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Sales Were Up, Foot Traffic Was Too — But Lowe’s Disappointed Investors

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housing market and the increasing transition of the millennial generation into home ownership mode. The chain announced it will be pouring more capital back into its workforce via bonuses and an improved benefits package following U.S. Some of that improvement, however, may be costly in a way activist investors don’t like to see.

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AI Will Put 10 Million Jobs At High Risk — More Than Were Eliminated By The Great Recession

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Innovation in microprocessors — particularly Nvidia’s graphic processing units (GPUs) — have played a large role. Khosla Ventures also backed Cafe X Technologies in Q1’17, alongside The Thiel Foundation, Felicis Ventures, and Social Capital. How did we get here? The concept of artificial intelligence was introduced in the 1950s.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

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Ninety-two million millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” A host of startups have emerged to capitalize on this trend. Bankrate found 83% of millennials don’t think they’ll ever retire: they simply “don’t think they’ll have the money” to do so.).

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