What is scarring the bottom of the Caspian Sea?

Satellite images beamed back by Nasa’s Landsat 8 satellite revealed strange marks on the bottom of the Caspian Sea around the Tyuleniy Archipelago in Kazakhstan (pictured).

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Apple says the average iPhone is unlocked 80 times a day

Apple on Friday divulged a fascinating iPhone statistic: owners unlock their device, on average, 80 times a day. The company disclosed the figure during a press briefing centered on the man

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How the biometrics market is entering the evolving IoT ecosystem – Help Net Security

By 2021, the biometrics market will shift its revenue focus, moving away from the governmental sector to the consumer and banking sectors.

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Under Armour: From Apparel-Only To Health And Wellness

By reimagining its business model, retail process, and shopper engagement, Under Armour has solidified itself as a power player.

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Alibaba advances: How China is using fintech to take control of global trade

Author and fintech expert Haydn Shaughnessy highlights bi-lateral trade corridors China’s opening with India and Africa.

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Venezuela declares a 2-day workweek because of dire energy shortages

Why can’t the country with the world’s biggest oil reserves keep the lights on?

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Social Online Data Use In Identity Verification | PYMNTS.com

Socure reveals a predictive model with a 98.8 percent success rate in using online and social data to validate consumers’ digital identity.

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Why Credit Cards With Chips Are Still Not Safe From Fraud

Thieves are still able to steal information from cards’ magnetic strips.

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Why Efforts to Speed EMV Payments Won’t Have Much Impact

Visa’s new plan to help merchants speed checkout times for EMV chip payments sounds good, in theory. But in reality, it isn’t likely to have much immediate impact on either speeding EMV adoption or enhancing the user experience.

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Just 3 Characteristics Separate Successful Entrepreneurs From the Failures

A great idea doesn’t mean a whole lot in the world of business with hard work, patience and open-mindedness.

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Let me share a story with you that my friend and mentor Joe Polish, shared with me when I was first getting started out.

Joe started out in the carpet cleaning business and it was failing miserably. He was dead broke and living off his credit cards and then something happened that changed the course of his future. One of his friends from high school invited him on a boating trip where his dad, a multimillionaire real estate investor would be coming along. Joe thought he might be able to pick his friend’s dad’s brain. So he asked him, “What business would you suggest I go into where I could make a lot of money and turn my situation around?”

So the real estate investor responded and asked, “Are there people in your industry making money?”

Joe replied, “Yes” and the real estate investor responded by saying, “Then there is nothing wrong with your business. There is something wrong with you.”

After that conversation Joe buckled down and turned around his business, went on to make millions in the carpet cleaning industry and started one of the highest level masterminds in the world for direct marketers, called Genius Network. Read more: click image or title.

 

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