Harvard Biz Review When Start-ups Should (and Shouldn’t) Partner with Industry Leaders

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Avvisi ai sindacati e indennizzi. All’estero si licenzia così

In Cina il datore di lavoro dà un preavviso di 30 giorni. Negli Stati Uniti conviene avere un contratto a termine perché il recesso è inibito fino a scadenza Continua

La moneta sparisce in tutto il mondo: crescita senza fine per i pagamenti senza contanti

Anche la Apple si prepara a sbarcare in grande stile nel mondo dei pagamenti mobili: insieme all’iPhone6 ha lanciato anche la piattaforma Apple Pay che permetterà di pagare semplicemente via telefonino. Continue

Si sblocca il credito bancario alle startup: 91 milioni di euro

Boom di prestiti dalle banche, grazie al Fondo di Garanzia per le Pmi. Ecco tutti i dati, regione per regione, dal ministero dello Sviluppo economico Continue

Why Apple Pay might succeed where Google, PayPal, and Visa have failed

Apple may be in the process of creating a better climate for mobile payments to succeed in the United States. Continue

Education at a glance 2014. Key Findings

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Free markets killed capitalism: Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan, Wal-Mart, Amazon and the 1 percent’s sick triumph over us all

Barry C. Lynn is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and the author of two important books, “End of the Line” and ”Cornered,” the latter of which describes the dramatic return of monopoly to the American landscape. continue

3 Questions Executives Should Ask Front-Line Workers – Douglas A. Wilson – Harvard Business Review

The higher up you go in an organization, the harder it is to stay in touch with what’s really happening on the front lines. And the bad news—if you hear it at all—is presented only in the best possible light. continue

Why America’s Essentials Are Getting More Expensive While Its Toys Are Getting Cheap

In the last ten years, what’s gotten more expensive? And what’s gotten less expensive?

Here’s a fascinating snapshot of the last decade in American prices…

What Apple’s future of mobile payments on the iPhone could look like

Apple is working on its own mobile payments solution, per multiple reports from places like The Wall Street Journal. Exactly how the company plans to implement such a service remains to be seen.

China’s economy could overtake the U.S.’s this year is only part of the story

There are a number of reports around Wednesday (here and here) that China’s economy, by one measure at least, is likely to surpass the U.S. in size sometime this year.

Capitalism simply isn’t working and here are the reasons why | Will Hutton | The Observer

Suddenly, there is a new economist making waves – and he is not on the right. At the conference of the Institute of New Economic Thinking in Toronto last week, Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century got at least one mention at every session I attended. You have to go back to the 1970s and Milton Friedman for a single economist to have had such an impact.

Facebook Is Reportedly Near Approval For E-Money Service In Ireland

Facebook wants to be more than a social network — it is planning to facilitate financial services in the form of electronic money and remittances, the Financial Times reports (as spotted first by Benedict Evans).

Balzello equo compenso, la battaglia sui rincari hi-tech alla stretta finale

Sull’equo compenso la partita, ora sottotraccia, rischia di diventare davvero spinosa, anche a livello politico. Del resto, agli inizi di febbraio, due senatori renziani del Pd, Andrea Marcucci e Isabella de Monte, erano usciti allo scoperto: «L’Italia – dichiarava Marcucci – ha bisogno di più digitale a prezzi accessibili, non dell’aumento ingiustificato di balzelli a fondo perduto».

These Two Charts Will Make You See The Stock Market In Totally Different Ways

We recently posted the latest slide deck from JPMorgan Asset Management, which has a number of charts relating to both the market and the economy. It’s a useful thing to flip through as Q2 gets under way.

The Dow hit bottom 5 years ago. How much you would’ve made if you had invested then

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PayPal Makes Changes To Support Crowdfunding

PayPal has gotten itself some bad press over crowdfunding, in particular for withholding funds certain companies need to develop their projects. Now, the payments site reveals that it has put changes in place to address those problems.

Dal falso in bilancio alle licenze, alla banche: le richieste della Finanza contro la corruzione

ROMA – Rimettere mano al reato del falso in bilancio aggravando le sanzioni nei casi di reati contro la pubblica amministrazione, istituire una banca dati per la vendita delle licenze commerciali, creare meccanismi di allerta automatica tra istituti bancari e guardia di finanza nei casi di operazioni condotte nei paradisi fiscali.

Polimi: giro d’affari da 1,9 miliardi per il New Internet italiano

Mercato media in calo del 5%. Ma la componente “online” balza in avanti del 18% grazie a smartphone, video, social network e app. E si crescerà ancora. Rangone: “Serve un cambiamento culturale-organizzativo”

ePayment, (lungo) addio ai contanti

Il progetto di legge vuole portare il limite a 500 euro per i pagamenti in moneta e limitare le cifre prelevabili al mese, fino ai 3 mila nel 2018