Unlike other job offers at home it is very convenient because it does not require great physical effort, than to sit before a computer long enough to write your articles and daily (see top jobs and home).
The gain is proportional to the work done in this case to write as many articles you earn more in that month. Ideal seriously is to have an employee that will provide a large number of articles written every month, if you can guarantee you a certain number then it is ideal.
For who you will work and who pays
In general we buy already written articles for major sites both locally and abroad. Most articles of this kind are either diverse articles for blogs, news articles rewritten or type of product reviews or articles specially designed affiliate websites monetized through affiliate marketing.
To clarify for everybody, an article that is actually a rewritten news is actually an article that was written picking certain information related a story of the day. In general are rewritten news on large sites, and these articles will be published shortly on other smaller news sites. For example a small news site in Cluj rewrite the news about Cluj on a large site or ziare.com hotnews.ro gender and so on.
How profitable is this job offer
As mentioned above, the gain varies by workload. The ideal is to find year employer to require a large number of articles written each month. Generally it pays at least 5 lei a 250-300 word article, article of poor quality, for example a story rewritten. Depending on the complexity Articles gain may even reach 30 lei to 100 words, ie for an article of 300 words to win 90 lei. Anyway average is somewhere around 10 to 15 lei for an article of average quality.
Even if a win looks great at first, if you have a large number of articles written monthly gain may reach something very substantial. Also, if you are a connoisseur of foreign language and you can edit articles in another language already switching to a different level of winning, as you know just about everything is paid much better abroad than in the country.
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Handmade accessories is from ancient times until today because valuables are laying a great effort to achieve them. Nowadays they have become increasingly valuable since they made their presence felt in almost every field production machines.
Almost any object or thing in our lives now can be done using a single or multiple machines. However, even if these teeth to perfection, things handmade recovers ground especially in recent years.
Profitable types of handmade items
We can include many things, but the most popular and most expensive accessories are handmade jewelery. Their price can vary both by the complexity of their achievement but also used materials, we can make some of precious (both metal and semiprecious / precious).
Follow handmade garments that are more painstakingly made since are even bigger and last longer. This includes both bags, purses but also shirts, blouses, hats and other miscellaneous clothes. They can be Baskets and cut various textile materials either could crochet, the idea is to work the imagination.
Natural cosmetics can prepare for the many people fleeing from the trade because of the harmful substances contained. Cosmetics made from home are prepared from natural substances and are more popular but more expensive.
Scented candles are also taken into account because they are of very easy to make and with a little imagination you can achieve some special. Try to vary the colors and smells that to be attractive, color should always be based on smell.
You may also prepare various preserves, pickles, for example (see details here) or jams and marmalades (click for details) as those I wrote in previous articles.
What we have seen increasingly spectacular and very well may win is decorating bottles of drinks (wine, especially champagne) that will be gifted as gifts. A businessman certainly offers significant sums of money to impress their partners.
Handmade these activities is recommended if you have the patience, imagination and especially talent. Do not be discouraged if you do not first try out handmade items. Tied selling them to write an artic a near future that surely will be more than useful.
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You can earn significant sums by completing online surveys at home. Amounts vary won every poll in part, by the company that wants those online surveys and in particular by the company giving you your commission.
If you do not know English well I do not recommend you to register on polling foreign sites because you can suspend the account for poor quality of responses offered fixed before asking for payment.
At some sites gain is based on points they accumulate for each completed questionnaire. For example for a brief questionnaire that takes less than 3 minutes receive 30 points while for a very long questionnaire over 30 minutes get over 150 points.
Most companies that called the service they want to see people react to certain advertising campaigns organized in the future or future products. Payment may be requested when you have accumulated a certain number of points, and this can be done by several methods including bank transfer.
I honestly do not know how paid surveys are recommended because I never participated in it. What is clear is that it is an activity in which you can earn money from home without much effort. It seems a good source of passive income considering that most online surveys requires no effort.
The Ubisoft share fell more than 11% Friday at the Paris Stock Exchange, propelled by an increase in the profitability targets of the video game publisher for the 2016-2017 fiscal year.
At 10:40 am (5:40 am, Montreal time), the stock rose 11.40% to 32.34 euros, in a market down 0.67%.
Ubisoft publishes a "good performance", with a turnover in the first half "significantly higher than our expectation and consensus," said broker Gilbert Dupont.
The "performance of digital sales (...) had a direct impact on the growth of the gross margin of the group," he also noted. "The results in the first half are above expectations," said a Paris analyst.
Ubisoft reduced its net loss to 66.1 million euros in the first half of its staggered fiscal year, against 75.2 million a year earlier, during a period without major game launches, concentrated towards the end of the year, year.
The group also released Thursday evening sales of 281.4 million euros over the half-year, up 36%. Gross margin reached 80.5% of sales in the first half, down from 74.4% a year earlier.
After an encouraging first half in terms of profitability, the group increased its forecast of operating income (non-IFRS) for the full year 2016/17 from 230 to 250 million euros, compared with 230 million originally targeted.
The group, on the other hand, lowered its sales target between 1.610 and 1.670 billion euros, compared to approximately 1.7 billion originally planned. For Gilbert Dupont, the reduction of this objective is "compensated by the improvement of the profitability".
The evolution of technologies drives the needs and expectations of 30- to 40-year-olds in wealth management services to new horizons: online services, robot advisors, e-mail communication. Still, the manager in person still has his place.
Students want to be robot advisors
Robot advisors are becoming more and more popular in the United States. In Canada, these fully automated services are not yet legal, although similar services, supervised by real estate portfolio managers, have begun to grow.
And young people, attracted by the technological aspect and the ease with which they can access their information, tend to go towards these services. Many students would go to robot advisors for these reasons.
The new requiements
The model of advisors who move home to talk about placements is less popular among young people. Wealth management firms have therefore begun to change the means they use to communicate with their clients. Several of them have updated the interface of their website.
Today, the requirements are probably no longer the same. We may be more in an instant generation. If customers have questions, for example, they are more tempted to send an email. Speed of communication also becomes crucial.
Generation of the compromise
At the age of 30 or 40, many people start investing. Under 35s are only 34% to invest in investment funds. Between 35 and 44, on the other hand, half of the people invest.
At the same time, the younger generations give more room to the family, and less to the long hours worked. People want to work less. So they have more time to manage their finances. Financial institutions are making efforts to attract them and offer ever more diversified products.
Financial professions
Today, the Internet is overflowing with financial information. People are also very educated. An engineer, for example, could easily find, dissect and understand equations used in finance.
This means that 30- to 40-year-old clients are less likely to give their advisors a blank check. They often form an opinion on investment themselves.
A manager must now more than ever be able to answer his client's questions because he is asked more than before.
The advisor to younger people
Online technologies are attractive to younger people. Still, he feels that the investment advisor and face-to-face meetings are always relevant.
According to him, it is difficult to bypass the expertise of a manager because he has the experience of working with people, knows how to ask the right questions and can interpret their needs.
To develop an investment policy, a strategy, you have to understand the limits of the investor, his tolerance for risk, his needs and that, it does very well from a distance.
Wealth management is also important
Wealth management includes investment management, but also succession planning, legal and tax advice and insurance, among others.
It takes specific advice. This is especially so since the period of the thirties and forties is usually accompanied by important decisions: spouse, house, family. At that point, tax issues, for example, become very important. It's not information that can be taken on the Internet.
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The daily life in a blended family is full of challenges. Heritage management can easily be forgotten in the hubbub. This neglect, however, could bring its share of problems in case of misfortune.
Ann Newmar and her new partner have been a couple for two years. She has three children of 11, 16 and 8 and has two children of 13 and 14 years. They are all in shared custody. The spouses agreed to share current expenses.
To accommodate all members of this large family, the couple recently enlarged the house, owned by Mrs. Newmar. "For him, the money invested in the work is the same as in a rent," she says. He does not expect anything in return. "
Common-law partners, they do not have a common life agreement. "I'd like to marry him, but he does not want for now," says Mrs. Newmar, laughing. It must be said that our relationship is recent. Except that since they have been in a couple for less than three years, they could lose benefits.
If one of the two dies, the other can not receive the surviving spouse's pension from the Québec Pension Plan, for example. With a contract, they could benefit. This would also clarify the division of assets in the event of separation.
Ms. Newmar updated her will as a result of her divorce. She has not done it since the beginning of her new relationship. "The people I named in my will to care for my children know how important this man and his children are to me," said Ms. Newmar. I do not think they would oust them manu militari. In addition, my spouse would be able to find accommodation somewhere. Maybe we put a little head in the sand, we do not really talk about it. "
What consulted experts recommend?
Indeed, experts consulted recommend putting everything in writing to avoid problems. These are the kinds of cases that are often found in mediation. Appointees may charge rent, for example. If not, will he have to pay taxes and maintenance in the meantime? Better clarify all that.
The cohabitation agreement and the will could also provide a right of first refusal for the spouse to purchase the house, adds Newmar. "The couple could take life insurance on the head of madam for the benefit of his spouse so that he can buy it," he notes. So he could continue to live with his children.
Mrs Newmar's spouse would also have an interest in making his will. If he dies without having done so, his minor children will inherit. So their mother will take care of the inheritance. The new spouse will end up negotiating with ex. I hope their relationship is good because it could get faster!
In order for her children to miss nothing if she died, Ms. Newmar took out a life insurance policy to cover her debts. Another will also be paid to the father so that he can support themselves.
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Bank of America on Friday announced solid annual earnings, due to higher interest rates and an increase in consumer lending, but its business grew less than expected.
Net profit in 2016 jumped 13% year-on-year to $ 16.2 billion, particularly marked by a take-off of 46.8% to 4.34 billion in the fourth quarter.
This performance resulted in adjusted earnings per share, a benchmark in North America of $ 1.50 over the year and 40 cents over the last three months, compared with $ 1.47 and 38 cents respectively.
Bank of America revenues rose very slightly
Revenues, on the other hand, rose very slightly by 0.89% to $ 83.70 billion over the year and by 2.1% to $ 20 billion in the fourth quarter. Investors anticipated $ 84.98 billion and $ 20.85 billion, respectively, due to runaway financial markets after Donald Trump's victory in the November 8 presidential election.
On Wall Street, Bank of America, which had gained 35% since then, declined from 0.17% to 22.88 dollars at around 7.25 am in the electronic exchanges prior to the opening of the session, reflecting somewhat Disappointment of investors.
While revenues from consumer loans increased as expected after the institution had passed on the interest rate hikes carried out in December by the central bank (Fed), revenues from market activities were not as strong Expectations.
Sales of brokerage increased by only 11% in the fourth quarter, while CEO Brian Moynihan said recently that the increase should turn to around 15%.
In detail, revenues from brokerage of "fixed revenues" (bonds, commodities, currencies) rose by only 12% and financial securities by only 7%.
Positive signals for 2017
The bank nevertheless sent positive signals for 2017, while the Trump government is preparing to take over the reins of power on 20 January.
"If the recent rate hike occurred too late to boost fourth-quarter results, we expect higher earnings growth in the first quarter of 2017," said CFO Paul Donofrio, quoted in the press release.
The Fed has suggested that it could proceed with three interest rate increases this year, while the Trump administration promises deregulation of the financial sector, massive rate cuts and large infrastructure investments. All these factors are likely to boost the profits of banks, experts say.
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Retail sales rose 0.6% in the United States in December, compared with an increase of 0.2% in November.
The Commerce Department said on Friday that car sales jumped 2.4% in December, the largest gain since April. Sales of gas stations improved 2%. Retail sales remained essentially unchanged with the exception of these two items.
Online retailers, home improvement centers, furniture stores and sporting goods retailers performed better in December. Consumer spending accounts for 70% of US economic activity. Also gasoline station sales improved 2% last month.
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The three biggest US banks on Friday announced big profits for 2016, spurred by the boom in financial markets after the surprise victory of Donald Trump on November 8.
JPMorgan Chase, the country's largest bank, posted a record profit of $ 27.73 billion, including $ 6.73 billion in the fourth quarter.
Bank of America earned $ 16.2 billion, including $ 4.34 billion in the last three months of the year (+ 46.8%).
US economy is booming since the US presidential election
"The US economy is gaining momentum," said Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, adding that the future presents opportunities to put in place measures to stimulate growth and create jobs.
The banking sector has been booming since the US presidential election, on hopes of easing financial regulation, which would augur a golden age for speculation, heavily framed by the outgoing administration via the Dodd-Frank law.
This optimism resulted in a surge in revenues generated by the brokerage of treasury bills and other bonds, commodities and currencies (FICC), whose turnover jumped 31% at JPMorgan and 11% At Bank of America.
"Since the US election, we've seen an increase in investor confidence," said Marianne Lake, JPMorgan's chief financial officer.
Donald Trump, who will take power on Jan. 20, has promised to dismantle the Dodd-Frank law, lower taxes altogether and have appointed Wall Street figures to key positions in the US economy including Steven Mnuchin, "Goldman Boy" to head the Treasury.
The KBW, index stock market banking on Wall Street, has gained 23% since November 8.
"It is still too early to determine the impact that the change of administration in Washington will have on the regulatory environment," Paul Donofrio, chief financial officer of Bank of America, With journalists.
The US financial sector also received a boost from the central bank (Fed), which raised its key interest rate in December and suggested additional movements this year.
High interest rates are positive for banks because they can pass on to consumers by increasing the cost of their products (consumer loans and real estate loans, bank card and deposit fees ... ).
"If the recent rate hike came too late to boost fourth-quarter results, we expect higher earnings growth in the first quarter of 2017," said Donofrio.
In the meantime, profit margins have begun to improve, in this case the net interest margin - the net differential between the borrowing rate and the investment rate of the money.
It increased to 2.87% in the fourth quarter against 2.82% three months earlier at the California bank Wells Fargo, which provides one in five mortgage lending in the United States.
These results show that "the future is bright" for banks, say analysts Evercore.
Banking scandals
The page of the scandals is far from being turned as evidenced by the 4.2% decline to $ 21.94 billion of Wells Fargo 's 2016 profits, mainly due to the fines and costs of the measures taken to settle the " Fictitious accounts created in the name, but without the knowledge of its clients.
The institution, whose largest shareholder is the billionaire Warren Buffett, opened two million fictitious accounts between 2011 and 2016 that allowed its employees to earn premiums related to the sale of products to customers.
The scandal that broke out in September highlighted the disrespectful practice of cross-selling, which means that if a customer has a current account, he has to open a savings account, a mortgage, a car loan, Insurance, investment products, etc.
The Department of Justice (DoJ) and the stock exchange gendarme, the SEC, each opened an investigation.
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The Mexican currency reached Tuesday its lowest low, the peso trading at 22 units for one dollar after a further depreciation of 1.59% in the day, according to Mexican bank Citibanamex.
The Mexican currency thus recorded its biggest drop since the election of the republican billionaire Donald Trump, who had unscrewed the currency of 7.64% the day after November 8.
Plunged into uncertainty just days after Trump's appointment as President of the United States, the currency of the second largest economy in Latin America had already declined by more than 3% against the dollar during the week The last.
The announcement by Ford of the cancellation of a project of plant in San Luis Potosi for a amount of 1.6 billion had in particular devalued the currency of 1.41%.
For the whole of 2016, the peso fell by 16.12% against the dollar, impacted by the fall in crude oil prices and the protectionist promises of Trump which undertook to renegotiate or even abolish trade agreements Linking it to Mexico to protect US jobs. Approximately 80% of Mexican exports go to the United States.
Great winner of globalization in the last century and now artisan of "new silk roads", China is self-proclaimed herald of free trade against the American insulationist Donald Trump, and intends to redraw in its own way Trade of the twenty-first century.
"We will not close the door to the world, but open it even more widely," Chinese President Xi Jinping said in November, just after the election of the American billionaire. It is the new antenna of Beijing: at the Economic Forum of Davos, Mr. Xi must defend Tuesday his vision of a "more inclusive globalization", encouraging "to put globalization in its right perspective".
A spade against Donald Trump, which promises to abandon the Transpacific Free Trade Agreement (TPP), to erect customs barriers with its neighbors and China and which chastises the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Facing him, the European Union and China "become the main international players defending the opening of trade", commented in December the former head of the WTO, Pascal Lamy. "But the words should be followed by reforms of opening," he insisted.
China, the world's biggest market power, is actually skeptical. Beijing is accused by the EU and the US of dumping, protectionist measures penalizing imported products and restricting access to foreign companies.
According to the Chinese authorities, 119 procedures were launched in 2016 by 27 countries against the commercial practices of the communist regime: a 37% increase over one year.
Silk roads opportunities for China
Admittedly, the second world economy is setting up "new silk roads" surrounding the Eurasian continent and promises investments in infrastructure in Central Asia to boost regional trade. China also wants to revive a free trade agreement (RCEP) linking it to Southeast Asia and the regional powers.
Nevertheless, in the opinion of experts, China defends its interests first, giving only reciprocity to the dropper. The "silk roads" provide opportunities for its surplus production (cement, steel) and reinforce its influence, said AFP Andrew Polk, an analyst at Medley Advisors.
"It is also a vision for 100 years, emblematic of Xi's determination to place China at the epicenter of the world" after the "humiliations" of past centuries, he judges.
But in the immediate future, "there is a big gap between the stated ambitions and the real financing", observes David Kelly, from China Policy. "Beijing pursues diplomatic goals with checks, more than a coherent trade policy." China also does not hesitate to use its trade as a retaliatory tool: imports of Norwegian salmon collapsed after the Nobel Peace Prize to dissident Liu Xiaobo.
In addition, a member of the WTO since 2001, "China is very strong to use multilateral instruments to its advantage", by "insisting on the letter", even if it means diverting "the spirit" of international institutions, notes Andrew Polk.
China remains a model of directed economy
Fueled by a massive trade surplus, "China's economy is structurally incompatible" with the role of "world trade leader", warned in a report Michael Pettis, a professor at Peking University.
The Asian giant remains "a model of directed economy": omnipresent public subsidies, giant state groups, control of capital ... against the canons of classical liberal thought. Impact: Beijing could "sweeten" the content of trade pacts.
Thus, the TPP wanted to be demanding on labor law, environmental standards or fair access to public tenders: "not the tea cup of China," says Polk. Conversely, the RCEP is "a very limited, old-fashioned trade agreement".
Pragmatic, China wants to boost its trade after their plunge of 2016 (-6.9% on January-November). The share of trade in its GDP fell from 66% in 2006 to 40.7% in 2015, according to the World Bank, but remains a crucial growth engine.
However, exporters suffer from the rising cost of the Chinese labor force, which pushes many manufacturing firms to relocate their production to Southeast Asia and to Ethiopia. Beijing is aiming "upmarket" towards higher value-added exports.
But ultimately, "it is unlikely that an American withdrawal from global governance will result in an orderly trading system where the epicenter will swing from Washington to Beijing," warns Mr. Pettis.
"We would go back to the situation before Bretton Woods (1945), with incessant commercial conflicts and political quarrels."
The American computer group Microsoft continues to strengthen in artificial intelligence with the acquisition announced Friday of the startup Montreal Maluuba, which specialized on the understanding of the language by the machines. The financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed.
Maluuba, based in Montreal, has "one of the most impressive research laboratories in the world" in terms of work on how machines can learn to understand natural language, says Harry Shum, who oversees the 'Artificial Intelligence and Microsoft Research, in a message announcing the acquisition on the group's website.
Maluuba's know-how "will help us to advance our strategy to democratize artificial intelligence and make it accessible and useful for everyone - consumers, businesses and developers," he adds.
Engineers and researchers from Maluuba will join the Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research division, which hopes to accelerate the development of software that allows computers to read, write and hold conversations in a natural way, like humans.
Microsoft announced at the same time that it would join a recognized artificial intelligence expert, the director of the Montreal Learning Algorithms Institute, Yoshua Bengio, advising Maluuba so far and now do the same with Microsoft.
Artificial intelligence is currently attracting considerable interest in the technology sector, which sees it as one of the most promising niches in the future. This is one of the axes of the strategy led by Satya Nadella, the general manager of Microsoft, to relaunch the group after its failure to take the turn of the mobile.
Wall Street climbed slightly in mid-session on Friday, driven by a strong financial sector after the reassuring annual results of large banks and equating US indicators in a half-tone: the Dow Jones was taking 0.07% and NASDAQ 0, 61%.
By midday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average star index advanced 13.14 points to 19,904.14 points and the NASDAQ, dominated by technological 33.81 points to 5581.29 points. The S & P 500 index increased by 5.93 points, or 0.26%, to 2276.37 points. In Toronto, the TSX gained 87.44 points, or 0.57%, at 15,505.60 points.
The publication of the results of three major US banks was particularly expected as they kick off the results season and the pulse of a sector that has risen sharply since the election of Donald Trump on November 8.
"In the investor appeals that followed, bank executives - JPMorgan, Bank of America and Wells Fargo - were rather optimistic for the years to come," said Karl Haeling of Landesbank Baden-Württenberg.
In detail, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, which is a member of the Dow Jones, both reported annual earnings in 2016 above analyst expectations, boosted by a very good fourth quarter and their stocks rose by 0, 92% to 23.13 dollars and 0.82% to 86.95 dollars.
Wells Fargo, whose profits were affected by the business of fictitious accounts created in the name but without the knowledge of its clients, managed to take 2.42% to 55.82 dollars. On the indicators front, retail sales in December, a crucial month for US consumption, rose, but less than forecast by analysts.
"The dynamism of vehicle sales has been erased by the weakness of certain categories of leisure," explained Michael Gapen of Barclays in a note to his customers.
The morale of US households fell slightly in January and was not as good as expected, according to the University of Michigan's first estimate.
Producer prices, which have an influence on inflation, rose as expected in December and inventories of manufacturing and distribution firms rose 0.7% in November. After a good start, Wall Street seemed to slow down a little, with the NASDAQ remaining at a record level but the S & P500 and the Dow Jones erasing some gains.
"I think it's partly because we're approaching a three-day weekend and investors are wait-and-see," Haeling said. The US markets will be closed on Monday, this day being a holiday in the United States to celebrate the birth of Martin Luther King.
Among other values, online radio Pandora Media jumped 6.96% to 12.84 dollars. It announced on Thursday evening a 7% reduction in its workforce in the United States (excluding its subsidiary Ticketfly) and indicated that it expected to exceed its forecasts of turnover and operating profit in the fourth quarter.
The oil group Anadarko, which announced Thursday evening the sale for $ 2.3 billion of assets in the oil and gas production basin of Eagle Ford, Texas, its competitor Sanchez Energy and the Investment company Blackstone, conceded 0.24% to 71.32 dollars.
The BlackRock investment fund, whose profit in the last quarter exceeded the expectations of analysts took 0.89% to 381.66 dollars.
The bond market fell, yielding 10-year Treasury bills rising to 2.410% against 2.358% Thursday night and the 30-year bonds to 3.008%, against 2.961% previously.
A new Bank of Canada survey reveals that more companies expect to benefit from the strong post-election growth they expect in the United States.
The most recent "Business Outlook Survey" of the central bank, however, indicates that when it comes to exports, several companies are concerned about the uncertainty surrounding the possibility of a protectionist rise in the United States.
The survey says that due to this uncertainty, few companies have considered the potential impacts of the results of the US election on their sales prospects.
Still, companies surveyed between mid-November and early December were optimistic about some of the decisions the new Trump administration could take, including changes in energy policies, as well as increases in military and infrastructure spending .
Overall, businesses expect sales growth to grow faster over the next 12 months, driven by continued strength in the service sector, housing market activity and tourism.
The survey also reveals an upturn in investment intentions over the next year, primarily in central and eastern Canada, as well as improved hiring intentions in most sectors and regions.
If 2011 deliveries of laptops and desktops passed 360 million units worldwide last year dropped to below 270 million units, IDC data show and Gartner, quoted by AFP. Although the PC industry technological advances were made, they were not sufficient to lead the market plus. Another aspect is that many are satisfied with what can a smartphone, so do not see the need to take his PC.
Gartner says were shipped 269.7 million units, while IDC estimated 260 million in 2016. The market research firm says first decrease was 6.2% compared to 2015, and the second indicates 5.7 %.
Is the lowest value in eight years for the PC market where the best years were 2010 and 2011 when it passed 350 million units.
The industry has not been idle: they appeared several models 2 in 1 (with detachable screen), laptops have become thinner and lighter, and the battery life has increased greatly. This was not enough to end the decline.
Chapter manufacturers, Lenovo is in first place with 20.7% (according to Gartner) and 21.3% (IDC), and second place is occupied by HP (19.4% to 20.9% Gartner and IDC). Third- and fourth and fifth positions are occupied by Dell (14.6% / 15.7%), Asus (7.6% / 7.4%) and Mac (6.9% / 7.1%).
Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba plans to open a logistics center in Bulgaria, say representatives of the authorities, quoted by Xinhua news agency. Alibaba is famous for huge shopping day of Singles' Day and is controversial for the huge volume of counterfeit goods which are sold through its platforms.
Representatives of companies Alibaba Group, GS-Solar Group Company and GoldPoly met with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov Wednesday to discuss investment opportunities.
Alibaba owns the largest trading platforms in Asia and wants to expand globally, wanting to become a force in Europe. If they open a center in Bulgaria, supplies and food from this region will reach international markets.
The head of Alibaba, Jack Ma, met recently with Donald Trump and promised to help create one million new jobs in the US by bringing a large number of small companies on its platform for shopping, companies that create jobs work from the sale of American products to China and Southeast Asia through Alibaba.
Two Microsoft employees gave the company to court, claiming that he suffers from a severe form of post-traumatic stress syndrome because that part of the job description, had to watch many videos in which children were abused in ways unimaginable. The two worked as moderators and had to watch videos and see photos that were highlighted by software, on their task is to announce the child protection authorities in the US. They say Microsoft has not offered appropriate psychological support for a job so traumatic.
What they had to do at their job?
Henry and Greg Soto worked Blauert division of Microsoft Online Safety Team and as part of the job, they had to follow over time thousands of clips and photos with incredibly harsh abuse against children. Further alerted US National Center for Missing authority and Exploited Children who take cases to solve them. Job sites were so useful, but with serious consequences for those who do.
The two say that before were not prepared by the company for what will follow, and following the violent scenes which had to follow them left with serious psychiatric disorders were panic attacks, hallucinations and suffering from depression.
Signaling the authorities' abuses against children, the two helped save many children, but the price paid was high. Even if Microsoft praised the work of the two, in the complaint filed says that Microsoft, even if it was a program of "wellness" for employees who must follow such scenes, this program was ineffective and insufficient, so that the two employees have been helped to understand how serious the disease nor pass it well.
The lawyer for one of the employees said that he was forced to watch scenes of incredible hardness and sexual abuse indescribable. "Many people simply can not imagine what Soto had to watch every day and most people can not understand how horrible and inhuman they can be the worst people in the world," said the lawyer.
Microsoft defends from these accusations
Microsoft does not agree with the assertions in the complaint and take action so says the psychological effect on eg staff have to watch such images to be minimal. Girls are blurred, the resolution is very low, the images and the videos can be seen on the small size and the sound is separate image.
The company also says employees in these positions are counseled and must have at least once a month a one-to-one meeting with a specialist.
This episode shows that the great technology companies, so envied by a lot of people there and appalling jobs for employees. Even if these jobs saves lives, they are harmful to the health of employees.
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The retailer Amazon announced that by mid-2018 will increase by 100,000 herds in the US where it will reach 280,000 people. The announcement comes in the context in which Donald Trump pushing big US companies to make new investments internally.
Amazon had 30,000 employees in the US in 2011, now stands at 180,000 and says it will add 100,000 by mid 2018. Now Amazon has 300,000 employees worldwide.
The company says it is currently working to Amazon 10,000 veterans, and the company was committed to qualify and other 25,000 employees in five years.
The company says it will hire people from all segments of society and with various qualifications. Amazon is building distribution centers in several US states
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, who is also patron to the Washington Post, is "at odds" with Trump. Bezos has often criticized him on Trump, while he said Bezos uses newspaper as political tool against it.
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Australia has recorded a new increase in GDP in the second quarter, a result that allows the continent to end a quarter century of uninterrupted economic growth, writes AFP.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday that the economy grew by 0.5% during April-June, which means in-digit annualized growth of 3.3%. Australia has never experienced a recession in 1991, which is one of the best performances recorded by the developed economies.
25 years of uninterrupted economic expansion
"It's official: Australia recorded 25 years of uninterrupted economic expansion," said Finance Minister Scott Morrison. "This growth is a tribute to all Australians who work or have created a company," he added.
In the first quarter, the country's economy grew by 1%, according to figures corrected, thanks to exports and household consumption. But the increase was more modest in the second quarter, due to less export performance, which wiped out 0.2 percent growth. The figure was offset by an increase in public investment by 15.5% from one quarter to another.
Paul Dales, economist at Capital Economics, welcomed a "good result" which should reduce pressure in favor of further reducing the interest intervention. Australian central bank (RBA) kept interest intervention Monday at a historical low of 1.50%, having reduced it twice in four months in a bid to sustain growth in non-mining sectors in a context of low inflation.
Faced with slow end of the golden age of mining, the Australian economy is now seeking new engines of growth.
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Hackers can spy remotely using web cameras and can shoot their own real-time user activity from their homes, warn experts from Bitdefender.
They found a vulnerability in a popular webcam model designed for families and is equipped among other things with motion sensors and sound, microphone and speakers, a set of lullabies for babies and sensors for temperature / humidity. This can be used both for surveillance home and to care for a child.
"During the analysis, scientists have identified numerous deficiencies related to security such as: open hotspot that does not require password; identification data (username and password) network unsecure mobile app transmitted by the camera; data flowing between the application device and the server without being encrypted, "announces the Bitdefender.
Cybercriminals could speculate these vulnerabilities and use the application that controls the camera with the same rights as its rightful owner. Hackers can activate the microphone, speaker or room, children gain access to the room and broadcast live audio and video over the Internet.
Mirai cyber attack
A large cyber attack, called Mirai, was using smart devices and led to blocking the activity of services such as Twitter, Spotify, The New York Times, Reddit, Yelp, Box, Pinterest and Paypal through overuse Domain Name System (DNS ), a crucial component of digital infrastructure.
Health experts recommend users to study the privacy before you buy a device smart housing, finding answers to questions like "How to connect to the Internet?", "What data access?", "Where stores data and under what circumstances? "etc. and, not least, reading the device manufacturer's declaration related to the type of information collected and their impact on the right to privacy.
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