Christian Louboutin is going beyond fashion and making it easier for you to edit the perfect #ootd for Instagram. Louboutinize is the ultimate photo editing app that easily changes a color or even the texture of a photo with just a touch. Launched as of August 10, the photo-filtering app is available for iPhone users to download and start editing up. You can upload or take photos straight from the app. Louboutin put his own personal stamp on the project with a feature that allows you to turn any shoe sole to the iconic red color by simply touching the…
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Adidas no longer holds the ownership of its Rockport business. As of Monday, Adidas has officially handed over their company to both Berkshire Partners LLC and New Balance Holding, Inc.. Both companies who bought Rockport are in affiliation with the New Balance brand. Berkshire is a Boston-based investment firm and New Balance, Inc. is head of New Balance investments. Another corporation who joined in part with the transaction is Drydock Footwear LLC, home to Cobb Hill, Aravon and Dunham brands and is also affiliated with the New Balance corporation. These jointments will be forming The Rockport Group. Adidas has not…
Denim will always be classic, and for millennials (ages 18-34), it is all they can think about. In a study done by NPD, millennials represent 28 percent of all jean sales in the U.S., showing a renewed interest in the denim market. In the last 12 months, ending in May 2015, jean sales as a whole have fallen 5 percent, but for Millennials, it increased by 2 percent. So while jeans are losing popularity with many of Americans, millennials will not let denim die. Especially the older part of the group, as 13 percent of sales come from ages 25-34.…
There is much anticipation for the new additions to the Star Wars episodes, and though Star Wars: Episode VII has still yet to be released and will not be until the end of the year, casting for Episode VIII is already a go. The Hollywood Reporter sources have revealed that Benicio Del Toro was offered to play a villain in Star Wars: Episode VIII. It is still not yet finalized though as deals might be in the making to get Del Toro on board. Many believe Del Toro is the perfect fit for the Star Wars family as he is…
Seahorse limbs are nearly unbreakable, so scientists thought why not replicate that to make a new flexible robot? At Clemson University, researchers are working to create a robot inspired by a seahorse’s long curly tail. According to the researchers, this tail is the perfect design for its “square prisms surrounded by bony plates that are connected by joints.” Why not use the design of other animals’ tails? Well, most animals have a cylinder shaped tail that is easily crushed. Image via Clemson University The researchers share their notes with TechCrunch: “Researchers found that the square prototype was stiffer, stronger and…
With much controversy around Donald Trump and his hit on Mexican immigrants, many are starting to disassociate with Trump affiliated works and while it was not an easy decision, Macy’s has decided to join the pact. Macy’s chairman and chief executive Terry J. Lundgren made the decision to discontinue Donald Trump merchandise on Wednesday, and though it was not an easy decision for Lundgren and took a lot of debating, the reasoning was too large to overlook. On June 16, Trump made defamatory comments about Mexican immigrants during his presidential kickoff speech. He accused Mexican immigrants of bringing drugs and…
Facebook will be getting a new chief security officer and Yahoo will be losing theirs as Alex Stamos, cybersecurity officer for Yahoo Inc. will be making a move to Facebook Inc. Ironically, Stamos announced his move via Facebook with a post sharing that he would be starting with the social media company on Monday, June 29. Past chief security officer of Facebook Joe Sullivan had made his own move from the company back in April and headed to Uber. With a little over a year of experience at Yahoo, where he started in March of 2014, Stamos believes he is…
The times of accidentally sending an email to the wrong person or regretting sending it as soon as you send it is over, because Google’s Gmail now has a feature that allows you to “Undo Send.” We have all wished for something that could undo an email and felt embarrassed as the clock ticked down until the recipient contacted you. Whether it was a drunken angry email or a love confession, everyone has their impulses, but just as soon as you press send, you freak out. Well, when that freak out period happens you have up to 30 seconds to…
Apple Inc. just announced that its new music stream, Apple Music, will launch next week. Many wait in anticipation, but not all are happy as multi-platinum selling recording artist Taylor Swift chooses to opt her music out of the service. Swift is known for opting out of music streaming services in the past. She delayed her album “Fearless” for release with Spotify and now she has done the same with Apple Music by refusing to release her new album “1989.” The reason? The three month free-trial that Apple is offering with its release on June 30. According to Swift, Apple…
Summer just began, yet Toshiba is already preparing for the back-to-school season by introducing a line-up of new Windows 10 laptops and 2-in-1 products. Image via Forbes Toshiba has had great success with their Satellite C Series in their portable computers, so it was no doubt that they would keep expanding the model. Two new models are in order for the new Series C; one being 15.6 inch and one 17.3 inch. Both the sizes will be equipped with HD TruBright displays and a dedicated Cortana button that gives its user easy access to Microsoft’s new virtual assistant feature. The…
After being accused of overpricing handbags in their outlet stores, Michael Kors settled the class action lawsuit by agreeing to pay $4.88 million. The settlement began when the Michael Kors brand supposedly created “illusion” tags, attached to their exclusive outlet store handbags, that had a made-up “manufacturer’s suggested retail prices” (MSRP) so that the discounted price would look more profitable to the consumer than it actually was. via Mom Closet Shoppers caught on to the trick when they realized the bags had been made exclusively for the Michael Kors outlet stores and there was no intention of ever selling them…
Jurassic World stomped on the box office this weekend. The movie made an estimated $511.8 million in just the first days of its release. The film was adopted from the first ever Jurassic Park movies premiering almost 20 years ago. Jurassic World is the fourth film in the Jurassic series. According to Rentrak, a film and entertainment analytics company, the movie also triumphed in domestic box office making an estimated record of $204.6 million as of Sunday. The movie can potentially beat out The Avengers from 2012 for the highest domestic opening of all time. As of Monday Jurassic World…
It has become a popular saying; Consumers are opening their wallets. With the economic growth seen in 2015, mall shoppers have spent more than usual in the month of May. The Commerce Department announced the results of the Bloomberg surveys; Economists reported a 1.2 percent jump in retail sales for the month. That is over half of the 0.5 percent they had projected. Just in the month of March there was a substantial increase as well, from 0.5 percent to 1 percent. For May, all categories of retail sales saw an increase; Auto dealer sales had a 2 percent rise,…
The Skype company, providing IM, audio and video call functions, has announced that their services are now available via open beta. Friday, May 5, the web company announced that they are allowing all to chat and call whomever they please, as long as they live in the U.S. or U.K. Whereas before, an individual must have been invited and accepted to be allowed to contact them. So far, most browsers can access the open beta including Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari and Firefox users. Unfortunately Chromebooks cannot access the new beta. Voice and video calling functions will only work for Windows…
Groupon, the highly coveted online commerce company, has announced Rich Williams as its new Chief Operating Officer. Previous to the announcement, Williams first served as Groupon’s Chief Marketing Officer, and then became President of the North American division, overseeing important initiatives that have made the region wildly successful. “Rich has been integral in steering our North American local business to three consecutive quarters of double-digit growth and helping to lead Groupon’s transformation to a mobile commerce marketplace,” said CEO Eric Lefkofsky. “As North America continues to be the leading edge of our tools, systems and processes, Rich is perfectly positioned…
The long wait is over; Apple will be unveiling their new music streaming service partnered with Sony Music at their World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). “It’s happening tomorrow,” said Sony’s CEO Doug Morris in an interview at the Midem conference in Cannes the day before the conference, Sunday May 7th. Morris and the head of Apple’s music services, Jimmy Lovine, have worked daily on their new project. Morris says that they talk on the phone twice a day, even to today; he believes Lovine is a brilliant asset to the Apple company. via VentureBeat/Chris O’Brian The Apple company has…
Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. has seen a significant jump in sales, standing up to competing drug stores that are usually the more convenient choice. In their First Quarter sales, which ended May 3rd, 2015, the company saw a jump in sales by 21.6 percent, from $713.8 million last year to $868.1 million this year. Its comparable sales to their competing stores on the e-commerce market rose 11.4 percent, compared to last year’s 8.7 percent. The retail comparable sales also saw a significant jump with a 9.7 percent increase. The biggest growth, however, that the company has seen in…
Get your prescriptions sent right to your door. The new company, PillPack, takes on big pharmacies such as RiteAid and Walgreens, introducing a new and much easier way to receive your pharmaceutical needs. In Series C financing the company rounded up about $50 million to help them build up their company. They launched in 2014 and have been working with insurance and physicians to ship out medication regularly straight to the consumers door. Each medication is sent in its own unique packaging and is sent out every two weeks to any desired address. The shipped items include prescriptions, vitamins and…
Father’s Day is just around the corner, go beyond basic with his gift this year to show how much you truly appreciate him. If your dad is in to the latest gadgets, here are the latest buzz items for him on the market. Video Streamers The new way to stream videos and apps like Netflix straight to you television. A video streamer is the perfect gift for the movie and tv show obsessed dads. Try the Roku 3, voice activated easy for any dad to use, even the technology challenged ones. And for the late night watchers, it is equipped…
Social media can, at times, be very detrimental for companies, especially those responsible for handling our food. KFC, which has more than 4,800 operating restaurants in China, recently discovered false claims about their chicken, and have acted quickly to shut down the rumors. Parent company, Yum Brands, is already familiar with acts of defamation and real product issues. Currently, the company is trying to recover financially in China, a region which accounts for half its revenue. First quarter profits and revenue showed declines, with sales down 9% from last year. The monetary issues are the effect of KFC’s troubles in…
Expect to start seeing emails from Instagram in your inbox as they try to appeal to its less active users. Social media sites are notorious for spamming their users, in notifications and in emails. Twitter and Facebook both send updates on what is going on with your social media whether you were or weren’t away. Twitter tells you popular tweets, and Facebook tells you notifications you might’ve missed when scrolling through the website. Each update email has multiple hyperlinks in order for users, who may not be as engaged with their social media as these websites would like, to get…
Everyone would dream to have a Hermes Birkin Bag, but at $222,000 that is a bit difficult to achieve; not for Hong Kong auctioneer who purchased a diamond embedded fuschia Birkin Bag for just that price. In Hong Kong on Monday June 1, the Christie’s handbag auction was equipped with top notch one-of-a-kind designer bags, one being a Hermes Birkin bag with fuchsia crocodile print and accents, including a small lock covered in diamonds. An unnamed bidder set records by bidding a whopping 1.72 million Hong Kong dollars ($220,00) on the featured Birkin bag. Past record holder purchased their red…
40 years later and the prestigious luxury brand Giorgio Armani is still hitting record sales and making their 2014 year a profitable one as always. The brand’s earnings for the 2014 year were $674.3 million, a 5.7 percent jump from their 2013 earnings of $633.3 million. This calculation was made before any interest, taxes, or depreciation. That was not even the biggest jump for the Armani brand. The brand saw a 16 percent increase in revenue from $2.87 billion in 2013 to $3.36 billion in 2014. According to WWD, the brand has to thank its Asia and Middle East markets,…
It is one thing for our accessories to go tech, but Levi Strauss & Co and Google Inc. are collaborating to make your clothing from jeans, shirts and underwear tech savvy as well. The companies are calling it Project Jacquard and it is officially being introduced to Google developers at their Friday May 29 conference. Basically they will be introducing the idea of putting what they develop in their smartwatches and smartglasses to be put into the fabrics of Levi’s clothing. Google already has the technology to make it happen. The company developed conductive fibers through a Japanese firm and…
Yelp is making it easier to shop till you drop with their new partnership with Shoptiques.com to give their shoppers a new way to “shop cool local boutiques directly on Yelp.” Yelp’s new platform launched Wednesday May 27 and allows you to shop at your local boutiques right from your phone. The app will give reviews and highlights from the Yelp Community as their usual service does, but on top of that now for each boutique there will be an inventory, allowing you to browse through all the clothing and even purchase and get them shipped to you, all through…
Google has risen in popularity in the past couple years, now its email server Gmail has a total of 900 million users. It is definitely this generation’s AOL, of course everyone remembers that craze. Senior Vice President for Google, Sundar Pichai, announced their major growth in users Friday, May 29; a 425 million jump from users recorded in 2012. He also noted that 75 percent of the 900 users access their emails through their cell phone. Google has officially beat out the number one spot in email services, kicking Hotmail (now known as Outlook.com) to the second place spot. Though…
Facebook has been adding new features to their site lately. One in particular is competing with websites like Yelp, giving you instant reviews on restaurants, but not just any kind, actual critic reviews. Just two weeks ago the social media site added hosting for news articles, now they are adding a place for professional food critics to leave their reviews on a restaurant. This new feature could help Facebook boost their search feature, potentially competing with companies like Yelp and Google. This new feature is actually a step up to what Yelp provides. On top of friends reviews, you will…
Due to L’Oreal’s digital-marketing innovations in the past two year, their sales have significantly increased, triumphing over most U.S. packaged-goods companies. The beauty company had a sales growth of 5.4 percent, bring their total sales to $4.1 billion for the year reported by Deutsche Bank from the SymphonyIRI data. In just their third quarter, L’Oreal’s North American sales went up 7.1 percent. L’Oreal’s Chief Marketing Officer Marc Speichert explains the reason for their growth being due to low U.S. shares. “We still see big opportunities in the U.S., in part because our shares are lower here than in other parts…
As sales fall at the Gap Inc. retailer store and its other sister companies, one seems to be reaching all time highs: Old Navy. On Thursday May 21, the Gap Inc. first quarter sales showed a 5 percent drop in sales for the fiscal year. Usually the brand increases around 4 percent per year, this is the first time the exact opposite has occurred. Banana Republic owned by the company also dropped in its sales by 3 percent. As for Old Navy, they are definitely the envied sister of the pact. Their sales, unlike Gap’s 5 percent drop, had a…
Google continues to make our lives even easier by adding a new feature on to their Google Maps. You will now receive immediate traffic alerts when on route to your destination. Not only will Google Maps give you the most efficient and fastest way to get to your destination, but it will also warn you of any traffic or construction on the way. The feature was just added in time for Memorial Day Weekend when everyone is on the road for their vacations. Google already gave us updates on traffic with a colored line, yellow indicated moderate traffic and red…
Congrats grads! As graduation is near so is the search for jobs, but luckily for the MBA graduates of 2015 this is the best time to be entering the job market. Companies are on the prowl for business graduates more so now than they have been in decades as a report shows. The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) did a study that showed corporations will hire the most students graduating with MBAs in 2015 than they have since 2003. They found that 84 percent of companies said they will hire MBA students, a 10 percent jump from last years study.…
Employees are demanding higher wages from the multi-billion dollar fast food company, McDonald’s, as well as other employees from various fast food places and restaurants. Thousands of McDonald’s workers protested outside the company’s headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois while the company had their big annual two day meeting. They are demanding an increase in minimum wage from the $7.25 most are receiving now to $15 an hour. Protests from minimum wage worker in the food and retail industry have become a common occurrence and have created a national debate on each states minimum wage. McDonald’s has already responded to their…
Let’s face it; college takes a lot of time and money. So, when you are left with so much free time during the summer, what better way than to earn cash while you can. Summer jobs are everywhere, but which ones will earn you the most cash is the real question. Yahoo Finance has figured out the best summer jobs to help college or highschool kids save up the most amount of money before returning back to responsibilities. Theme Park Ride Operator: Ever imagined working those rides as a kid? Well now you can do it. If you are looking…
There is a new definition of working from home when your boss can track you 24/7 and you don’t even know its happening. Intermex employee, Myrna Arias knew her boss would be fully monitoring her work and professional life, but was unaware that her boss could tap into her whole life. Upon receiving the job she was told to install an app called Xora that would track her whereabouts using a GPS system as she drove around Central Valley in California as part of her job. Yet even when off the job the traker never stopped. Arias filed a lawsuit…
Johnny Depp and wife Amber Heard can potentially lose their two Yorkshire terriers because of their inability to follow Australia’s animal import law. The Pirates of the Caribbean actor brought his dogs, Boo and Pistol, into Australia without permits or a period in quarantine. And for that Depp and Heard are being forced to choose by the Australian quarantine authorities to either put them down or fly them out of the country by Saturday. To prevent spreading any serious diseases like rabies, Australia put strict restrictions on transporting pets. A pet owner who is bringing their pet to the country…
A painting made by the infamous abstract artist, Pablo Picasso, sold at a New York auction Monday May 11th for $179,365,000, said a Christie’s spokesperson. The canvas painting was created by iconic artist in 1955 named “Les femmes d’Alger (Version “O”)” Christie’s auction house estimated the price of the Picasso to sell no more than $140 million. Well were they surprised when a private buyer bought the painting for over $175 million. The seller remains anonymous. The painting last sold in 1997 for $31.9 million; over a hundred million difference to what it was sold just 18 years later. via…
An explosion occurred on Saturday May 9th at the Indian Point nuclear plant in New York city which started a fire then caused an oil leak into the Hudson River the next day. The oil leak into the River Sunday May 10th was 40 miles north of New York City having Governor Andrew Cuomo worried about major environmental damage. In the past, Cuomo has pushed to shut down the plant because of how close it is to New York City’s population. He visited the plant both the day of the fire on Saturday and the leaking Sunday. Oil leaking happened…
In efforts of lessening the burden on California’s drought, Starbucks Corp. will be moving their Ethos water bottle production plant to Pennsylvania. The move will occur within the next six months as reported by Mother Jones. Right now the Seattle based coffee company produces their water bottles in Merced, California, which has been determined one of the most affected cities and is in “exceptional drought.” The private springs in Baxter from which the company sources their water and is then transferred for production in Merced is also in extreme drought. Starbucks senior vice president of global responsibility and public policy,…
Highest paid women in the U.S. is Apple Inc.’s senior vice president of retail and online stores, Angela Ahrendts. According to Bloomberg, Ahrendts made $82.6 million in 2014 when she was working as the chief executive officer for London luxury fashion retailer Burberry Group Plc. At 54 years old she became the first women on the management team in May 2014. All her pay came from a sign-on bonus and a make-whole grant for awards while at Burberry. This totaled to $105.5 million in value. Spokesman for Apple, Josh Rosenstock would not comment on Ahrendts compensation. The highest paid women…
SeaWorld says they will soon own “Orlando’s tallest, fastest, and longest coaster.” The marine park announced the beginning of building in their press release Friday April 24. SeaWorld Orlando officials say the roller coaster will stand 200 feet tall and will be completed as of next year. They explain that the rides experience will be a “rise from the ocean depths and soar to thrilling new heights.” This is the parks latest coaster ride since the addition of Manta in 2009. The ride does have some competition though with another coaster expected in central Orlando called The Skyscraper. The Skyscraper…
Poultry prices continue to be on the rise possibly hurting corporation who rely heavily on their supply. Indonesia’s government efforts to gain a larger self-sufficiency in food production has put a policy in place that has restricted the amount of corn imports, which has already affected rice and bean prices. This policy is expected to also increase the price of poultry coming from Indonesia. From just a year ago, home-grown chicken is up by 6 percent costing $5 per kg says the Trade Ministry data. Food prices in general have also increased 6 percent in a years span. Indonesian President…
LinkedIn shares are down after the introduction of its lowered guidance. A 19 percent decrease in the first quarter. The company earned 57 cents per share and made a revenue of $638 million for the first quarter of 2015 reported on Thursday April 30. Yet, the company met its projected earnings as Thomson Reuters had estimated 56 cents per share and a $636 revenue for the LinkedIn company’s first quarter. The estimated value of the second quarter has been estimated to be a $67o million to $675 million revenue and 28 cents per share. Initially the estimation was at a…
The famous checkerboard pattern is what the Louis Vuitton brand is known for and they are now losing all rights to keep it to themselves. The European Union’s General Court made a ruling that denied the luxury brand the right to trademark their Damier checkerboard pattern seen mostly on bags and accessories. The Court says the pattern is too common to be called the brands design and for it to be restricted to one brand. The trademark was first granted to Louis Vuitton by the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM). OHIM’s…
In New York City, Kendall Jenner’s Calvin Klein billboard was vandalized and within days a new and improved billboard was put up in its place. The billboard is located in the heart of SoHo and features Keeping Up With the Kardashian star in a Calvin Klein crop top and jeans. The old billboard was similar yet Jenner was in a crop top and sweat shorts and it was a side profile instead of the frontal one up now. via Instagram/kendalljenner Wednesday, April 29, a famous graffiti artist Katsu used a phantom drone to draw red lines across the model’s face.…
Two French tourists filmed themselves intentionally burning a quokka while on an Australian vacation. Quokka are an endangered species and this incident caused a public outrage. Thibaud Jean Leon Vallet, 24, and Jean Mickael Batrikian, 18 took a video of them igniting an aerosol spray to the animals head and body followed by laughter coming from the men. The quokka luckily survived the attack. The men were each fined $4,000 but according to The Australian Broadcasting Corporation they were unable to pay the amount and instead spent a night in jail. They also were excused from their jobs for the…
Mila Kunis takes action by helping miners become the biggest emerald producers in the world. Kunis spent two nights at the Zambian mines actually going down to help with miners. Though a bit nervous at first she ended up loving it there. “Yeah I am sad to leave, I loved it here,” she had said when leaving according to Gemfields CEO, Ian Harebottle. He calls actor Mila Kunis very “special” through all the work she put in at the mines. Harebottle speaks to a Bloomberg reporter Pimm Fox about how his company which prides themselves on being the single largest…
One of the biggest online retailer Amazon.com is exceeding their own expectations by passing its estimated sales for the first-quarter. Bloomberg analysts projected a $22.4 billion in sales for the company. The company announced Thursday April 23rd of a 15 percent jump to $22.7 billion. Amazon is reported to be the largest cloud-computing service seller with their Web Services saying their revenue increased by 49 percent to $1.57 billion. More focus is being put into the companies biggest revenue outlet. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos said money and focus is being put into new warehouses and data centers. He also…
American Apparel faces a lawsuit from a former employee who claims he was wrongfully fired due to religious belief. Former employee David Nisenbaum accuses American Apparel terminated him after he claimed he was religiously discriminated against by the former CFO John Lutterell and had reported Lutteral for financial mismanagement issue. On April 16th three other employees also sued the company for giving them too short of a notice when being fired. In Nisenbaum’s lawsuit it states his job was to “help upgrade the accounting and finance department.” In this position he noticed Lutterell was not representing American Apparel well financially.…
Uber has been helping people find quick and easy rides in the city for cheaper than a taxi driver, now the same founder is creating a new shopping app. Uber founder Garrett Camp developed Uber; a service that detects an Uber driver through GPS systems, and it became an instant success earning him $5.3 billion. Camp has developed a new app that he believes is the next big thing; It is called Operator. This app will connect consumers with retailers to buy and sell items through their mobile device. The customer will take a picture of a product and upload…
At a New York auction at Sotheby’s on Tuesday April 21, a 100-carat diamond went up and sold for $22.1 billion according to Sotheby’s This classic diamond was an emerald-cut D diamond the size of a walnut mined by South Africa’s De Beers. The estimated selling price before the auction was $19 to $25 million. The buyer of the stunning diamond remains anonymous and made his purchase on the phone. Sotheby’s head jeweler, Gary Schuler described the diamond as, “The color is whiter than white, it is free of any internal perfections, and so transparent that I can only compare it to…
Woodman, 39, has officially been determined the highest paid CEO in America with his product making him $284.5 million in stocks at the end of 2014. Though he may not have received all the money quite yet since it is given to him in monthly payments through a couple years he is still ranked at number 1 in the Bloomberg Pay Index. The GoPro was an idea that came from his own hobby as a surfer. He wanted a camera he can use to film action scenes of him surfing. He did just that with the current worth being nearly $6 billion. He…
Furious 7 final box office sales hit $1.15 billion making it number seven in box office sales of all times. The movies foreign total is at $858.8 million from the the past 19 days. China being one of the biggest contributors of the movie with $250.5 million in just eight days. In the weekend alone in China the movie took in $93.3 million making in the second highest grossing American behind Transformers: Age of Extinction which brought in $320 million. The film has been number one in North America for the past three consecutive weekends totalling $294.4 million. This is the first…
Chipotle, which once was under McDonald’s investments, is now a big competitor for the multi-billion dollar company. Back in 1998 burger chain McDonald’s held a 90% share in Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc and was a big reason for their success. With their help Chipotle grew from just 14 locations to over 500 in just seven years. But the company went through many complications because of McDonald’s attempt to control Chipotle. Business Insider reports that McDonald’s had suggestions such as adding drive thrus and serving breakfast, changing its name by adding a ‘Fresh’ to it, making its menu specific to each area, and…
Self-published writer Mark Dawson makes $450,000 by selling his works on Amazon. The conventional way to get paid by being a writer is by finding a major publisher to mass produce your book. But Dawson is proving that this method is not necessary anymore and a writer can make a living by self-publishing. After doing it the traditional way with his first book, Dawson wanted a way that he would make more revenue. His book had lacked any major reviews that would help it spark popularity. He tells Forbes that the publisher did not do a good job with promoting his book.…
With Samsung’s anticipated new hot phone Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge their market value has made a major $11 billion increase since March. The phone’s are said to be huge competitors for Apple’s iPhone 6 as WSJ reviews reported. The phone will feature a Corning Gorilla Glass 4 back, aluminum side detail, fast charging, a sharp display, and an improved camera. With the March 1st introduction of the phone the companies shares have increased by 6.2 percent. Unlike Apple’s fall of 3.14 percent in their stocks from last month. Samsung has now beat Apple in value being worth a total…
Electric cars are known mostly for their efficiency on saving gas not for their speed and power. The 1MW Toroidion is beating out the Bugatti making in the worlds most powerful electric car. The 1,341 hp car outbeat most electric car limitations. It can last on the road for more than 3,000 miles; 10 times the amount of any Tesla Model S or Audi R8 e-tron. Toroidion founded in 2011 has been trying to perfect the electric car ever since. So far they promised a scalable powertrain and swappable battery, but have yet to say more on the engineering and…
The Lilly Pulitzer line was launched at Target on Sunday April 19th and customers went crazy for the clothes in store and online quickly selling out everywhere. Photo: The nearly decimated #lillyfortarget section after 7 minutes. — Steph Himel-Nelson (@LawyerMama) April 19, 2015 Many anticipated this signature product line and some of the clothes are already appearing on Ebay for resale from those who made it to the store. The CEO of Belus Capital Advisor said the event was “typical Target” that Target had already planned the event to occur in such a way and purposely had a small…
With the growing craze of social media platforms like Instagram and YouTube, beauty bloggers are bringing in a salary similar to famous celebrities. They’re known as internet famous and have millions of subscribers who watch their videos or visit their blogs like a TV show. Whether it is to share their personal style or share tips on makeup application, viewers are addicted. Women’s Wear Daily reported back in 2014 that top beauty bloggers could be earning up to $1 million a year. Now how could they be earning so much from personal posts and videos? Just as companies pay TV programs…
An new app for “chill people” created by Todd Mitchem called High There! is receiving Apple and Google’s approval. The app is being accessed worldwide on both the Apple store and Google Play connecting fellow cannabis users with each other. Forbes describes it as the “Tinder for marijuana users.” Despite the controversy Mitchem somehow convinced the most powerful industries tech companies that it does not promote marijuana sales rather “If you are someone interested in the movement and want to meet nice, chill people, that’s what it’s about,” as founder Mitchem said. The app was not always allowed globally, in…
Should a on-call shift be allowed? There are 13 national retailers being questioned on this practice by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Letters were sent out Friday April 10th to these 13 retailers: Gap Inc., Abercrombie & Fitch, J. Crew Group Inc., L. Brands, Burlington Coat Factory, TJX Companies, Urban Outfitters, Target Corp., Sears Holding Corp., Williams-Sonoma Inc., Crocs, Ann Inc. and J.C. Penney Co. Inc. In the letter written by Labor Bureau Chief Terri Gerstein it stated, “We have been informed that a number of companies in New York State utilize on-call shifts and require employees to report in some…
On CNBC news CEO and Co-Founder of Street Cred Louis Berly and “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary have a heated debate about the massive threat student loans have to the credit market. Street Cred is one of the largest lenders in coding bootcamps, student loan refinancing and personal lending . Berly reports he is lending to all students as long as they have merit. He describes this as, “people who are paying their bills on time, not revolving their credit card balance saving for the future.” Since most 18 year olds have yet to build up any of these requirements…
