Apex United Corporation is hosting a fundraiser with Ocean Partnership for Children. Take a selfie in Downtown Toms River, NJ and use the hashtag #ApexUnited. For every selfie with the hashtag, Apex United Corporation will donate $1 to Ocean Partnership for Children up to $10,000. Fred Bernard said, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Now until December 31, 2018, your picture can be enough to help feed and clothe the children of Ocean County, NJ. Basically, 10,000 selfies are valued at $10,000 in donations to help provide for our community. Please keep in mind that your post or page needs to be public (in case you have it private) so everyone can see and keep a tally of all the selfies provided by participants. As you may know, there are a lot of children…
Over this past weekend, Microsoft made a deal to acquire GitHub. To those of which know what GitHub is, and to those who don’t. GitHub is a large code repository that has become very popular with developers/companies who work and share projects, documentation, and code. There are roughly 80 million repositories hosted on GitHub and about 30 million developers who contribute to them – this is Microsoft’s second biggest purchase since the acquisition of LinkedIn for $26 Billion back in 2016, and Minecraft for $2.5 Billion in 2012. Microsoft is paying $7.5 billion in stock for GitHub in a deal that should close towards the end of 2018. In general GitHub, hasn’t scaled well due to its community issues, and because of that, there are legitimate concerns that Microsoft will need to address. Due to…
We all know first impressions are extremely important. When you meet someone for the first time, they will have formed an opinion of you within the first few seconds of meeting you based on your appearance and demeanor. Everyone does it regardless if they’re aware because it’s a part of human nature. These same subconscious judgements are made when someone visits your website, and if a user is not engaged in an aesthetically pleasing design it can be the deciding factor between them reading more and closing the tab. Clarity is Key. Clarity is crucial when it comes to your website functionality and design. If the user must consciously work to navigate your page or uncover what you do, it breaks the immersion and pulls their attention away from your content. Your landing page is…
To shake things up for the week I plan on talking about pollution, specifically the ocean. There are people in today’s age that don’t understand how bad pollution and littering can be. Inevitably, they just can’t be bothered to take the extra minute to sort/throw away their waste properly. Whether it’s simply tossing out a cigarette filter on the ground, mixing up recycling in the trash, or illegal waste dumping, unfortunately a large portion of it accumulates in our ocean – which doesn’t have the ability to clean itself. According to a 2017 research article, 1.15 to 2.41 million tons of plastic are entering the ocean each year. More than half of this plastic will not sink once it encounters the sea, it will then float in the ocean endlessly until it is removed. Our…
Tuesday morning, May 15, 2018, the yield on the 10-year Treasury Bond has risen to 3.067% from April’s rise of 30.3 – reaching the highest rate in 7 years. In trend with the 10-year yield, the 2-yield has risen to 2.568% – which is its highest rate since the economic recession in 2008. Future contracts are forecasting the central bank will raise the benchmark rate a fourth time this year, furcating a 51% likeliness of the increase by the Fed. Due to erosion of purchasing power on fixed payments, rising inflation is a direct threat to Treasury prices resulting in the rise on bond rates. Normally, such moves in yield rates would have came early after an economic recovery but never transpired when the U.S. economy recovery began many years ago. Photo: USA Today
