Some quick links to start your Friday. How LinkedIn continues to make money … Sprint is telling employees to go paperless and stop printing at work … The average retirement package for a top CEO is ridiculous … China is now letting families have more than one child … The best electric cars on the road today … Where the U.S. sent $35 billion in foreign aid last year … The importance of social media marketing … Quotes to help you face down your fears … The hardest questions asked by Apple in job interviews … Behind the scenes of the company that makes Smarties.
NEWS
- Consumers have a lot of complaints about their credit cards, especially when it comes to the late fees they are charged. Complaints regarding credit cards account for about 11% of all complaints filed with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
- An ugly battle between former partners who used to work at the same collection agency, but ended up running firms competing against one another.
- Agencies looking for talent may want to consider opening an office in Atlantic City, N.J. The city is chock full of people who used to work in sales and customer service jobs at casinos and are now unemployed. One call center is taking advantage of that and recently opened a 330-seat center in an office that used to be home to a casino parking garage.
The business of Halloween
America’s obsession with water
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