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Cyber Attacks on U.S. Firms, Gov't on the Rise in 2014

The year 2014 will be remembered for issues like ISIS, Ebola and perhaps the midterm elections. Businesses and technology companies will remember the sharp rise this year in serious cyber attacks against high-profile U.S. retailers, Internet companies, utilities, as well as government agencies and contractors. So reports The Heritage Foundation.

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Black Friday Disappoints Despite Lower Gas Prices

With the nation's economy seeming to finally crawl its way out of recession after nearly six years; the unemployment needle dipping below 6%; and, most significantly, gasoline prices declining since the summer, Black Friday was predicted to put retailers into the black this season. So reports Business Insider.

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A Cyber Security Lexicon for the Millennium

Brian E. Finch, a partner at a leading law firm where he specializes in cyber security issues, has come up with a clever list of cyber terms he feels may find themselves in the dictionary at some point. After all, he reasons, if "selfie" and "ginormous" can become part of our lexicon, why not "Finch's Law" and other terms he has coined to denote the serious and long-lasting effects that cyber security is having on our businesses and our society. So reports Fox Business.

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Making a Quantum Career Leap

How do you make a quantum leap in your career path? An accomplished media executive who made a conscious choice to not get an advanced degree right after college – the one she'd been preparing for academically and psychologically throughout her high school and college years, explains in a recent LinkedIn post.

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Is It Time to Go Back to College?

It's a question we hear often from staffers of different ages and at varying stages of their careers. Some of us know people who have started businesses that don't seem to be catching on and ask themselves the same thing. Indeed, many of us have questioned whether we should quit our jobs and get another degree that could augment, or change the direction of, the career path we're on.

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Corporate Terror: How ISIS Adopted a Time-Honored Business Model for Success

Even Americans who have no interest in the news media or geopolitics would be hard-pressed to know nothing of the so-called Islamic State, perhaps better known by its acronyms ISIS (Islamic State in Syria) or ISIL (Islamic State in the Levant). So reports BusinessWeek.

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How IBM Bolsters its Brand from Within

Technology monolith IBM, arguably one of the most successful and venerable brands in the world, has undertaken a program called "Employee Advocacy" to bolster its well-known brand and empower its workforce using the power of social media.

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Neutrality May Work for Switzerland, But Its a Different Story for the Internet

It's an issue that's been gathering steam since before President Obama took office, but now he seems to be making it a priority of his last two years in office. So reports the Economist.

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The Holiday Shopping Experience Continues to Evolve

It's not just Black Friday morphing into Black Thursday; or online shopping taking many consumers away from the in-store experience; or even customers paying for purchases with smart phones instead of credit cards. So reports Forbes.

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Why Are Family Dynamics Changing? (Hint: It's the Economy, Stupid)

That unflattering meme may have cost a recession-era president his job in the early 1990's, but it may have had a more lasting meaning than we knew. So reports Bloomberg.

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