With current economic uncertainty, investors and citizens are asking whether the country will get affected by the looming global financial distress. Latest report by Business Insider shows that despites the turbulence, US economy has grown by 3.7 percent in the second quarter of 2015, and the unemployment rate fell to 5.3 percent this year compared to 6.2 percent last year.
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Three Steps to Take at the End of your Student Loan Grace Period
Grace period is the time given by the government and other agencies to the student before any loan repayment needs to be done. This period was given purposely to help all students to settle down on and being financially stable before they make another commitment. During this grace period, students need to plan well on how they can tackle the debt as it will help the student to still be financially stable when they start paying the debt.
Google Classroom adds a Chrome extension for teacher-student website sharing
Today, Google announced at its San Francisco office a new feature for their Google Classroom - a Chrome extension. The new feature will allow teachers to share website with their student eliminating the need for teachers to pass the URL to students for them to click on.
Google Gets a New Logo
After the restructuring announcement made by Google earlier this month to introduce Alphabet, Google today unveils their new logo to the world. Still keeping their old word mark type of logo, Google's new logo feature a softer color tone and is made of sans-serif typeface.
Smart watch war: Huawei versus Apple Watch
Make way for the arrival of Huawei Watch on September 17 at Best Buy, GetHuawei.com, Amazon and Google Store in the U.S. The price starts at $349, and pre-orders begin September 2.
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Seven technology giants; Google, Netflix, Mozilla, Microsoft, Cisco, Intel and Amazon collaborate to work on with an open source video format that would abolish video plugins soon.
Citigroup announced that they are planning to rebuild its equity unit soon. The move is seen as a bold action by the bank considering current economic situation and the "Volcker rule" regulation which limits banks investment in such funds.
The latest projects indicating job gains in August are giving a much wider scope for US Fed rate hike speculation. According to research firms, non-farm payrolls were up 220,000 in August from 215,000 in July. Unemployment rate is also at 5.2 percent indicating near seven-and-a-half-year low.
BioWare has not failed to this day, in terms of making only the best game possible, namely Dragon Age: Inquisition. Despite the leak of the newest DLC, the situation is well under control, and even took the liberty of explaining the story behind said content.
Leaked photos of the BlackBerry's first Android-powered smartphone, Blackberry Venice said to confirm its unique sliding QWERTY keyboard. The device is rumored to run on Android Marshmallow and includes 18MP camera ,3GB RAM and more.
‘Captain Marvel’ may feature mixed martial artist and actress Ronda Rousey as the newest female superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). She openly campaigned to get the much coveted role. Director and comic book expert Kevin Smith expressed his support for her.
‘The Lost City of Z’ co-stars Robert Pattinson and Charlie Hunnam are filming on-location in Northern Ireland. Both Hollywood A-listers will then move on to shoot in Colombia for September and October for the upcoming action-adventure biographical film based on the voyage of Col. Percy Fawcett.
‘Ghostbusters’ will feature Chris Hemsworth as the receptionist Kevin in director Paul Feig’s female-led reboot starring Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy. The Australian actor previously passed on the character as it was too small a role for him.
Jason Momoa is set to star in DC's grittier and darker take on Aquaman, and has been preparing for his character's appearances in various DC films by training with Mada Abdelhamid. Director James Wan also recently hinted about monsters being included in the upcoming film.
