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Aaron Kirman Starting your own business is one of the most difficult career paths to navigate, and even the most successful entrepreneur makes mistakes. But to really succeed, you need to take risks and understand you will not be successful right from the get-go. It takes a long time to grow a business — and [...]

If you’ve been out and about in Silicon Valley in the last month or so, chances are you’ve heard of “Alpha Girls,” a new book written by journalist Julian Guthrie about four investors who’ve made a big impact on the world of startup investing. The book recognizes them — Theresia Gouw, MJ Elmore, Sonja Hoel [...]

The 4 biggest mistakes first-time homebuyers make Real estate mogul Barbara Corocran wants young people to get in the game when it comes to home-ownership. “The faster you buy your first home, in my opinion, the better,” she tells CNBC Make It. Because the process is often difficult, confusing and expensive, though, it’s hard to [...]

China’s yuan firmed against the dollar on Friday after the central bank fixed a much stronger midpoint, but the currency is on course to be the worst performing major Asian currency this year and have its biggest annual loss since 1994.   The yuan, which has reached an 8-1/2 year low, was on track to [...]

Another year of tech news is nearly over. It has been an eventful 12 months. Samsung smartphones exploded, GoPro drones dropped out of the air and Pebble smartwatches met an untimely end. Facebook became embroiled in a fake news controversy, Yahoo revealed several mega-breaches, we identified the supposed creator of Bitcoin – who then went [...]

ON the Monday after Diwali, the last transaction a realtor oversaw in Mumbai was the re-sale of a two-bedroom home, with a carpet spread of 700 square feet. The apartment, in a 30-year-old high-rise, went for Rs 3.80 crore, roughly the market price in the south-central Mumbai belt. The price of the asset was calculated [...]

The digitisation amongst enterprises leads to increasing adoption of startup technologies. With 50 percent of enterprise-ready startups, banking, retail, and healthcare are the top adopters of the enterprise technology solutions, according to the Ecosystem Report on Enterprise ReadyStartups 2016 released by Microsoft Accelerator. In the wake of digital transformation across sectors, deep technologies companies are [...]

There is significant money to be made in Europe by investing and lending where local banks cannot, two prominent private fund managers told attendees of a U.S. hedge fund conference on Friday. “The most attractive opportunity in this environment is to step in where the banks are least able to lend,” Stuart Fiertz, co-founder and [...]

Education Minister Hekia Parata has brought a bill to parliament which she says sets clear school objectives for the first time. The Education (Update) Amendment Bill provides for a National Education and Learning Priorities statement (NELP). Source: ONE News “For the first time, early childhood education providers, schools and kura will have clear objectives set,” [...]

Cisco is laying off about 14,000 employees, representing nearly 20 percent of the network equipment maker’s global workforce, technology news site CRN reported, citing sources close to the company. San Jose, California-based Cisco is expected to announce the cuts within the next few weeks, the report said, as the company transition from its hardware roots [...]