While getting input from key stakeholders is important, as a leader you aso need to remain in the driver’s seat.

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My favorite email client, Airmail, just updated their desktop OS X client to version 3. Check out what’s new and why you should upgrade.

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Elon Musk deserves a great deal of credit for popularizing battery powered cars. Yet there are those who work in far more anonymity than Musk while exerting much greater influence on the long-term future of that business. One of them is Chris Borroni-Bird, who at GM developed the concept for a drive-by-wire platform on which different body types could be mounted, a key component in Tesla’s vehicle architecture.

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If you move, what about taxes? IRS will tax you unless you renounce U.S. citizenship. But you might save state taxes if you’re careful.

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Recently, eBay announced the launch of the first ever virtual reality department store in partnership with Australian retailer Myer. Through this innovation, Australian consumers will get an immersive shopping experience of a Myer store on eBay’s platform, where they can browse more than 12,500 Myer products and buy them online. A specially designed virtual reality viewer called “shoptical” will be needed to view products under this technology. The company has created “eBay Sight Search” which shoppers can user to select items by holding their gaze on them for a few seconds, thus eliminating the need for hand controlled devices to add items to the shopping basket. Virtual reality is being touted as the future of the online retail experience and eBay is an early entrant into this space. Whether this new shopping experience will attract more buyers or increase conversion rates remains to be seen.

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Alibaba‘s online movie ticketing platform, Taobao Movie, is part of its Hong Kong listed entity Alibaba Pictures. Recently, it raised $ 260 million in fresh financing and was valued at $ 2.1 billion during this round of fund raising. This is a significant increase in its valuation, which stood at $ 266 million five months ago, as valued by an independent appraiser. Taobao Movie was launched in 2014 and merged with Alibaba Pictures last year as part of a deal with its parent company, The Alibaba Group. While Alibaba Pictures claims that Taobao Movie covers more than 5,000 Chinese cinemas accounting for 95% of the country’s box office revenues, it faces tough competition in the cash burning Chinese online movie ticket market. Estimates put Taobao Movie’s market share at less than 10%, in a market whose overall size is less than 15% of Alibaba’s GMV (gross merchandise value) for fiscal year 2016. While online movie ticketing is a promising business in China, this segment will not drive any significant revenues for Alibaba over the short term, in our view.

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Microsoft has another way to push people to Windows 10 – it’s killing Windows Live Mail.

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At a recent congressional hearing, an Ohio lawmaker seemed pretty upset with a coal mining regulator, who said that President Obama was costing his state jobs. The congressman was unsettled over a proposal that would forbid surface mining within a certain distance of streams.

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