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Have you ever been sitting on a “pile of cash”? How long did it take you to decide what to do with it? Psh. It doesn’t matter. You never had 97 Billion dollars in reserves, like technology conglomerate and design masters Apple. Yep, you heard it right. building for cheap, and selling for what a lot consider high has made Apple this unbelievable amount of cash reserve. You really need to think Scrooge McDuck’s money bin.
This is quite a bog deal in the technology, and sales/retail industry in general. Tomorrow morning, bright and early there’s a press conference at 8:00 AM central time that you can listen in on, where Apple CEO Tim Cook, and their CFO Peter Oppenheimer will discuss what they’re gonna do with this big fat bag of cash. Acquiring companies or technology? Passing it out among stockholders? Donating to worthy causes? It has all been speculated, but nothing will be sure until the phone conference. Are you interested in hearing from the mouth of the men themselves where the greenbacks are going? Here’s the info you need to listen in:
The live phone press conference starts at 8am central time/6am pacific.9am eastern. Call (877) 616-0063 toll-free or (719) 219-0041 local. Conference code is #592016. What? You’re too lazy for that? There will be a phone conference “replay” at 10am central time/12pm eastern time, and 8am pacific time at (877) 616-0063 toll-free and (719) 219-0041 local. Punch in 6274937 to listen in on the rebroadcast of the call. Stay tuned for the innovating, and probably surprising decisions!
A year of surprisingly amazing movies was wrapped up by an equally shocking night at the 84th Academy Awards. Upsets, expectations, J-Lo’s nipple, and Angelina Jolie’s leg were the centers of this event to be sure. Were you busy knitting, or hiding from your crazy ex to watch the Oscars? You can get a full list of the winners, acceptance speeches, the nights best gags, and the Memorial tribute of those who’ve passed in the last year right here.
Do you want to see what everyone was wearing? Have money down on who was going to wear the weird stuff this year? See the pictures to collect your wacky wagers here.
This week, Google has said they’ll pony up a total of $1,000,000 dollars to the people that can crack the fabled “sandbox” security of their web browser/OS, Google Chrome. Offering prize money in the range of $20,000 to $60,000 during the Pwn2Own contest. Pwn2Own focuses on people who can remotely “hack”, and take control of computers that are running up-to-date internet browsers, and other web-based software.
Last year, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, and even the vaunted Apple Safari were successfully hacked into, whereas Chrome stands tall above its competition. ”While we’re proud of Chrome’s leading track record in past competitions, the fact is that not receiving exploits means that it’s harder to learn and improve,” wrote Chris Evans and Justin Schuh, 2 guys that are part of Google Security. “To maximize our chances of receiving exploits this year, we’ve upped the ante. We will directly sponsor up to $1 million worth of rewards.”
However, an issue that Google has with the contest, is that the contest rules have been changed, to where the winners do not have to “show their work” (it isn’t long division, TRUST ME). This means contestants are not required to reveal the vulnerabilities in the systems that they crack, which caused Google to withdraw as a sponsor, but is still daring the coding and hacking community to attack their software.
Pwn2Own starts Wednesday, March 7th. Watch your stuff.
Upon meeting the statuesque, effervescent blonde — dressed to the nines with blinding bling on her fingers — one might think “Secret Millionaire” Dani Johnson has always had it all.
But Johnson — business owner, author, life coach and one of the charitable millionaires featured in ABC’s reality TV hit last spring — will quickly dissuade you.
“My parents never worked. My mother and father neglected us, with the television on 24-7 while they were drinking or on cocaine, and beating the crap out of us. I had to go through some hard knocks,” says the 42-year-old Texas native, who was in town recently to promote her new book.
First Steps to Wealth (Call to Freedom Intl., 299 pages, paperback) is an intriguing manual purporting to teach downtrodden Americans the “12 Laws of Success” that helped Johnson get where she is, and how to get free of debt. It’s free for the asking, at Dani Johnson.com
Johnson was featured in the launch of “Secret Millionaire,” a series where some of America’s most successful, self-made millionaires leave their wealth for a week to live in a poverty-stricken area — at the end, gifting $100,000 or more of their own money to unsung community heroes they find.
It triggered a media gabfest on Johnson’s personal story, subsequently shared from Oprah’s couch.
Raised by drug-addicted, welfare-dependent parents, in a home with all manner of child abuse present, Johnson was pregnant by 17, and found herself evicted and homeless at age 21.
Astonishingly, Johnson earned her first million dollars by age 23.
Today, she’s the multimillionaire owner of Call to Freedom Intl. and other companies in marketing consulting, publishing, and life coaching. She also runs the nonprofit King’s Ransom Foundation.
“My parents groomed me to fail financially, emotionally, relationally and socially,” the mother of five writes. “It doesn’t matter what kind of a start you had. All that matters is how you finish.”
At 21, suicidal and living out of her car, she was down to $2.03 to her name, Johnson writes, when she underwent a spiritual awakening. Led to try her hand at sales, Johnson, through trial and error, perfected her sales skills to accumulate her first $1 million in two years.
Over the next decade, however, she’d go broke again many times.
“There’s three things you need to know about money: how to make it, which most people know, how to keep it, which most people don’t have a clue on, and how to turn it into your slave,” she says.
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Source: http://www.suntimes.com/business/7560137-417/secret-millionaire-dani-johnson-inspired-to-share-her-path-to-success.html
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