Amazon reported an unexpected third-quarter profit of $406 million.
As Amazon dukes it out with the New York Times over whether Amazon is or is not a nice place to work, the tech company reported surprising third-quarter profits.
Jay Z’s Right-Hand Man On The Changing Role Of Fathers In Hip-Hop
The cofounder of Roc Nation and father of two has learned a lot about work-life balance.
As Jay Z’s cofounder at the entertainment conglomerate Roc Nation, TyTy Smith builds musical empires for little acts you may have heard of like Rihanna and J Cole. But he’s known to hip-hop fans as the guy from Brooklyn’s Marcy Projects who Jigga Man has shouted out no fewer than nine times since 1996. Apparently, the man likes Mai Tais.
How To Cure The Sunday-Night Blues
If you are already dreading the end of the weekend, consider these seven ways to make Sunday night the best night of the week.
The weekend is winding down, and you’re starting to feel a little blue. Whether it’s mild sadness or full-blown anxiety, you might have a case of the Sunday-night blues.
How Big Data Might Change The Way You Find A Job
CareerLabs uses big data to explore all aspects of a company, from maternity leave to morale, growth, and financial health.
Some things in the work landscape are slow to change. So it is with job hunting. People are forced to search for job postings using the same filters such as zip codes and titles that they were 20 years ago, argues Anthony Van Horne, founder of the site CareerLabs. The platform, designed for jobseekers to get inside information on the companies they’re applying to, is now officially launching after six months of live testing with stealth beta tests.
5 Great Free Apps To Help You Sell Anything
Collaborate, hunt down leads, track email, and more.
Your ability to sell stuff is what will ultimately keep your business afloat. So it’s time to lace up your wingtips, pound the pavement, and seal some deals.
“The New Yorker” Editor David Remnick Has A New Gig: Radio Host
David Remnick on his approach for “The New Yorker Radio Hour,” launching Saturday, and the importance of sitzfleisch.
You’ve heard of The New Yorker? It’s a great magazine.
The Blurring of Art, Machines, And Vodka At Industry City Distillery
“We make booze to pay for art and science,” says the cofounder of the New York-based vodka maker.
Industry City Distillery has been a beautiful accident from the start. And much of it still doesn’t make sense four years after the first batch was created—until you taste what’s in the bottle.
From Punk Rock Anarchist To CEO
The story of Deeplocal’s Nathan Martin—both versions of him.
How does one go from a punk-rock, bring-down-the-establishment social anarchist to a CEO working with brands like Nike and Google? That’s the story of Nathan Martin, the founder of Deeplocal, a Pittsburgh-based creative agency that’s produced a host of culture-jamming branding events for major corporations.
Lupe Fiasco And A Waze Exec Make A Million-Dollar Bet On Inner-City Innovators
Could the next $100 million business come from a marginalized neighborhood? Waze’s Di-Ann Eisnor and rapper Lupe Fiasco are sure of it.
It was in May 2014 that Di-Ann Eisnor met Lupe Fiasco. Eisnor is an executive at Google’s Waze, an angel investor, and a “neogeographer,” while Fiasco is a Grammy Award-winning rapper; the two were united as Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute. “We hit it off,” recalls Fiasco. Soon, they got to speaking about shared concerns: inequality in America, ghettoized neighborhoods, and the lack of diversity in the innovation economy.
This Algorithm Is Better At Predicting Human Behavior Than Humans Are
You’re so predictable.
Analyzing big data sets in order to forecast trends or predict customer behavior usually relies on both computers and humans. Computer algorithms are advanced enough to rapidly comb through numbers and find useful patterns, and humans are still necessary for setting the parameters and analyzing the results. But an algorithm created by two MIT researchers suggest we could take out the human factor all together.
