over the course of that year to read every one of them. I read Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty, Debt: …
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