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Echo Show 2 review
With the original Echo Show, Amazon added a new dimension to the smart speaker. To critics, the device was little more than a station tablet. For Amazon, however, the product unlocked a new vertical in the rapidly expanding category. The day to usefulness wasn’t always clear, but the potential certainly was, as Amazon and the […]
When Should You Upgrade Your Visual Design Gear?
Worried about which pieces of design equipment you should upgrade and which are fine as-is? We’ve got you covered with this guide. A while back, we gave you a list of the best tools for a designer. It not only covered electronics but also sketchpads and non-design software — and even a backpack. Here, we’ll […]
Time Hopping: A Guide To The Weird World of Jumping Hours
Of the many complications on the market today, there’s still something oddly fascinating about a jumping hours display. This digital hour display makes checking the time at a cursory glance even more effortless than with a 3-hand watch, and on the other the clever mechanism is a bit of a throwback to early 20th century […]
Opportunity Zones and shared prosperity: Emerging principles from Cleveland
By Rachel Barker, Alan Berube Since their enactment in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Opportunity Zones have attracted significant interest as a potential major source of untapped capital to revitalize America’s struggling neighborhoods and communities. A growing number of local leaders are eager to turn this buzz into investment that delivers economically inclusive […]
Baijiu 101 for Bartenders
Ming River Inc.’s chief marketing officer, Simon Dang, and educational director, Derek Sandhaus, sat down with Chilled for a Q&A about baijiu. Baijiu is a very popular spirit globally, but may be misunderstood here in the states. What do bartenders need to know about baijiu? Baijiu (pronounced “bye-j’yo”) means “white spirits” in Mandarin. It’s a […]
IL&FS fallout brings back memories of Satyam carnage
MUMBAI: Nearly a decade ago, Ramalinga Raju, then chairman of Satyam Computer Services confessed to a fraud that shook India’s corporate world and its sunrise IT services industry.The IT sector was bracing for the recession in the US, its largest market, that was triggered by the financial crisis. Satyam was India’s fourth- largest IT services […]
Private Equity is all about growth now, not cost-cutting: Stephen Pagliuca
Stephen Pagliuca, co-chairman of Bain Capital, feels its India private equity business has reached an inflection point, such as the $1-billion-plus investment in Axis Bank. During his recent trip to mark the fund’s tenth anniversary in India, Pagliuca spoke to ET’s Arijit Barman about his outlook for India and the world. His mantra — align […]
Real Time Economics: How Long Can the U.S. Economic Expansion Last? ‘Effectively Indefinitely.’
This is the web version of the WSJ’s newsletter on the economy. You can sign up for daily delivery here. Good morning. Today we look at extraordinary U.S. economic growth, rising bond yields, collateral damage in emerging markets, why U.S. worker wages might take a step back in September, and the continuing demise of the shopping mall. […]
UPDATE! Tyra Banks Sells Her Pacific Palisades Home For $4M
Tyra Banks has a lot to “smize” about. The America’s Next Top Model host and entrepreneur just sold her four-bed, five-bath home in the Pacific Palisades for $4 million. She bought the property back in 2014 for $3.295 million, and listed it at $4.25 million back in May. And if you’re feeling a case of deja […]