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Former Snapchat employee Anthony Pompliano has opposed Snap's motion to seal his lawsuit. He claims that Snap lied to investors about its user metrics.

Snapchat. Snapchat has skyrocketed in the realm of the stock market. The stock is currently worth twenty two dollars and five cents a share. The market capital of the company is twenty six point zero five billion. It has been in the top 100 apps downloaded on the app store for quite a few years now. Almost anyone in their teens to early twenties who has a smart phone has the Snapchat app installed. Even if you do not have the app, you have seen your kids making funny faces and taking many pictures with the various filters. But according to this former employee, Snapchat may be lying about their numbers and current standings. Anthony Pompliano was once a former employee of the company and he claims to have documents showing their numbers differ from the ones presented to investors and to the general public. He claims that he was fired from the company for presenting the numbers he had found. The public will be able to see these documents after they are presented at the trial this Tuesday. He is also was a former employee of Facebook. Pompliano claims that Snapchat originally hired him to gain competitive intelligence on one of their biggest competitors. Facebook stock is worth one hundred forty one dollars and sixty eight cents. According to this employee Snapchat is willing to do anything to get ahead and according to statistics, the company has a lot of growing to do to compare to Facebook.

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The lawsuit accuses Mylan of engaging in a scheme with pharmacy benefit managers to dominate the market.

The pharmaceutical industry has two underlying motives, better the public and making a profit. Some companies truly believe in the betterment of their patients, but Mylan is not one of them. As years pass, the EpiPen’s price has escalated hundreds and hundreds of dollars. A product that costs only thirty dollars to produce, costs the average consumer around three hundred and thirty dollars and twenty five cents. EpiPen is in charge of 95% of the epinephrine auto-injector market. The company is currently being sued for violating Ohio’s consumer protection law. Mylan is also possibly being charged for violating the Corrupt Organizations Act. They are accused of paying off large corporations so they would be favored over their competitors. The organizations that they say were involved with the EpiPen case are CVS Caremark, part of CVS Health; Express Scripts Holding Co and OptumRX, and part of UnitedHealth Group Inc. They are discovering that even more corporations could be involved with this scandal. Since all of these corporations are involved, that is why the case is being treated like organized crime as opposed to white collar crime. There is almost no alternatives to buying the EpiPen. EpiPen makes a “cheap” generic version of the EpiPen for a “discounted” price of three hundred dollars. The woman in charge of Mylan is named Nina Devlin. She has refused to make any comments regarding her case. Hopefully the end result of this case will reduce EpiPen prices so those with severe allergies can be protected for a reasonable price.

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The project could pose major conflict of interest concerns for the president.

I have mixed feelings about this idea and what Trumps real goal is being president. As we all know Trump is the President of the United States but before that he is a successful business man who owns casino and hotels around the country. This article talks about Trump and his right hand man Ruffin talking about making a railroad coming in and out of Vegas and California. Now this has a big impact on the business world because of people seeing how two billionaires invest there money and what there idea is. But this leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Im not going to say i was a Trump supporter but i don't mind him being president. Now saying that i was intrigued when i saw this video because i wonder what Trumps real motives are. I feel like he is still worrying about his business and mixing it in with his power as president. He wants to sign a 5 million dollar bill for this railroad that would help him and Ruffin bring in more business. I think this is great people get to see two great business men figuring ways to make more money but Trump isn't a business man anymore and his attention should go towards other things the country is facing. This is a bad look for Trump but a good perspective for the business world see how they conduct there business.

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Instagram has more than 1 million monthly advertisers, up five times from a year ago, and there are now 8 million business profiles on the app, up about five times since September. The rise in marketers can be attributed in large part to Instagram's focus on catering to small businesses.

This article is amazing, and shows the way marketing has changed drastically in the past decade. At first, I always wondered how Facebook made its money because people would just get to sign up for free. But all along, Instagram, and Facebook built there company to be so popular that business have moved there marketing skills to their company. Companies are now using Facebook and Instagram as a way to advertise their company through social media because they realize there target market is the millennials now. Instagram is making billions off of companies using their website to advertise and this is big for the business world. Now people who are going into their own business have ways that they can reach out to more people through social media to get customers and this changes a lot. At first, I wasn’t a fan of marketing on social media because I feel like a lot of the people on Instagram were young and none potential customers. But now the internet is so big that I believe potential buyers do look online. For myself, I want to advertise my father’s construction company, and what's a better way of doing that then starting with Facebook and Instagram. Think about it, you can upload pictures and even when you’re on the job and you’re trying to sell your work to someone can just see on Instagram or Facebook. This revolutionized way of e-marketing is great for the business world and is the next step to growing small businesses.

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D.C.-based PolitiFact is a key player on Facebook’s fake-news-fighting team following the social media giant’s announcement earlier this month it would be flagging fictitious stories.

As a millennial fake news is one of the things that make me most angry. It just shocks me how our media can purposely lie to gain viewers whether they be unreliable uneducated viewers or educated viewers. Unfortunately i can not but all the blame on the media as our culture as a whole just wants the juiciest most interesting story even if it is full of bull. Thankfully not only is their a group hell bent on fact checking the news in this crazy world but they are even looking to profiting from it. This group is made up of a joint coalition between Politifacts which is a few journalists from the Tampa Bay times and employees at Factcheck.org as well as working with individuals from snopes. The most impressive aspect of this group of social information vigilantes is the fact that they are working together with Facebook. They are working with users and employees of Facebook. Basically they way it works is that as users find articles that they may not trust or seem sketchy they tag them and that is where the fact checkers come in. They dig into the facts and if its is found to be false they will mark it with a disputed tag letting other users know what they think of the article. With the sheer number of fake news articles coming out day by day it is hard to keep up with them. For this reason they are expanding their employee base. While there has been no concrete exchange of money the fact checkers are hopefully that they will strike a deal with Facebook C.E.O Mark Zuckerburg who has been open on his stance against fake news on his website. At the moment the group is funded by the Tampa Bay Times and the revenue they bring in from their website as well as group of benefactors who support the cause. I personally support what this group is doing 100%. As a member of our generation it is very important that groups like this exist to educate people and help inform readers into making rational and fact based opinions.

Susan Wojcicki believes Silicon Valley can break its own bro culture — it just needs the will to do it.

Glass ceilings, is the act of unfairly capping an individual's ability to excel and succeed in a company based on their gender, religion or race. Today glass ceilings are a problem that face not only women and people of color but also our community as a whole as the problems are far reaching and can potentially affect everyone. This can happen by not allowing a high quality employee to reach their full potential by limiting them in their position or access to resources. This is clearly a problem as one of these employees being suppressed can have a life changing innovation that isn't expressed and taken seriously based on their gender or race and religion.

Thankfully not everyone is just sitting back and accepting this aspect of our culture today. The C.E.O of Youtube Susan Wojcicki is taking matters into her own hands to break the cycle of bro culture that has a stranglehold on silicon valley. She has even went as far as laying out a few steps to help break this cycle. Her number one and most obvious step is to hire more women throughout the company whether it be at entry level positions or higher level management. Studies have proven that the more diverse a workforce the more productive it is. Also the more used to companies have to having women in the company the more accustomed they will be to the various needs of a female employee. The next step is to focus on gender diversity, for this she is tasking other C.E.O’s to take the lead by being more flexible and offering paid family leave to accommodate the needs of new and expecting mothers and fathers.

She also wants companies to offer support groups for woman. She wants companies to invest in their female employees. They want them to do this by offering them training and seminars on how to empower themselves in the workforce and how to overcome being discriminated against from basically the start of their careers. The last step she has outlined basically goes hand and hand with the third step and that is for employers to actively empower their female employees and work together with other employers to promote female empowerment along industry standards. As C.E.O of Youtube one of the biggest companies in the world even she has been on the negative side of this problem. She has said that she had to ask other male C.E.O’s in her profession for tickets to exclusive events in her industry. At first she did not think much of it but after a few events and seeing how the tech world was working she decided something had to be done.

As California gets closer to establishing its recreational marijuana market, new investors are being drawn to cannabis company stocks. Here are five things these new investors should know.

This week Los Angeles voters approved of Measure M to create regulations for adult-use marijuana> Doing this sets up Los Angeles to steal the title of marijuana capital from Denver. From this happening, the energy is bringing a whole new group of investors into the pot stock market. When Colorado first legalized marijuana, the pot stock market shot up and this was called the Colorado effect. But one of the problems with these marijuana stocks is that they trade in lockstep with each other. An example of this is if and when the white house press secretary makes negative comments toward the industry, the whole group of the marijuana stocks will drop. Many of these stocks do not trade on their own merit but “swing” with the news and by this happening the market for this is blooming with new entrepreneurs while larger corporations reject this industry because they believe it to be too risky of an investment for them. These new marijuana investors want to keep a couple things in mind when they are thinking about investing in these stocks. You want to read the filings and check the revenue figures to make sure that there is some type of money coming into the stock. Before you buy the stock you want to check some websites to see if the stock shows up as a highly promoted stock or not. You also want to make sure you manage your stock well so that you will be as successful as you can and you want to check the exchange. This relates to our topic, business in social media, because this is a fairly new topic and people need to take precaution when looking into a stock like this. By having an article like this on Forbes.com it helps get out the word about a potential new stock that you can invest in. Everyone invests in stocks and having a new stock to invest in is always interesting to see what happens.

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Bill Gross's "super nova" trade begins.

Investors from Amsterdam and Frankfurt were buying bonds and paying an interest rate of negative 0.01 and they were doing this because they know that those bonds were going to get even more negative. Billions of dollars were being written off as a loss. The rising of long-term sovereign bond yields across the euro zone has contributed to a decline in the outstanding negative yielding sovereign debt. This debt, as of March 1st, is 8.6 trillion dollars compared to the 9.1 trillion near the end of last year. Still, short-term government security yields are still really deep in the negative territory in many European nations. Investors in the short-term euro denominated debt are now facing a nearly impossible task of protecting capital in a money losing bet without taking on big risks in order to make up for all of the losses that are most likely going to happen. This article relates to business in social media because this particular article was posted in the Forbes website to get the word out about how there was trillions of dollars disappearing from Europe’s negative bond market. It is important to know what is happening with business around the world. You should not just know what is happening around you, but you should also know what is happening around the world. For a business person this is very important to keep in mind. Just because something is not happening around you does not mean that it will not affect you and your business or your companies business.

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Google has made a massive leap in its efforts to sign up mobile operators and device manufacturers to its Rich Communications Services

Texting. We all do it. We as millennials grew up with texting. The original texting was called SMS or Short Message Service. We used to use SMS to text using our Motorola Razrs. As time went on, we moved onto the Apple iPhone with iMessage instead. But Google has a new and improved form of messaging called RCS or Rich Communications Services, that could possibly put iMessage to shame. But at the same time there is high possibility of failure. Google is a little late to join the messaging service market. We are already so familiar with the many apps we have and the wonderful functionality of iMessage. There are so many apps already out there that our generation uses to chat. Some examples are Kik, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, GroupMe, WeChat, and etc. All of these apps are free and easily accessible. WhatsApp is the most commonly used chatting app for android users on a global scale. The new RCS messaging will incorporate many of the features from these other apps. RCS messaging will hopefully help Androids compete with iMessage, so Androids can help form a loyalty similar to that of Apple customers. Google claims that the new messaging platform with have an even higher resolution for photos and video calling. According to this article 27 companies will begin using RCS in the near future. The next generation is going to make SMS and iMessage a thing of the past. Google is always able to impress and conquer with their continuous innovation.

#mktg331012017 #Google #Business #innovation #texting #rcs #wolfofeaststreet

"Given the declining growth rate and aging US labor pool, cutting off the flow of immigrants could lead to a drop in both economic potential and dynamism."

Since Trump has gotten into office, there has been a lot of changes in our economy. Currently the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been up about fourteen percent. It is on the brink of reaching all time highs for consecutive increase. But is this spike in the economy going to lead us to a downward spiral? A few months prior to October 29, 1929, The Great Stock Market Crash, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had the same streak of 12 consecutive days. Erik Weisman states in the article above that Trump’s plans for tariffs and building the wall will help in the decline from our current peak. One of Trump’s main targets in his quest to “Make America Great Again” is Mexico. Many of the workers coming from Mexico are younger and help make up a large portion of our workforce. The average worker born in the United States tends to be significantly older than our Mexican counter parts. Through various studies it is proven that a younger work force is more productive. Therefore we are weakening our workforce by making it harder for Mexicans to work here. Trump is also attempting to increase tariffs on imported goods. One of the United state’s top importers is once again Mexico. The risk of higher tariffs on our imports could increase tariffs globally. If Trump is capable of slowing down the process of executing these plans, the outcome may not be a recession. But since he has been executing plans so quickly, we are most likely going to decline twice as fast.

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Ring founder Jamie Siminoff got rejected from Shark Tank. Now, he has raised $209 million.

If I had to find article that represents what our blogs are direct towards and why knowing what’s going on in the business world is a great motivation factors. It’s this article. Jamie Siminoff got rejected by Sharks and even had a bad remark from one of them that didn't stop him there. He kept his business going, and now through motivation. He has one of the most successful business in the world today. This is what business media is all about, learning ways to get motivated every day and being successful. This article represents that in every way. The way Mr. Siminoff got embarrassed basically on TV and the way he just took it as motivation. Our group wants everyone to embrace that motivation every day in the business field and want everyone to keep up with what’s going on in the business world. Just to know what kind of stories in the business field happen every day. It’s a great learning lesson for everyone when you see stories like this. In business, usually everyone sets a goal for themselves and the key to succeed is to reach that goal. Jamie showed that his goal from the time when he was on shark tank to where he is now is to just succeed. This ties in to business media because people should be able to know about stories like this and that why business media is important to me and the people around media and I hope to see stories like this more often.

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Three years ago, 27-year-old Kimra Luna was on food stamps. Today she’s making seven figures with her online business. Here are three of her top tips that can help you face your fears and find your freedom.

This article really stands for what our group goal is and what we are trying to influence people of the business world. Business media is a really important aspect to people trying to become successful in the business world and this article really shows how we are trying to motivate people to succeed. This article is about a girl who was poor and became a millionaire by using her creation and mind. I want people to know about this in the business field because it represents that anyone can become successful if you put your mind to it. This is important to people in business media because this is a great motivation for people trying to start their own business. It shows to never give up and you can become whatever you want be in life. Through business media we can motive people in the business world to follow their dream and this is why I believe this article is representing what people should believe in and to believe in themselves. I chose this article because to me I believe the only way for people to succeed is to have motivation. Stories like this really help people who are looking to become successful in the business field change their aspect of life. These are the kind of post that motivate me in the business field to follow your dreams and you can become anything you want to be an I hope that gets out to the people who read this.

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Our goal is to discuss business trends that will have strong influences on our economy as a whole. We want to use blogs to represent the business aspect and show ethical ways businesses run their business. We are going to keep our blog relevant by keeping up with the latest business trends so we can make sure our goal is met by keeping people kept up to date with the biggest trends in business. Each week we will find new and relevant articles that shows business in social media and the effects it has on the people. As different group members post different articles each week it will show different opinions on how we think business media is important. Our goal is to show ethical standards to the people of the business world through our blog and through the business media.

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