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Learn about how you can achieve a better work-life balance, and check out the latest news about the world of work, including advancements on ideas like the four-day work week and universal basic income.
Achieving prosperity according to Andrew Carnegie
110 years ago, journalist Napoleon Hill, the author of Think and Grow Rich, set down with steel baron Andrew Carnegie for a series of interviews aimed about the principles of his success. For Carnegie mindset was the critical component: the problem most of us face isn’t that our goals are too Read More...
Auditchain: welcome to real-time accounting and reporting
Shareholders want to know how the business they invested in is doing. These snapshot reports they periodically receive seldom satisfy them. What if accounting became a real-time effort that all stakeholders in a business can continually evaluate? Welcome to Auditchain, a new blockchain-based Read More...
Musician Akon is creating a futuristic city and his own cryptocurrency in Senegal
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Rapper Akon is building a new futuristic 'Crypto city,' in Senegal, which will trade exclusively in his own digital cash currency called AKoin. The US-born singer, who is of Senegalese descent, says his futuristic city will be built on a 2,000-acre land gifted to him by the Read More...
The app that pays rent, tuition, and even taxes with a credit card
Bill pay with benefits. That is how the app Plastiq is described. The app makes it possible for business owners and savvy consumers to use a credit card for virtually any expense that normally requires a Read More...
This app is betting on a future without banks
It looks like any other banking app, but SoFi Money aims to change banking as we know it. With a community based on memberships, SoFi not only offers peer-to-peer payments but also accepts mobile check deposits. The app strives to offer a financial hub that offers loans to members as Read More...
For just $5, you can now start a responsible investment portfolio
People interested in investing typically have two hurdles to clear: First, the learning curve associated with where their money might go and, perhaps more importantly, making sure they can afford it. For millennials, that’s increasingly an ever-more complex value question. Many only want to put Read More...
UK company launches crypto mining electric bicycle
50cycles, a specialist electric bicycle manufacturer, has revealed what it has described as the world’s first range of cryptocurrency mining e-bikes. Toba, the new series of crypto mining bikes, are estimated to generate approximately £20 (approximately $26.5 USD) worth of ‘Loyalcoin’ per Read More...
Goldman Sach's new exchange fund will invest in companies that do ‘good’
Why can’t companies be an instrument for goodness? That’s one of the questions spiritual guru Deepak Chopra posed to billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II in the fall of 2012, which led him to build a foundation based around the idea behind those questions. Until now that foundation merely listed Read More...
John McAfee says blockchain will upend business as we know it in 5 years
Politics, race and religion could all be fair game for dinnertime conversation with John McAfee, but if you’re a blockchain skeptic, you might want to keep your mouth Read More...
This app helps pay off your credit card debt for you
The automatic mobile app Digit is a service that saves money for you once connected to your checking account. Instead of setting a finite amount that is withdrawn on regular schedule, it learns when your bills are due, looks at your spending habits, and then only withdraws cash when it thinks you Read More...