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Apple is Europe’s most loved brand and dominates social conversation, according to a just released study by social analytics company NetBase called the Brand Passion Report. The data to get the the top 50 brands in Europe with the strongest, most positive consumer emotions was gathered from 6,5 millions posts in social media from 50 countries during the period April 2015 …

‘’You are not rational; there is no such thing as ‘fair’; compromise is the worst thing you can do.’’ In the just released book ‘Never Split The Difference’, former FBI lead international kidnapping negotiator Chris Voss breaks down these strategies so that anyone can use them in the workplace, in business, or at home. After retiring from the FBI in 2007, Voss …

This Friday and Saturday, Japan will play host to the meeting of the G7- finance ministers and central bank governors. The gathering of the finance elite from the 7 wealthiest developed countries (representing more than 64% of the net global wealth) will take place in Sendai, about 70 km north of Fukushima. The choice of Sendai is designed to highlight reconstruction …

  In case you haven’t noticed, oil prices are staging a strong recovery towards 50 USD per barrel. That’s almost twice the price of February, when oil dropped to 26 USD/barrel – so be prepared for higher costs when your car needs the next fill-up. This remarkable price movement of the ‘black gold’ within a few weeks can also be seen …

Imagine, you’re 14 year old and you have a business idea. Soon after, you get a 30 million USD offer by a major company for the patent of your idea…   Well, for 8th grader Taylor Rosenthal this is no imagination: it’s the real story of the 14-year old from Opelika in Alabama. By the way, Alabama is the sixth …

2016 looks to be a profitable year for gold investors. The price per ounce of the precious metal rose about 20% (in USD) since January. That’s not too bad for a safe asset like gold, while bondholders and savers around the world suffer from low to negative interest rates (and, in the case of Romania, outrageous retail-banking fees). Gold demand …

At the end of last month, it became official: The smartphone market has gone flat. The first quarter of 2016 saw the smallest growth ever recorded. Even Apple, which seemed unstoppable, saw sales drop for first time since the iPhone’s launch in 2007. The stock market’s reaction in recent weeks was harsh. Yesterday, Apple shares fell to 90 USD, the lowest …

Exactly 4 months ago, bitcoin developer Mike Hearn, wrote a post on Medium that rocked the community of people who believe in the future of the digital currency and its technology. Bitcoin, he wrote, has failed. “It has failed because the community has failed.. Worse still, the network is on the brink of technical collapse.” The post led to screaming headlines about …

In politics and economics, it may not all be smooth in Romania and there is a lot of room for improvements. However, Romania is a paradise compared to other countries in the world: Every year, the Cato Institute publishes a list of the world’s most ‘miserable countries’ by using a simple economic formula to calculate the scores. Described as a Misery Index, the tally for …

About the high value of YouTube for value investors and business leaders YouTube, the world’s second most popular website, is also one of the most underappreciated investor resources, says Andrew Hunt, author of Better Value Investing:  Founded in May 2005 and acquired by Google in 2006 for 1,65 billion USD, YouTube has over 3 billion page views every day and would …