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Heaven or hell? Never miss a call again

We live in a modern world filled with awe-inspiring technological innovations... so why is it so difficult to collect texts and phone calls across multiple devices? Gregg Fienberg, executive producer...

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By 2020, there will be 10 web-connected devices per human

Michael Dell, the 49-year old founder and CEO of the world's No. 3 computer maker, isn't shy about the corporate battle he waged against activist investors to wrest control of his company back into...

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Are you a giver or a taker?

Are you the type of person that is more likely to give help to a colleague in need? Or are you more likely to take all you can get from everyone you work with? Wharton professor Adam Grant explores in...

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Get smarter in just 90 minutes a week

"Get smarter in just 90 minutes a week!"  That sounds like the subject line of a piece of spam email pushing dubious pills. That said, I am offering (completely free of charge) a regimen that is...

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How I got smarter this week (in just 105 minutes)

I am on a diet to make me smarter. A media diet. I'm trying to add at least one moment of depth per week to a movie habit that tends to play in the shallow end of the pool. This week my diet included...

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The British have solved unemployment, once and for all

I am anchoring Marketplace Morning Report from London this week. While on the road, I am scouting for big ideas and I may have found a doozy. Some iconoclastic economic thinkers just over the river in...

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This is your brain on a phone

There is word that Britain's National Health Service has just commissioned a big study to see what mobile phones are doing — if anything — to our kids. This is one of the biggest stories I'v seen so...

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A question of numbers and geography

Let me come right out and say it: I am a trafficker in Gross Domestic Product data and I'm not proud. With every GDP estimate, first and second revisions of this key indicator of the state of the U.S....

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Untethering the Road Warrior

Saturday afternoon, I pedaled my way up a last nasty hill and made for the finish line in Los Angeles of this year's AIDS Lifecycle bike ride. Me and 2,200 other cyclists. My final odometer reading...

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Don’t just get mad, decode the system

Here is the latest menu item on my "Get Smarter in 90 Minutes A Week" media diet: The other night I watched How to Survive a Plague, a film about ACT UP and its activism to fight AIDS. I am not sure...

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Remembering a Rockefeller and his gift of time

  I was deeply saddened in recent days to learn that the great-grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller had died. Richard Rockefeller, a physician who practiced for nearly two decades in Portland,...

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Allan Sloan is angry about the flight of corporations

When Bank of America merged with NationsBank and moved out of its headquarters in San Francisco after 94 years to decamp to North Carolina, people said that's just business. When Boeing announced it...

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Apple trademarks store layout, genius idea dries up

Another one of my genius ideas has just bitten the dust.    A headline hit the news wires that that Apple can have a trademark on the layout of its stores. Obviously, Apple has a trademark on the...

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Jobs, like water, always seem to run downhill

Did you hear the one about the American furniture factory that was able keep jobs in America despite intense competition from low-wage China? I was just talking to newspaper reporter Beth Macy about...

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We really are living in the (medical) future

We live in the future. That's not my phrase; it is my daughter Madeleine's invention. True, the monorails remain few and far between, but every once in a while I get a reminder that some of what was...

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Getting my Fortune read

A buddy of mine in California somehow stumbled across a vintage piece of business history: a copy of Fortune magazine from 1948. A piece about Business and Ethics stood out for him, and instead of...

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The Tale of the City Service Station

Before there was Exxon, there was ESSO. Before there was CITGO, there were Cities Service stations. That brand is long gone, but this summer marks the return of something you might call “City...

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The Marketplace Inflation Calculator

There is a famous British comedy sketch called the “Four Yorkshiremen,” performed at various times by some or all of the cast of Monty Python. Four well-heeled fellows chat as they smoke cigars...

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Marketplace’s inflation calculator: some fishy prices

In 1989, the year Marketplace first went on the air, the average cost for a year of a private, four-year college was $11,474 for tuition, room and board. If those costs had risen only with inflation,...

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What if the Fed just gave households money to help

It's raining cash, hallelujah, to (sort of) paraphrase what the Weather Girls sang. If you want to solve recessions, what about throwing cash at households instead of lowering interest rates by buying...

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