Critics get it wrong, but they’re right to be wary about Dan Gilbert’s new smartphone app for easy mortgage approval
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Failing diplomacy and humor, an offending worker may have to be put on notice to fall in line with behavioral policies
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Two men and their wives are working to transform organic vineyard, winery into an agri-tourism destination
Read More With tax fraud on the rise, experts warn consumers to be wary
With tax season barely underway, state tax officials have already flagged several dozen Baltimore-area tax preparers for “suspicious” returns, while consumer groups are urging filers to watch out for fraud, errors and needless fees.
With identity theft and false returns on the rise in Maryland and…
Can Cynthia Rowley Make Kefir Sexy?
Why the fashion designer created new labels for Lifeway Foods’s fermented milk drink to coincide with her new line of athletic wear.
Sometimes good ideas happen not in the boardroom, but at the dinner table. Last summer, Julie Smolyansky, the CEO of kefir company Lifeway Foods, attended a dinner party with fashion designer Cynthia Rowley. During conversation, Rowley mentioned she was preparing to launch a new line of fashionable athletic wear, and Smolyansky’s ears perked up.
St. Vincent Designed A Sleek New Guitar To Fit Women’s Bodies
“There is room for a breast. Or two.”
Annie Clark, a.k.a. the music star St. Vincent, has designed her own guitar, in collaboration with the Ernie Ball music company. And unlike most guitars, this one is designed to fit a woman’s body. “I wanted to design a tool that would be ergonomic, lightweight, and sleek,” Clark wrote on Instagram. “There is room for a breast. Or two.”
AT&T Joins Verizon In Testing 5G Wireless This Year
Company will use early version of the service as broadband replacement.
AT&T is expected to officially announce that it will begin testing a next-generation 5G wireless network this year, reports Re/code. The telecoms provider will join Verizon, which is already actively working on its 5G network. Though 5G service won’t be offered to smartphone users until the end of this decade, each company—and dozens like them in countries around the world—are in a race to be the first to offer 4G’s successor.
Uber Offers To Pay $28.5M Fine To Customers For Misleading “Safety” Statements
Unfortunately, your cut will be less than a dollar.
Uber has offered to pay $28.5 million to settle two class action lawsuits brought against the company that alleges the ride-sharing company misled customers over safety statements it made, reports The Verge. If approved by the judge presiding over the case, the settlement will be divided among 25 million Uber passengers in the United States who used the service from January 1, 2013, to January 31, 2016. That means the average Uber customer’s take will be 87 cents, which would be refunded to their credit cards or added as a credit to their Uber accounts.
Check Out This Long-Lost Video of Steve Jobs Unveiling NeXT
Footage was thought lost until researchers discovered it while making the “Steve Jobs” film.
Steve Jobs is remembered for accomplishing so many things: the creation of the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, and Apple itself. Yet the man who has an almost mythical stature in the tech industry had his fair share of failures, too—the most obvious of which was NeXT, the company he founded after being forced out of Apple in 1985.
