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Robinhood, the mobile-only online brokerage, was launched in December 2014 with a waitlist of more than 500,000. The company’s mission was to make the financial markets more accessible, primarily by offering commission-free trades, no account minimums, and an easy-to-use mobile app. Company founders Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, Stanford physics …

New 10.1″ high-definition video on JetBlue Airbus A320. Photo credit: JetBlue. Jet Blue Last month Alaska Airlines (ALK) announced a totally refreshed cabin on its Airbus A321 aircraft, featuring such goodies as comfy leather sets from Recaro and high-bandwidth WiFi. Now JetBlue (JBLU) is joining the party, launching an impressive …

With just a few weeks until the end of filing season, Drake Education Tax Team Lead Amanda Watson appeared on the Taxing Subjects Podcast to explain the Child Tax Credit and Other Dependent Credit. We discussed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act-related changes, due diligence requirements, and more. Source link

Every single store uses barcodes that are read by scanners, but did you know you can actually read these barcodes just by looking at them? That’s right: you don’t need any scanner to be able to interpret them! Whether you’re just curious about how your skills match up against the …

Jennifer Bailey VP Apple Pay at Apple.Reuters/Stephen Lam Apple announced its own credit card on Monday, known as Apple Card. Apple Card will have no annual, late, or international fees, and what Apple describes as a low interest rate. The card will also have an easy-to-use app interface, and Apple …

Raven Ashley Holzer and Max Alexander Frankel were married March 23 at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. Rabbi William I. Kuhn officiated. Mrs. Frankel, 32, works in Manhattan as a director of brand marketing at PMK-BNC, a public relations and entertainment marketing agency, where she specializes in …

Jim Cramer chats with Thermo Fisher Scientific CEO Marc Casper about the rise of individualized medicine and where he sees the biotech industry is headed. Source link

The pace at which the cost of college tuition is increasing is not slowing down, and the price of an education at the nation’s more prestigious academies can be particularly daunting for ambitious high school students and their parents. New York University, with its main campus in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, is no exception. …

Duke University will pay $112.5 million to the federal government to settle allegations that researchers submitted applications and reports containing falsified data to win more than two dozen grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency, the Justice Department said on Monday. “Taxpayers expect and deserve …

In January, the IRS announced it was lowering the threshold for applying the estimated tax penalty from 90 percent to 85 percent. This change was designed to shield taxpayers who were getting an unexpected tax bill due to tax reform from also owing a penalty. Last Friday, the IRS said …