Why engineers in Alberta think they've found a way for the oilsands to produce clean fuel

As the world reaches for cleaner energy, hydrogen has long been viewed with a lot of hope. Often called the fuel of the future, the gas can be used to generate electricity and power vehicles. It produces water — not carbon — when burned.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/alberta-hydrogen-innovation-1.5290297?source=Snapzu

iPhone 11 sees strong festive demand across India as people throng stores

New Delhi: Heralding a perfect Diwali for Apple, iPhone lovers on Friday thronged Apple Authorised Resellers and premium stores across India to grab new iPhone 11 — a scene reminiscent of the arrival of Apple 6 and 7 series in the country in 2014 and 2015.
Read more: https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/indians-throng-apple-stores-strong-festive-demand-for-iphone-11-1569594400776.html?source=Snapzu

The Art of the Con and Why People Fall for It

By definition, a con artist is a manipulator who cheats, or tricks, others through persuading them to believe something that is not true. Through deception, they fool people into believing they can make easy money when, in fact, it is the con artist who ends up taking the victim’s money. The criminal and legal consequences of such indiscretions can be insignificant or great, depending on the circumstances and the laws of the land. In the course of co-authoring The Crime Book...
Read more: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/crime-she-writes/201909/the-art-the-con-and-why-people-fall-it?source=Snapzu

4 Lessons From Launching And Selling A Tech Startup In Just 3 Years

“Looking back, it’s a little surreal,” he said. Just this year, the company that Andrew Duplessie co-founded with Daniel Taylor, AskTipster -- a style advice app and social growth engine with over 1 billion impressions, 250 million views, and 3 million installs -- was acquired by the DTX Company, Tim Armstrong’s new venture.
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joresablount/2019/09/25/4-lessons-from-launching-and-selling-a-tech-startup-in-just-3-years/?source=Snapzu

Trade Groups and their Carbon Footprints

We are a neutral and independent UK-based non-profit whose remit is to map, analyze and score the extent to which corporations are influencing climate policy and legislation worldwide.
Read more: https://influencemap.org/report/Trade-Groups-and-their-Carbon-Footprints-f48157cf8df3526078541070f067f6e6?source=Snapzu

Logitech is buying Streamlabs for $89 million

The hardware maker gets game live streaming software
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/26/20886060/logitech-streamlabs-obs-acquisition-twitch?source=Snapzu

UK wages flatline as robots take skilled jobs, pushing workers into low-paid roles

Wages are flatlining because companies are scrapping swathes of mid-tier positions – replacing them with algorithms and cheap offshore labour, according to a new report. White-collar recruitment specialist Hays found that with jobs like paralegal work and administration, new technology is making these roles redundant, leaving over-qualified professionals working in lower-tier positions instead.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/wages-fall-automation-robots-skilled-office-jobs-low-pay-a9116246.html?source=Snapzu

Here's How Google Sends Advertising Dollars to Fake News Sites

New research shows Google's online ad technologies provide an estimated 70% of ad revenue to 1,700 websites purveying misinformation.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/8xw575/heres-how-google-sends-advertising-dollars-to-fake-news-sites?source=Snapzu

5 reasons McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC must speak up about the Amazon fires

The Amazon rainforest is on fire. But what does this have to do with McDonald’s, KFC and Burger King? Here are the top five reasons why these fast food giants must take a stand against Amazon destruction...
Read more: https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/24341/reasons-mcdonalds-burger-king-kfc-must-speak-up-amazon-fires/?source=Snapzu

Is the era of the $100+ graphing calculator coming to an end?

Texas Instruments has enjoyed a near-monopoly on graphing calculators for nearly three decades. But new technology may be threatening the company’s empire.
Read more: https://thehustle.co/graphing-calculators-expensive/?source=Snapzu

What Will It Take to Solve the Student Loan Crisis?

Reform needs to come from outside of higher ed.
Read more: https://hbr.org/2019/09/what-will-it-take-to-solve-the-student-loan-crisis?source=Snapzu

IKEA is investing $2.8 billion in renewable energy infrastructure

The world's largest furniture manufacturer is going off grid.
Read more: https://qz.com/1712654/ikeas-retail-arm-is-investing-2-8-billion-in-renewable-energy/?source=Snapzu

Delaware judge says Tesla board must face trial over Musk's mega-pay package

A Delaware judge ruled on Friday that Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) board of directors must defend at a trial Chief Executive Elon Musk’s multibillion dollar pay package, which a shareholder lawsuit said unjustly enriched the head of the electric vehicle company.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-musk-pay/delaware-judge-says-tesla-board-must-face-trial-over-musks-mega-pay-package-idUSKBN1W52KF?source=Snapzu

PayPal reinstates controversial policy of pocketing fees from refunds

Sellers are not pleased
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/20/20876570/paypal-refund-fee-policy-change-sellers-controversy?source=Snapzu

Busted: $10 Million Tech Support Scam That Preyed on the Elderly

Two individuals were arrested this week in connection with a fraud scheme that manipulated thousands of victims into paying for invented tech services that they didn’t need.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/busted-10-million-tech-support-scam-that-preyed-on-th-1838295737?source=Snapzu

Steam should let users resell games, French court rules

French Steam users have the right to resell games, a Paris court has ruled in a case brought by a consumer group. The years-long case isn’t fully settled because Valve can yet appeal, and why would they not? This is still a big decision. The official line so far has been that games bought in a downloadable form, without a physical form like a disc backing them, cannot be resold.
Read more: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/09/19/steam-should-let-users-resell-games-french-court-rules/?source=Snapzu

Microsoft boss: tech firms must stop 'if it's legal, it's acceptable' approach

Tech companies should stop behaving as though everything that is not illegal is acceptable, says Microsoft’s second-in-command. Instead, they should focus on defining – and living by – the standards that they would like to see in regulation, before it gets forced on them anyway.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/20/microsoft-boss-tech-firms-must-stop-if-its-legal-its-acceptable-approach?source=Snapzu

Removing the Profit From Our Pills: The Case for a Public Pharma System

Any American who has paid the price of a patent-protected medicine knows the core flaw in the U.S. prescription drug system: our elected leaders have handed over control to profit-hungry corporations. And for-profit corporations gonna for-profit, as the kids would say.
Read more: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/09/18/removing-profit-our-pills-case-public-pharma-system?source=Snapzu

Apple Fifth Avenue: The cube is back

Apple today previewed the new Apple Fifth Avenue, an entirely reimagined space beneath one of New York City’s most recognized landmarks.
Read more: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/09/apple-fifth-avenue-the-cube-is-back/?source=Snapzu

200,000 people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week

Amazon announced last week it wanted to hire 30,000 employees — and a whopping 208,000 people applied, the ecommerce giant said Wednesday in touting the success of a recent recruitment drive it held in six cities as part of the hiring spree.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/200000-people-applied-for-30000-open-jobs-at-amazon-in-a-single-week/?source=Snapzu

Amazon orders 100K electric delivery trucks from Rivian as part of going carbon neutral by 2040

Amazon will be stepping up its efforts to reduce its climate impact, CEO Jeff Bezos announced on Thursday. The company will be ordering 100,000 electric delivery trucks from Michigan’s Rivian as part of this commitment, Bezos said. The commerce giant will seek to meet its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2040 – 10 years earlier than is outlined by the United Nations Paris Agreement.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/19/amazon-orders-100k-electric-delivery-trucks-from-rivian-as-part-of-going-carbon-neutral-by-2040/?source=Snapzu

Why startups fail? How to prevent it from happening?

Startups are exciting, we wouldn’t have got facebook, google or uber if someone didn’t take the risk to spend their time energy and money to make something new. Most of the successful startup founders got rewarded for taking this risk. But what about those startups that never see the daylight? out of 100 million startups launched every year only a tiny fraction become successful? Why startups fail? Lets find out.
Read more: https://contentmarketo.com/why-startups-fail/?source=Snapzu

A Shit Job for One Is a Shit Job for All

Last week’s passage of a bill in the California state legislature ending the rampant misclassification of workers as independent contractors was a huge win. The bill was animated by the spirit of unions fighting for the entire working class — the exact principle that should animate all unions.
Read more: https://jacobinmag.com/2019/09/assembly-bill-5-ab5-uber-lyft-gig-economy-rideshare?source=Snapzu

Bill Gates: 'Economists don't actually understand macroeconomics'

Economics is predictably unpredictable, says Microsoft's co-founder in an interview.
Read more: https://qz.com/1709972/bill-gates-economists-dont-actually-understand-macroeconomics/amp/?source=Snapzu

US housing starts race to 12-year high in August

U.S. homebuilding surged to more than a 12-year high in August as both single- and multi-family housing construction increased, suggesting that lower mortgage rates were finally providing a boost to the struggling housing market. Housing starts jumped 12.3% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.364 million units last month, the highest level since June 2007, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/18/us-housing-starts-total-1point364-million-in-august-vs-1point250-million-expected.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard?source=Snapzu

Africa-focused Andela cuts 400 staff as it confirms $50M in revenue

Africa-focused tech talent accelerator Andela will cut 400 junior engineers across Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria, CEO Jeremy Johnson told TechCrunch. The layoffs come as the startup released first-time earnings figures indicating it will surpass $50 million in annual revenues for 2019. Yes, the news seems a bit disjointed. Not everything moves in the same direction in the business of startups.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/17/africa-focused-andela-cuts-400-staff-as-it-confirms-50m-in-revenue/?source=Snapzu

A Shadowy Industry Group Shapes Food Policy Around the World

The International Life Sciences Institute, with branches in 17 countries, is funded by giants of the food and drug industries.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/health/ilsi-food-policy-india-brazil-china.html?source=Snapzu

Amazon reportedly tweaked its search results to promote more profitable products

Amazon changed the algorithms that power its product-search system to favor products with higher profit margins, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/16/amazon-tweaked-search-to-promote-more-profitable-products-reports-wsj.html?source=Snapzu

UK launch for app that cancels subscriptions

The virtual card automatically protects people from being charged at the end of a free trial period.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49688309?source=Snapzu

The World's First Floating Dairy Farm

In the search for more sustainable methods of global food production, one couple in the Netherlands is taking an unconventional approach: they have become the operators of the world's first and only floating dairy farm.
Read more: https://www.freethink.com/articles/the-world-s-first-floating-dairy-farm?source=Snapzu

Volkswagen’s bold plan to create a new car operating system

Volkswagen Group is creating a new division just for car software.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/09/volkswagen-audi-porsche-vw-group-plans-one-os-to-rule-them-all/?source=Snapzu

The iPhone and Apple’s Services Strategy

Apple’s annual iPhone event may have marked Apple’s true shift into being a Services company.
Read more: https://stratechery.com/2019/the-iphone-and-apples-services-strategy/?source=Snapzu

Kickstarter’s Tumultuous Journey to Where No Tech Company Has Gone Before: Unionization

The company has fired two organizers in just over a week.
Read more: https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/kickstarter-turmoil-union-drive-historic-tech-industry.html?source=Snapzu

Biohackers fell hard for a company selling hydrogen water, but many now say the whole thing was a scam

Trusii's hydrogen water machines were supposed to help users with their health problems, but customers claim the company is involved in a giant scam.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/14/trusii-hydrogen-water-left-customers-complaining-of-a-scam-bad-debt.html?source=Snapzu

MoviePass will shut down for good on Sept. 14

MoviePass announced on Friday it’s shutting down the discount ticketing service on Sept. 14. Shares of MoviePass parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics dropped 10% Friday afternoon, though the stock trades for a fraction of a penny.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/13/moviepass-will-shut-down-for-good-on-sept-14.html?source=Snapzu

You Call It the Gig Economy. California Calls It ‘Feudalism.’

Labor leaders cheered in the balcony and lawmakers embraced on the floor of the California Senate on Tuesday as it passed a landmark measure that defines employees, a move that could increase wages and benefits for hundreds of thousands of struggling workers. But the bill is as much a starting point as an endgame: It will drive a national debate over how to reshape labor laws fashioned in the industrial era of the 1930s to fit a 21st-century service and knowledge economy.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/opinion/california-gig-economy-bill-ab5.html?source=Snapzu

Discord is axing its Nitro Games catalog since almost nobody plays them

The catalog of games Discord made available to its $9.99 Nitro subscribers is being removed from the platform. Discord says this is due to a majority of Nitro subscribers not playing the games.
Read more: https://www.neowin.net/news/discord-is-axing-its-nitro-games-catalog-since-almost-nobody-plays-them?source=Snapzu

Amazon-owned Whole Foods is cutting medical benefits for part-time workers

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest person.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/13/20864636/amazon-whole-foods-medical-benefits-part-time-workers-jeff-bezos?source=Snapzu

8 Proven Ways to Generate Infinite Content Ideas for Your Blog

Out of content ideas? Here's the 8 top tactics to generate killer ideas for your content marketing. Always starting with your reader in mind.
Read more: https://blog.salesflare.com/content-ideas?source=Snapzu

News Digest - top stories about business and tech development

Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy the digest news regarding business development as well as tech development!
Read more: https://2muchcoffee.com/blog/weekly-news-digest-19/?source=Snapzu

How to Start a Blog Interview Series with Leaders in Your Niche

A well-crafted blog interview series is an excellent weapon to add to your marketing arsenal. Enhance your authority, boost your SEO, and more, by interviewing top influencers in your niche.
Read more: https://www.breakingtheonepercent.com/blog-interview-series/?source=Snapzu

BangBros porn site bids $10M on naming rights for Miami stadium

Miami Heat could play their next game from the Bangbros Center.
Read more: https://www.cnet.com/news/bangbros-porn-site-bids-10m-on-naming-rights-for-miami-stadium/?source=Snapzu

France will not tax crypto-to-crypto trades; will tax gains converted into 'traditional' currency

French economy minister Bruno Le Maire has stated that crypto-to-crypto trades will be tax-exempt, according to a report by Bloomberg. Instead, France will only tax cryptocurrency gains when they are converted into “traditional” currencies. “We believe that the moment the gains are converted into traditional money is the right time to assess tax,” Le Maire …
Read more: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/39518/france-will-not-tax-crypto-to-crypto-trades-will-tax-gains-converted-into-traditional-currency/?source=Snapzu

Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism—Before It's Too Late

And climate change at the same time
Read more: https://www.outsideonline.com/2401446/norway-adventure-travel-overtourism?source=Snapzu

Thomas Piketty's new book uses data to trace how inequality changes ideology

In the same way that Capital in the Twenty-First Century transformed the way economists look at inequality, Piketty’s new book Capital and Ideology will transform the way political scientists look at their own field.
Read more: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/12/brahmin-left.html?source=Snapzu

Florida woman sentenced to prison for $1.6 million family curse scam

A Florida woman who claimed to be a fortune teller has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for taking $1.6 million from a Texas woman to remove a curse from her family. Sherry Tina Uwanawich, 28, was sentenced last week, according to the Associated Press.
Read more: https://www.nbc-2.com/story/41037563/florida-woman-sentenced-to-prison-for-dollar16-million-family-curse-scam?source=Snapzu

Content Marketing Trends for a Healthcare Industry to Use

Shape the future of healthcare by following the top social media trends in your content marketing strategy.
Read more: https://2muchcoffee.com/blog/content-marketing-trends-for-a-healthcare-industry-to-use/?source=Snapzu

A Simple Plan for Writing One Powerful Piece of Content Each Week

Consistently good content that builds an audience is the foundation of online business. But how do you make that happen in a manageable way?
Read more: https://www.copyblogger.com/weekly-content-plan/?source=Snapzu

How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

Companies that let their workers decide where and when to do their jobs—whether in another city or in the middle of the night—increase employee productivity, reduce turnover, and lower organizational costs, new research suggests.
Read more: https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/how-companies-benefit-when-employees-work-remotely?cid=spmailing-29026614-WK%20Newsletter%2009-11-2019%20(1)-September%2011,%202019?source=Snapzu

This could 'end very badly': Trump officials warn on mortgage finance

The U.S. housing finance system is worse off today than it was on the cusp of the 2008 financial crisis, Republican lawmakers and Trump administration officials warned on Tuesday. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-controlled enterprises that stand behind half the country's mortgages, are way too undercapitalized, and lending standards have actually deteriorated since the housing crash, the officials said.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/10/mortgage-finance-donald-trump-officials-1721529?source=Snapzu