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Once again, it took Apple just a few years to catch up to Amazon and Google.

Last March 10, the financial world was shocked when the world's largest hedge fund announced it would add an unexpected addition to its ranks: Ray Dalio's Bridgewater announced the appointment of an hardware engineer, former NeXT and Apple executive Jon Rubinstein, as co-CEO of the massive hedge fund. However, it was not meant to last, and one year later, Jon Rubinstein, the former Apple executive brought in as co-chief executive of Bridgewater, is leaving the hedge fund after less than a year, the FT reported.

Submitted by William Nardi via TheCollegeFix.com,

Be careful what you say at Virginia Tech. Chances are, it could be a microaggression.

Multiple groups at Virginia Tech have collaborated to collect “microaggression testimonials” from students, who came up with roughly 50 different expressions that offend them. The examples are currently displayed on the “Microaggressions: #hokiesspeakup” Facebook page.

Black Friday - the name elevates images of people standing in long lines, fighting the crowds to grab the best bargains of the year, and filling the shopping carts to the rims. But, as FreeShippingCode.com notes, from another perspective Black Friday is the day when retailers try to push their sales to the last limits in order to maximize their profits, i.e. move from red (loss) column to the black (profit).