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Google cofounder Sergey Brin went sailing in Ibiza with one of tech's most controversial figures (GOOG, GOOGL)

Steve Jurvetson, cofounder of one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious VC firms, posted photos to Twitter on Saturday evening of himself and friends aboard one of the world’s largest sailboats. According to Jurvetson’s tweets, among those sailing in the waters off Ibiza with him were two female start-up founders and Google cofounder Sergey Brin. On Saturday evening, Jurvetson’s Twitter page showed photos of a group of people aboard the Maltese Falcon, one of the world’s tallest sailing vessels. …read more […]

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College is more expensive than it's ever been, and the 5 reasons why suggest it's only going to get worse

College is expensive for many reasons, including a surge in demand, an increase in financial aid, a lack of state funding, a need for more faculty members and money to pay them, and ballooning student services. “I’m happy with my life today and with the education I received, but it’s unfortunate that I’ll be paying for it for another seven years at least,” Kirdy, who attended a four-year public university, told Business Insider. “There are many factors behind the cost of college, and some people have stressed one or another,” Richard Vedder, an author and distinguished professor of …read more […]

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5 Top Stock Trades for Monday

On Friday, we got the labor report for the month of June, and the 213,000 jobs came in ahead of expectations calling for 195,000. This sent U.S. equities higher, a sigh of relief among investors. That’s got us looking at five more top stock trades for Monday:Top Stock Trades for Tomorrow #1: Biogen (BIIB) …read more […]

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Falling pound sends Apple reseller Stormfront into red

One of the UK’s largest official resellers of Apple products fell into the red last year after the plunging value of the pound forced it to hike the price of iMacs and Macbooks. Professional Reseller Group, which has 23 Stormfront stores across the UK and also supplies businesses, made a pre-tax loss of £475,000 in the year to September 2017, down from a £28,000 profit the year before, despite a 5pc rise in revenues to £61.6m. The pound hit a 30-year low against the dollar in the wake of 2016’s EU referendum. Though Devon-based Stormfront buys its products in sterling, …read more […]

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North Korea Reminds Trump Its Nuclear Weapons Won’t Come Cheap

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went to Pyongyang to get Kim Jong Un to give up his nuclear weapons. While President Donald Trump’s point man for nuclear talks summed up his 27 hours in the North Korean capital as “productive,” the regime called the visit “regretful.” No sooner had Pompeo left when Kim’s media published a statement saying the U.S.’s “unilateral and gangster-like demand for denuclearization” risked upending ties less than a month after Trump and Kim shook hands in Singapore. …read more […]

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The Latest: Engineers sent by Elon Musk remain on standby

The California tunnel company run by Elon Musk is continuing to maintain a presence at the Thai cave where several boys and their soccer coach are awaiting rescue. Musk says the sub would be light enough to be carried by two divers and small enough to get through narrow cave gaps. Chiang Rai provincial acting Gov. Narongsak Osatanakorn made the comment at a news conference Sunday evening after rescuers extracted four of the boys from the cave where they had been trapped for more than two weeks. …read more […]

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Perilous, dark labyrinth for Thai schoolboys on journey back to light

The cave system, in a limestone mountain range bordering Myanmar in northern Thailand, has proven to be a formidable challenge for the international rescue coalition drawing some of the world’s best divers who have volunteered to help in the operation alongside Thai Navy SEALs. The boys, aged between 11 and 16, went missing with their 25-year-old coach after soccer practice on June 23, setting out on an adventure to explore the cave complex, reportedly for a picnic to celebrate one of their birthdays, before being trapped by rising waters from bursts of monsoon rain. …read more […]