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Entrepreneur Empower Your Team to Be More Productive with This Intuitive Tool Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:16:00 GMT Whether you're a team of two or 2,000, monday.com can help your business cultivate a transparent and collaborative environment. more info...

Fast Company Japan will try to hack its citizens’ routers and webcams in the name of cybersecurity Wed, 30 Jan 2019 06:27:13 GMT The hacking program is an initiative aimed at increasing cybersecurity in Japan before the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo next year. The Japanese government has announced that beginning next month it will actively try to hack into its citizens’ internet-connected devices in their homes, reports NHK . Starting in February, the country’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology will use default passwords and password dictionaries and randomly try to infiltrate 200 million devices in homes across Japan, starting with routers and webcams, before moving on to other smart home “internet of things” devices. Read Full Story more info...

Fast Company This guy holds the Guinness World Record for collecting spreadsheets Ariel Fischman’s office shelves are a veritable museum devoted to the era of VisiCalc, Lotus 1-2-3, Multiplan, and other products that once duked it out for number-crunching supremacy. In a world in which a 1976 Apple-1 computer can fetch $375,000 at auction , it’s not exactly news that people appreciate the value of our technological heritage. But Ariel Fischman, a financial advisor in Mexico City, isn’t just another collector of vintage PCs. Fischman collects spreadsheet software—boxes full of disks, manuals, and other accoutrements that were standard fare in every office until we started downloading most of our apps. It’s a surprisingly rich hobby, given that the 1980s and early 1990s saw booming competition among software giants, startups, and even unexpected contenders such as Boeing (yes, the aircraft company). Read Full Story more info...

Entrepreneur Take the Stress Out of Invoicing with This Cloud-Based Software Hiveage Invoicing can save the average small business dozens of hours per month. more info...

Fast Company From Cisco to Lego: The secrets to unlocking organizational creativity In Davos, Switzerland, four business leaders discussed the need for creativity in today’s changing work environment. It’s easy to say that creativity is an essential part of an organization, but fostering it is another thing entirely. Friday morning, four business leaders sat down in Davos, Switzerland, and discussed just that. Read Full Story more info...

Fast Company Facebook should never have been allowed to buy Instagram, Silicon Valley rep says Statements from Ro Khanna come on news that Facebook intends to more tightly integrate its Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp apps. Following news today that Facebook intends to more tightly integrate Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, Congressman Ro Khanna (D-California) says the government was asleep at the switch when it failed to stop Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram in 2012. The Congressman believes the merger constituted antitrust back then, as it does now. Read Full Story more info...

Fast Company Zuckerberg in WSJ op-ed: Facebook doesn’t sell your data! The Facebook CEO is trying to clear up some misperceptions about the social network’s business model as data regulation looms on the horizon. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal late Thursday to explain his company’s business model and address some misconceptions he feels people have about his company . Read Full Story more info...

Entrepreneur The 4 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When They Begin to Make 'Real' Money As the saying goes, more money, more problems. more info...

Fast Company Viacom spent $340 million on Pluto TV to get into free streaming The ad-supported streaming service has 12 million active users. Viacom is buying its way into the ad-supported streaming video business by acquiring Pluto TV in a $340 million cash deal, B&C reports . Read Full Story more info...

Fast Company Why MLK’s vision of love as a moral imperative still matters King focused on the role of love as key to building healthy communities and ways in which love can and should be at the center of our social interactions. Despite Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream, the United States remains divided by issues of race and racism , economic inequality as well as unequal access to justice . These issues are stopping the country from developing into the kind of society that he fought for during his years as a civil rights activist. Read Full Story more info...