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Why Tory Burch, Square and others are giving employees time off to vote (Video, Photos) (Video)
Horror drove Tory Burch to do something to get her employees to the polls. The fashion boss joins hundreds of tech startups embracing time off for employees to vote. 
Tags Jack Dorsey Startups Barack Obama
From Business Journals
Check out the company that makes parachutes for the Airborne Rangers (and pretty much everyone else)
In Asheville, North Carolina you can find Mills Manufacturing, a company with a most important mission — making parachutes for all branches of the U.S. military. 
Tags Bloomberg Manufacturing
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Check out images from Apple's big iPhone unveiling
Apple’s iPhone 7, unveiled today by CEO Tim Cook, is more notable for what it lacks than what it has. As had been rumored, the company has ditched the headphone jack on its latest model in favor of... 
Tags Technology Tim Cook Apple Watch Series
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How Henk Rogers helped make Tetris a household name
Upstart 100 honoree Henk Rogers has done plenty in his career. But the Blue Startups founder's role in bringing Tetris out of the old Soviet Union to the rest of the world may be the most interesting... 
Tags Maya Rogers Media & Marketing Backers As Ackerman
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The Masters: Upstart 100's world beaters
The seven Masters on the Upstart 100 for 2016 could easily fit any of our categories. They're inventors, reinventors, visionaries, backers and creatives all rolled into one. They've all built amazing... 
Tags Entrepreneurs Icahn Enterprises Sean Parker
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How one VC became an 'unstoppable force' in Hollywood, Silicon Valley
With her feet planted firmly in two worlds, tech and entertainment, Upstart 100 honoree Anjula Acharia has become known for effecting positive social change. 
Tags Kathryn Minshew Human Resources Payal Kadakia
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The Visionaries: Upstart 100's big thinkers and passionate doers
Every person on the Upstart 100 has vision. It's part of what makes them stand out, an essential quality to their business approach. For some, though, vision takes on a greater quality as they set out... 
Tags Entrepreneurs John Hanke Tim Ferriss
From Business Journals
How a 'buttoned up' exec found the marijuana industry and got Microsoft to join in
David Dinenberg is helping invent the framework for governments to track the legal marijuana business, and folks are taking note thanks to a partnership he's forged with software giant Microsoft. 
Tags David Dinenberg Upstart Government & Regulations
From Business Journals
Will right wing troll banning do much to clean up Twitter cesspool?
Twitter has banned conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos after the company claimed he encouraged racist attacks on actress Leslie Jones. But can a company built on unfettered speech really clamp... 
Tickers GOP
Tags Twitter GOP Media & Marketing
From Business Journals
Is social media responsible for users live content? (Video)
Live feeds have exploded on mobile devices, especially with the launch of Facebook Live. With a new terror attack in France, experts talk about its impact on society and business. 
Tags Twitter Media & Marketing Jon Klein
From Business Journals
Peeved at PayPal: Advocates of N.C. 'bathroom' law attack payments giant
Entertainers, politicians and corporate figures have slammed a new North Carolina law banning cities from setting up their own anti-discrimination rules to protect gay and transgender people... 
Tags Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Stephen Schwartz Facebook
From Business Journals
Check out the futuristic models for London's self-driving cars
Ok, Silicon Valley's the epicenter for all things cool and high tech, like self-driving cars. We get that... 
Tickers BBC
Tags BBC Technology Bloomberg
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See which business leaders slam North Carolina's anti-LGBT law
Dozens of business leaders representing some of the top tech and entertainment companies, as well as several iconic American brands, have weighed in strongly opposing a North Carolina law passed and... 
Tickers GOP
Tags Andrew Cuomo Roy Cooper Pat McCrory
From Business Journals
Check out hot gadgets and hotshots at Mobile World Congress
There’s no shortage of futuristic gadgets at Mobile World Congress, an annual phone-industry event organized by GSMA Ltd... 
Tags GSMA Electronics Mobile
From Business Journals
Amazon on hiring spree for private-label fashion unit
NEW YORK—New York may be the beating heart of the American fashion scene, but a new competitor could emerge on the opposite coast: Amazon is hiring heavily to staff up its Seattle-based Amazon Fashion... 
Tags Manufacturing Walmart Michael Kors
From Business Journals
The end of the unicorn craze isn't the end of the world for startups
One after another, VC commentators are weighing in with the word that the unicorn party’s over. That’s crystal clear in a few posts from prominent venture capitalists in the past week... 
Tags Funding Brad Feld Startups
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Check out the unicorns that turned into submarines after IPOs
Mark Cuban says founders who won't go public are ruining the economy and Fred Wilson chides Uber's Travis Kalanick for refusing to drive to Wall Street... 
Tags S&P Mark Cuban Banking & Financial Services
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A big week for bitcoin venture capital shows the original blockchain isn’t going anywhere
NEW YORK—This Super Bowl season, bitcoin has felt like the Canadian Football Association to the blockchain’s NFL... 
Tickers BITCOMP USD-BITSTAMP USD-BTCE USD-COINBASE
Tags Canadian Football Association Silk Road Banking & Financial Services
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These are the 20 strongest and most valuable brands in the world
What’s in a brand? Plenty, according to brand valuation and strategy consultancy Brand Finance, which has issued its latest look at the most valuable and powerful brands in the world... 
Tags Technology Public Companies Brand Finance
From Business Journals
At Davos, upstarts rub elbows with establishment players
The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, attracts the usual bunch of bankers, diplomats, and politicians... 
Tags World Economic Forum Meg Whitman Marc Benioff
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Kraken released into U.S. market with bitcoin-for-Wall-Street acquisition
Into a jittery bitcoin ecosystem, veteran bitcoin exchange Kraken, which has long been reluctant to enter the U... 
Tickers BITCOMP USD-BITSTAMP USD-BTCE USD-COINBASE
Tags Bitcoin bitcoin Financial Services
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6 upstarts looking to tackle the NFL (and other sports) concussion problem
The NFL has a big headache, as do high school college and youth football — the danger of head injuries caused by the hard hits to the head, something that's long been part of the game... 
Tags NFL
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Tommy Hilfiger to release a bio that is part memoir, part business book
Tommy Hilfiger, the American fashion designer behind his namesake brand, is coming out with a memoir, “American Dreamer,” to be published in October... 
Tags New York Times Ralph Lauren Snoop Dogg
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Don’t call it a comeback: industry-wide predictions of bitcoin’s resurgence
Coming off bitcoin’s most stable year on record, industry-wide analysts this week predicted a strong year ahead for the cryptocurrency... 
Tickers BITCOMP SEC USD-BITSTAMP USD-BTCE
Tags Cameron Winklevoss Bitcoin Microsoft
From Business Journals
CES 2016: The new reality of virtual reality
Virtual reality's been talked about for several years at the giant Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas... 
Tags Facebook CES 2016 Technology
From Business Journals
Upstarts to watch: The cancer beater and others
Upstarts who caught our eye, as profiled in the latest pages of the Business Journals: Ariella Furman, who went from wedding photographer to serial entrepreneur; Andy Lombard, who has started company... 
Tags Business Journals Technology Andy Lombard
From Business Journals
Bubble or bust? Startup luminaries weigh in
Is tech in a bubble or bust? While many commentators see wildly growing valuations of private companies as a sure sign of a bubble, two of Silicon Valley’s biggest — and most optimistic — stars are... 
Tickers YELP
Tags Sam Altman Yelp Facebook
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How 'the Fat Jew' thinks about how brands should deal with millennials
A daily attempt to sort out the useful from the pointless when it comes to advice. Two weeks ago, I was out with a comedian friend of mine who didn't have anything nice to say about Josh Ostrovsky,... 
Tags Entrepreneurs Graham Winfrey Generation Y/
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Peeple, a Yelp! for humans, slammed before it launches
If there’s no such thing as bad publicity, then Nicole McCullough and Julia Cordray should be thrilled... 
Tags Julia Cordray Nicole McCullough Washington Post
From Business Journals
Marc Andreessen doesn't appear to be losing sleep over tech bubble (Video)
While some investors see dead unicorns in their dreams, famed VC Marc Andreessen remains optimistic—cautiously optimistic anyway—about high-growth tech startups... 
Tickers NEA
Tags Jon Sakoda NEA Emily Chang
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